Twitter’s reading limits: Genius or disastrous?

Twitter owner Elon Musk returned with yet another announcement on Saturday – this time limiting post visibility for users to curb “data scraping and system manipulation”.

While it caused much consternation among users, industry experts said it is a sound business move, which may help the microblogging platform save on cloud bills whilst prompting users towards a verification badge.

Late on Saturday night, India time, Musk tweeted that verified accounts were being temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, unverified accounts were capped at reading 600 posts a day and new unverified accounts at 300 a day. He later increased the limit to 10,000, 1000, and 500 posts, respectively.