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Twitter CEO Elon Musk continues to blame the social media site’s new limitations on “data scrapers & system manipulation” as he announced new “temporary” limits on how many posts people can read.
Now unverified accounts will only be able to see 600 posts per day, and for new unverified accounts, just 300 in a day. The limitations are being applied one day after Twitter suddenly started blocking access for anyone who isn’t logged in, which Musk claimed was necessary because “Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience.”
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary…