Musk puts temporary reading limits on Twitter to stop data scrapping

Twitter owner Elon Musk on Saturday announced that the microblogging platform has imposed some ‘temporary limits’.

The move came amid reports of many users complaining of an outage. Many users said that they were receiving error messages on their timelines like ‘cannot retrieve tweets’ and ‘rate limit exceeded’.

Musk wrote in a tweet, “To address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation, we have applied temporary limits.”

Musk said that verified accounts on the microblogging platform are limited to reading 6,000 tweets per day, whereas, unverified accounts can read only 600 tweets in a day. Musk also mentioned that the new verified accounts can read up to 300 posts per day.