© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, gestures while attending the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, June 16, 202
(Reuters) – Chief Executive Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform on Saturday that Twitter limits the number of tweets that different accounts can read per day, to discourage “extreme levels” of data collection and system manipulation.
Verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, Musk said, adding that unverified accounts will be limited to 600 posts per day with new unverified accounts capped at 300.
Musk said in a separate Twitter post that the temporary reading limit will soon increase to 8,000 posts per day for verified users, 800 posts per day for unverified users and 400 posts per day for new unverified users. outlet.
Previously, Twitter announced that it would require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move Musk on Friday called a “temporary emergency measure.”
Musk said that hundreds of organizations or more were scraping Twitter data “very aggressively,” which affected the user experience.
Musk has previously expressed his displeasure with AI companies such as OpenAI, owner of ChatGPT, for using Twitter data to train its large language models.
The social media platform has previously taken a number of steps to win back advertisers who left Twitter under Musk’s ownership and to increase subscription revenue by making verification check tags part of the Twitter Blue program.