In a recent post on Twitter, Executive Chair Elon Musk revealed that Twitter is taking steps to discourage excessive data scraping and system manipulation by limiting the number of tweets various accounts can read per day. Musk stated that verified accounts will have a temporary limitation of 6,000 posts per day, while unverified accounts will be limited to 600 posts per day. Additionally, new unverified accounts will have a daily limit of 300 posts.

Musk further said that these temporary reading limitations will soon be increased 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.

This comes after Twitter's new chief executive, Linda Yaccarino, is reportedly working on a slew of measures to bring back advertisers who left the platform under Elon Musk's ownership, including introducing a video ads service, pursuing more celebrities and raising headcount.

Musk, in another tweet, again increased the reading limitations to 10,000, 1,000 and 500 posts per day for verified, unverified and new unverified users.

Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023

However, he did not provide specific details regarding the timeline for implementing these changes. This decision follows Twitter's recent announcement that users will need to have an account on the platform to view tweets - what Musk referred to as a "temporary emergency measure" in a tweet on Friday.

Musk expressed concerns about the aggressive data scraping practices employed by numerous organisations, which have negatively impacted the user experience on Twitter. He had previously expressed dissatisfaction with artificial intelligence firms, including OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, for utilising Twitter's data to train their large language models.

Backlash against Twitter restrictions

Several users took to the micro-blogging site to display their discontentment against Musk's decision.

Twitter and Teslas are now the same… Can only use them for a short distance before they shut down.