Restrictions to Eliminate Data Mining and System Manipulation

American billionaire Elon Musk said in a tweet today, Saturday, that the Twitter platform has imposed temporary restrictions on the reading of messages to eliminate “extreme levels of data mining and system manipulation.”

Limitations for Verified and Unverified Accounts

Musk explained that the platform has placed time limits on verified accounts that allow them to read a maximum of 6,000 posts per day, adding that unverified accounts will be allowed to read 600 posts per day, and the maximum limit for new unverified accounts is 300 posts in a day.

Temporary Emergency Measure

The move comes after the platform announced that users would need to have accounts on it to be able to view tweets, in what Musk called on Friday a “temporary emergency measure.”

Impact on User Experience

Musk said that hundreds of organizations or more are “very aggressively” clearing Twitter data, which is impacting the user experience. Musk has previously expressed dissatisfaction with artificial intelligence companies such as OpenAI, owner of chatbot ChatGPT, for using Twitter data.