Twitter Weekend Chaos Follows Sudden Tweet Viewing Limits
Elon Musk imposes strict daily viewing limits on Twitter users to combat data scraping, causing widespread disruptions. The social network repeatedly adjusts the restrictions while remaining silent on when the chaos will end.
Twitter experiences a chaotic weekend after owner and CTO Elon Musk imposes strict daily limits on how many tweets users can view. Musk claims the sudden restrictions are necessary to combat extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation, initially capping unverified users at 600 posts per day, new accounts at 400, and verified users at 6,000.
The platform rapidly adjusts these thresholds multiple times within hours, eventually raising the limits to 10,000 for verified accounts, 1,000 for unverified users, and 500 for new accounts. Despite these changes, it remains unclear if the updated limits are fully active or when the platform plans to lift the restrictions entirely.
This disruption follows other aggressive actions by Musk, including blocking non-logged-in users from viewing tweets and heavily increasing API prices to force AI companies to pay for data. Twitter provides no official clarification on the situation, responding to press inquiries with only a poop emoji as the platform struggles under its new leadership structure.