If your Twitter has been acting funky this morning, it appears that it’s by design.
Twitter owner and chairman Elon Musk announced on Saturday that due to “extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation,” the social media platform will begin limiting how many posts an account can see in a single day.
Twitter users began noticing on Saturday morning that they were being notified of a “rate limited” being “exceeded” when updating their feed and searching for information on the platform.
While some figured it could be a technical glitch (as has become an issue on the platform since Musk took over), Musk shared in a post on Saturday that it is indeed a temporary function installed to combat the issues he raised.
Verified accounts (including those that pay for Twitter Blue) were limited to reading 6000 posts a day, while established unverified accounts (the bulk of users on the platform) were limited to 600 posts a day.
If you start a Twitter account and are unverified, you were said to be limited to 300 posts a day.
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
– Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
– Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
– New unverified accounts to 300/day— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
The move seemed to reward those who were subscribed to Twitter’s premium services in how many tweets they could see per day on the platform as opposed to those who use the service without any fees.
Later in the day after uproar of the decision spread on the platform, Musk made slight adjustments to the post availabilities.
Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
It is unknown when this temporary post access limit will be lifted.