Twitter owner and chairman Elon Musk infuriated plenty of the website’s users on Saturday by implementing a surprise temporary limit on how many posts users could read in a given day.
A strange message of “rate limit exceeded” started to appear on people’s Twitter feeds early Saturday, accompanied by Musk sharing that “extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation” had forced the company into limiting how many posts a user could see in a day.
Twitter Blue subscribers and other verified accounts would be able to view 6,000 posts a day, while unverified accounts would be limited to 600 posts a day. New unverified accounts would be held to 300 posts a day.
Musk later made slight amendments to that number seemingly in response to the outcry.
Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
While Musk said the blockages were temporary, many Twitter users openly wondered if this was the beginning of the end for the controversial social media platform.
As you can guess, there was also plenty of anger to go around, primarily sent Musk’s way for initiating the limits in the first place.