(Reuters) -Twitter is limiting what number of tweets per day numerous accounts can learn, to discourage “excessive ranges” of knowledge scraping and system manipulation, Govt Chair Elon Musk stated in a publish on the social media platform on Saturday.

Verified accounts had been initially restricted to studying 6,000 posts a day, Musk stated, including that unverified accounts will probably be restricted to 600 posts a day with new unverified accounts restricted to 300.

The momentary studying limitation was later elevated to 10,000 posts per day for verified customers, 1,000 posts per day for unverified and 500 posts per day for brand new unverified customers, Musk stated in a separate publish with out offering additional particulars.

Beforehand, Twitter had introduced it can require customers to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a transfer that Musk on Friday known as a “momentary emergency measure.”

Musk had stated that a whole bunch of organizations or extra had been scraping Twitter knowledge “extraordinarily aggressively”, impacting person expertise.

Musk had earlier expressed displeasure with synthetic intelligence corporations like OpenAI, the proprietor of ChatGPT, for utilizing Twitter’s knowledge to coach their massive language fashions.

Twitter was down for 1000’s of customers on Saturday morning, in accordance with outage monitoring web site Downdetector.com.

Practically 7,500 customers throughout the social media platform reported points with accessing the app in the course of the peak of the outage at round 11:17 AM ET.

The social media platform had beforehand taken quite a few steps to win again advertisers who left Twitter beneath Musk’s possession and to spice up subscription income by making verification verify marks part of the Twitter Blue program.