Twitter users complain after Musk limits numbers of posts they can read

Musk says that, due to AI companies scraping Twitter for data, rate limits will be placed on users that will only allow them to view a restricted number of tweets. Initially, Musk sets the limits to 6000 posts/day for verified accounts, 600 posts for unverified acounts and 300 posts/day for new unverified accounts. Six hours later he later updates the rate limits to 8000 posts/day for verified users, 800 for verified, and shortly thereafter increases it to 10,000 for vervified users and 1000 for unverified.

To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve 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

Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023

Many users, who were not aware of the change, complained that they could not access tweets and were seeing a ‘rate limite exceeded’ message instead.

I was on this site for 5 mins and got this.

Thanks for my time back. I might be done. pic.twitter.com/1L0oFK5oJk

— Steve Cavendish (@scavendish) July 1, 2023