Elon Musk, CEO of the social network Twitter, reported that the platform will limit the number of tweets per day that can be read by various accounts, to discourage “extreme levels” of data extraction and manipulation of the system. Twitter had previously announced that it will require users to have an account on the platform to view tweets, a move Musk called a “temporary emergency measure.”
Twitter is limiting the number of tweets per day that multiple accounts can read, to discourage “extreme levels” of data mining and manipulation of the system, Chief Executive Elon Musk said Saturday, July 1, in a post on the platform. social networks.
Verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 8,000 posts per day, Musk said, adding that unverified accounts will be limited to 800 posts per day and new unverified accounts to 400.
Formerly Twitter had announced that will require users to have an account on the social networking platform to view the tweets, a measure that Musk described last Friday, June 30, as a “temporary emergency measure.”
Rate limits increasing soon to 8000 for verified, 800 for unverified & 400 for new unverified https://t.co/fuRcJLifTn
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
Musk said hundreds of organizations or more were mining data from Twitter “extremely aggressively,” affecting the user experience.
He had also previously expressed his displeasure with artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, for using Twitter data to train their large language models.
The social media platform had previously taken a series of steps to win back advertisers who left Twitter under Musk’s ownership, and to boost subscription revenue by making checkmarks part of the Twitter Blue program.
With information from Reuters
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