Elon Musk’s Move To Limit the Number of Viewable Tweets Is Partially Aimed At Combatting ChatGPT’s Exploitation of Twitter
This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy.
In a perverse bit of irony, those who've consistently maintained that Twitter is nothing more than a cesspool were the same people expressing outrage this weekend when Elon Musk announced a significant step aimed at curtailing unauthorized data scrapping.
If dying from irony were possible, it would’ve been be a massacre
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 2, 2023
In order to address "extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation" that were supposedly affecting the overall user experience, Elon Musk announced on Saturday that verified accounts would be temporarily limited to viewing 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts to 600 posts per day, and new unverified ones to just 300 daily posts.
NEWS: The rate limits have increased again.
- 10k for verified.- 1k for Unverified- 500 for new unverified. pic.twitter.com/WdE1bNBPTq
— T(w)itter Daily News (@TitterDaily) July 1, 2023
After a number of revisions, Elon Musk eventually settled on a daily viewability limit of 10,000 tweets for verified accounts and 1,000 tweets for unverified ones. Crucially, new unverified accounts will be limited to viewing just 500 tweets per day for the time being.
Some people asked me to share what I just shared in a space about the rate limits. I don't work for Twitter but, I do architect IT cloud solutions as my day job.
It is temporary. Twitter's rate limiting is not what everyone is thinking it is. It is not to punish non-paying… https://t.co/Wxa9jJEVZn
— The Sicilian Irish Robot (@misteryrobozo) July 1, 2023
Mass data scrapping activities targeting Twitter, as alleged by Elon Musk, pose not only user experience
Read more on wccftech.com
