Twitter Imposes Temporary Rate Limits to Combat AI Scraping and Bots
Twitter restricts how many posts users can view daily in an effort to block data scraping and eliminate bad actors. The sudden limits cause widespread frustration just as Meta prepares to launch its Threads app.
Twitter actively restricts the number of posts users can view per day as part of a new effort to combat data scraping and bot manipulation. Unverified users face a strict cap of 1,000 posts daily, while Twitter Blue subscribers see a higher limit of 10,000 posts. New unverified accounts experience an even tighter restriction of just 500 posts per day.
The company states that these extreme measures are necessary to remove spam and prevent external entities from scraping public data to build AI models. Twitter claims the temporary slowdown helps detect bad actors who manipulate conversations, arguing that advance notice of this crackdown would allow malicious accounts to evade detection.
This sudden disruption frustrates many users who encounter "rate limit exceeded" error messages while trying to read tweets. The timing of these temporary limitations is particularly challenging for the platform, as it coincides with the imminent launch of Meta's competing social media app, Threads.