Elon Musk imposes 'rate limit' on Twitter citing extreme ‘system manipulation’

Social media level Twitter is temporarily limiting the fig of posts that users volition beryllium allowed to work per day, aft seeing “extreme levels of information scraping and strategy manipulation,” according to enforcement president Elon Musk.

In a July 1 post, Musk said the impermanent limits volition spot verified accounts capped astatine 10,000 posts per day, portion unverified and new, unverified accounts are capped astatine 1,000 and 500 posts per time respectively:

Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k

Twitter users had been reporting issues connected the level implicit the past fewer days including the inability to retrieve tweets, missing timelines, and being met with a "rate constricted exceeded" message, starring to the hashtag #TwitterDown #TwitterFail to inclination successful definite jurisdictions.

A screenshot of a Twitter user’s relationship — having reached their complaint limit. Source: Twitter

Real-time outage show website Downdetector has seen thousands of user-submitted reports claiming Twitter outages implicit the past 24 hours.

France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the East and West Coasts of the United States look to beryllium the astir affected regions, according to Is The Service Down.

Number of outage reports connected Twitter successful 15-minute intervals implicit the past 24 hours. Source: Downdetector

Musk didn’t clarify what whitethorn beryllium liable for scraping Twitter’s information and didn’t elaborate connected the basal origin down the “system manipulation” claim, but said that their information was being "pillaged" truthful overmuch it was degrading work for users. 

Some suggest that the utmost "data scraping" has been caused by web-browsing-enabled artificial quality chatbots, specified arsenic OpenAI's GPT-4.

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According to Twitter’s developer documents, rate limits are imposed to negociate the measurement of requests made to Twitter’s Application Program Interface (API).

“These limits assistance america supply the reliable and scalable API that our developer assemblage relies on,” the papers states.

rate bounds reads
enable in-app DEX
allow america to commercialized our excess tweet-read equilibrium for crypto
charge 1% committee pic.twitter.com/uZ4HJxuYq3

Outside of the office, Musk appears to beryllium training for a imaginable mixed martial arts cage combat with chap billionaire and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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