Twitter Limits Users to Number of Tweets to Read Per Day

Micro-blogging platform, Twitter has restricted different kind of users to the number of tweets they can read in a day.

Owner of Twitter, Elon Musk,  in a tweet on Saturday, said the move was to address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation.

He said Twitter would temporarily limit verified accounts owners to reading 6,000 posts per day, while unverified accounts would be limited to reading 600 posts day.

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Data scraping refers to a process that sees information pulled out of a website and imported into another programme. Musk did not give further details, or explain what was meant by system manipulation in this context.

Musk later added that the reading limits would “soon” rise to 800 tweets per day for unverified accounts, 400 for new unverified accounts and 8,000 for verified accounts.

On Friday, those trying to access Twitter were told they had to login to view the content. The move was a “temporary emergency measure”, Mr Musk said at the time.

He claimed that the social media platform was “getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users”.