Twitter is limiting how many tweets per day various accounts can read, to discourage “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation, Executive Chair Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform on Saturday (Jul 1). Verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day,
Verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, Musk said, adding that the unverified accounts will be limited to 600 posts a day with new unverified accounts limited to 300. Musk had said that hundreds of organisations or more were scraping Twitter data “extremely aggressively”, impacting user experience.
