Twitter is limiting the number of tweets that can be read per day to prevent "extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation," said Executive Chair Elon Musk.
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Data scraping
Musk claimed hundreds of organizations were "extremely aggressively" scraping Twitter data, which was negatively impacting user experience.
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Outage
The restriction was announced after an outage on July 1 where thousands of users across the globe were unable to access Twitter.
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Limits
Verified accounts can read 10,000 posts/day while unverified and newly joined users are limited to 1,000 and 500 posts per day, respectively.
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Twitter Blue
The reading restriction appears to be an attempt to get more users to sign up for the Twitter Blue program.