Twitter puts strict cap on how many tweets users can read each day

[Joystiq]

Twitter has begun aggressively limiting how many tweets users can view per day. On Saturday afternoon, Elon Musk

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the company would restrict unverified accounts to reading 600 posts per day, and new accounts to only 300 tweets daily. Meanwhile, Twitter will allow verified accounts to read 6,000 posts each day.

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, that means short of paying for

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, they will be able to spend about a minute or two on Twitter before encountering a "rate limit exceeded" error.

Musk claimed the "temporary" limits were put in place to address "extreme levels of data scraping" and "system manipulation." The day before, Twitter began preventing people who aren't logged in

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.

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)

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