Musk limits tweets viewable per day on Twitter

Elon Musk

Twitter owner Elon Musk introduced, then quickly amended, new rules to the social media platform on Saturday that set "temporary limits" on how many posts can be read per day.

The changes were made to "address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation," Musk tweeted.

Musk unveiled that verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts per day and unverified accounts are limited to 600 posts per day. New unverified accounts are limited to 300 posts per day, he said.

Within two hours of making the announcement, Musk tweeted that rate limits will be "increasing soon" to 8,000 for verified, 800 for unverified and 400 for new unverified accounts.

Details of the changes came after many Twitter users complained about issues loading tweets Saturday morning -- including receiving error messages saying "rate limit exceeded." The hashtag "TwitterDown" was trending Saturday as users apparently encountered the new limits.

(QNA)