Elon Musk Limits Twitter's Pace Due to Severe ‘System Manipulation’

Under the new restrictions, verified Twitter users will be permitted to access 10,000 posts every day while new, unverified accounts will only be given 500.

Source: www.cbc.ca

After observing extreme levels of data harvesting and system manipulation, social media network Twitter is temporarily restricting the number of posts that users are permitted to view each day, according to executive chairman Elon Musk. Verified users will be limited to 10,000 posts per day under the interim restrictions, while unverified and new, unverified accounts will be limited to 1,000 and 500 posts per day, respectively. Twitter users have been having issues with the network over the past several days, including being unable to retrieve messages, lost timelines, and being confronted with a rate restriction exceeding notification. As a result, the hashtags #TwitterDown and #TwitterFail began to trend in certain countries.

Over the past 24 hours, the real-time outage tracking website Downdetector has received hundreds of user-submitted claims alleging Twitter outages. According to Is The Service Down, the most impacted countries appear to be France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the East and West Coasts of the United States.

The total number of outage reports on Twitter in the previous 24 hours at 15-minute intervals. Source: Downdetector

Musk said that Twitter's data was being pillaged to the point that it was deteriorating service for users, without specifying who or what may be responsible for scraping the social media platform's data or explaining the underlying reason for the system manipulation assertion. Some claim that web-browsing-capable artificial intelligence chatbots like OpenAI's GPT-4 are to blame for the severe data scraping that has been occurring.

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Rate limitations are established, in accordance with Twitter's developer documentation, to control the number of queries made to the Application Program Interface (API). These restrictions help us provide the dependable and scalable API that our developer ecosystem relies on, the paper claims. Musk appeared to be practicing for a hypothetical mixed martial arts cage match with fellow billionaire and CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg outside the workplace. 

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