Twitter suffers outages after Elon Musk imposes 'temporary emergency' limits on reading tweets

Twitter users ran into service issues on Saturday after owner Elon Musk imposed limits on how many tweets can be read per day. Tech mogul and Twitter owner Elon Musk has imposed temporary limits on the number of posts users can read in a day – restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the site.According to a tweet on the billionaire’s own Twitter account, verified users will be able to view 10,000 tweets per day, while unverified profiles will only be allowed to see 1,000. The number decreases further for new unverified accounts that will be able to view just 500.On Saturday, he announced a much lower figure, initially limiting most users to viewing 600 tweets a day before updating the figure twice via tweets on his profile.Thousands of people logged complaints about problems accessing Twitter on Saturday after the announcement. More than 7,500 people at one point reported problems using the social media service based on complaints registered on Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages.Although that’s a relatively small number of Twitter’s more than 200 million worldwide users, the trouble was widespread enough to cause the #TwitterDown hashtag to trend in some
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