NEW DELHI: Twitter on Saturday temporarily limited the amount of posts a user can read daily, announced Elon Musk."To address extreme levels of data scraping - system manipulation, weve applied the following temporary limits: Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day, Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day, New unverified accounts to 300/day," Musk said on Twitter.On Friday, Twitter blocked people from viewing tweets and profiles on its website unless they are signed in to the social media site.Users who try to view content on the platform will be asked to sign up for an account or log into an exiting account to see their favourite tweets.
"We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!" Musk said in a tweet.Earlier in the month, Twitter had announced plans to focus on video, creator and commerce partnerships to revitalize the social media company's business beyond digital advertising.Twitter has also begun charging users to access its application programming interface (API), used by third-party apps and researchers.