While several Twitter users were faced with the “rate limit exceeded” message on Saturday morning, which was preventing new releases from being displayed, CEO Elon Musk explained this new measure in a tweet.
The billionaire states that “in order to counteract extreme data analysis (data scraping) and system manipulations” the number of publications visible per day will be “temporarily” limited.
Accounts that have subscribed and verified the Twitter Blue service can therefore only see 6,000 publications per day, while for those who do not, the rate is limited to just 600 per day.
New accounts created starting Saturday are limited to 300 tweets per day.
To counteract the extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation, we have introduced the following temporary restrictions:
– Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts per day
– Unverified accounts up to 600 posts/day
– New unverified accounts up to 300/day— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
The CEO did not provide any further information on the end date of this so-called temporary measure or on the reasons that prompted him to implement it.