Twitter users unable to view tweets: What Elon Musk's new 'rate limit' is – The Indian Express

Thousands of people logged complaints about problems accessing Twitter on Saturday, July 1, after Musk limited most users to viewing 600 tweets a day — restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the site. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)Several thousand Twitter users have complained about being unable to view tweets, later revealed to be a result of a new temporary policy from platform owner Elon Musk. The number of tweets that each user can see in a day will now be restricted, termed “rate limits”, Musk said in a tweet on Saturday (July 1). “To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits: – Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day – Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day – New unverified accounts to 300/day,” Musk tweeted. To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits: – Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day – Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day – New unverified accounts to 300/day — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023 A few hours later, he tweeted an update, saying, “Rate limits increasing soon to 8000 for
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