Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk announced this Sunday (2/7) a new change to the daily view limits on the platform. Since Saturday, the platform has started limiting the number of posts users can see per day. In the initial announcement, unverified users could see 400 posts per day, but that number rose to a whopping 600 posts in a second release. This limit has now been increased to 1,000.
Musk justified the adjustment as an attempt to curb “extreme levels” of data collection, as many organizations were collecting information “extremely aggressively,” detracting from the user experience.
New view limits
According to the update, the new read limits on the platform are:
Verified accounts: up to 10,000 posts per day;
Unverified accounts: up to 1,000 posts per day;
New unverified accounts: Up to 500 posts per day.
Verified accounts may read more tweets daily due to their relevance or the fact that they are subscribed to Twitter Blue, the paid version of the social network.
Criticisms of Aggressive Data Collection
Musk explained that the daily reading limit was introduced to combat the “excessive use” of the platform’s resources by bots, such as ChatGPT, which are trained by harvesting large amounts of data from the internet. This practice can lead to increased infrastructure costs for the platform.
The tycoon has been explicit in his criticism of the companies that develop these robots. In December, he accused OpenAI of using Twitter data to train his AI models.
The billionaire has announced plans to take legal action against those who misused Twitter’s data, expecting a potential court showdown in 2-3 years.
Impact on service
While implementing these changes, Twitter experienced crashes for thousands of users, as reported by the website Downdetector. The outage appears to have affected around 7,500 users at the height of the issue.
These changes come amid a series of measures Twitter has taken to try to win back advertisers and grow subscription revenue. One of these measures includes increasing the number of Twitter Blue program subscribers, who pay to have an improved version of Twitter and reach more readers.
Source: Terra
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