Elon Musk blamed artificial intelligence startups for imposing restrictions on reading tweets
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has blamed new restrictions on the social network for companies that use artificial intelligence to collect "huge amounts of data".
Here's What We Know
On 1 July, Musk introduced restrictions on the number of tweets users could read. Verified accounts could view 6,000 messages a day, unverified ones 600, and new ones 300.
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we've applied the following temporary limits:
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day
Soon the limits were increased to 10,0000, 1,000, and 500 tweets per day respectively.
Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
The restrictions come a day after Twitter suddenly started blocking access for unregistered users. According to Musk, this was done because of "Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively". According to him, this was severely affecting the user experience.
In addition, Musk "accused" users of being Twitter addicts and urged them "to go outside".
The reason I set a "View Limit" is because we are all Twitter addicts and need to go outside.
- Elon Musk (Parody) (@ElonMuskAOC) July 1, 2023
I'm doing a good deed for the world here.
Also, that's another view you just used.
Source: The Verge.
