Twitter sets some per-day limits for reading tweets to "address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation"
Thousands of Twitter users across the globe reported facing issues on Saturday as its chief executive officer (CEO) announced some new limits on Twitter posts a user can read per day.
The microblogging platform, Twitter, on Saturday night was
inaccessible to thousands of users as they complained of facing issues while
using the social networking website, Downdetector reported.
More
than 7,000 users across the world reported that they cannot access the
platform, according to Downdetector, which reports outages of websites and
platforms. Out of the total, over 5,000 complaints were reported from the
United Kingdom alone.
Users in other countries — including Pakistan, India, Saudi
Arabia, Singapore, Turkiye and Germany — also reported facing problems with
Elon Musk's platform.
They complained that the platform was
unable to load tweets, with many only able to see posts from Friday
evening.
The cause of the crash was not immediately clear. Twitter Inc
has not directly commented on the matter yet.
According to an
online usage tracker, Twitter saw a huge spike in outages at around 8am
Eastern Time Saturday.
Taking to his official Twitter handle,
Musk revealed that Twitter has set some per day limits for reading tweets to
"address extreme levels of data scraping and system
manipulation".
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day
A day earlier, the billionaire wrote on the microblogging site
that “this platform hit another all-time high in user-seconds last
week.”
This platform hit another all-time high in user-seconds last week
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 30, 2023
According to Downdetector, a Twitter outage was also reported
in May with more than 3,600 incidents of people reporting issues with the
microblogging platform.
In February it was also reported that
many Twitter users were unable to tweet, follow accounts or access their
direct messages.
