Twitter owner ElonMusk announced Saturday that the platform will begin setting limits on how many tweets can be read per day. Musk clarified that the limits are temporary and are meant 'to address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation.'
Musk clarified that the limitations will be temporary and are meant"to address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation" on Twitter. It appears to have already gone into effect and even applies to replies to a user's tweet.To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:- New unverified accounts to 300/day"Verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts/day.
Data scraping involved collecting information online and aggregating it into a spreadsheet separate from the original website it was gathered from. Fellow social media platform Facebook filed a lawsuit in 2020 against two companies that installed extensions that scraped names, birthdays, and other sensitive data.
This broke Twitter for me, making it impossible for me to engage as I have for years. I *post* from a dedicated, logged-in session because there is no alternative, but as a target of state surveillance orders, I *read* via anon sessions on a diff VM. Now I can't.… https://t.co/bPx2IrsV7i"I couldn’t even imagine a more effective way of killing this app aside from just shutting it down outright," streamer Charlie, otherwise known as Moist Critical, tweeted.
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