Twitter has applied a temporary limit to the number of tweets users can read in a day.
Mr Musk said in a tweet that unverified accounts are now limited to reading 1,000 posts a day. For new unverified accounts, the number is 500. Meanwhile, accounts with “verified” status are currently limited to 10,000 posts a day.
The tech billionaire had previously set stricter limits, but he changed these within hours of announcing the move.
Initially, Mr Musk announced reading limits of 6,000 posts per day for verified accounts, 600 for unverified accounts, and 300 for new unverified accounts.
Mr Musk said the temporary limits were to address “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation”.
He did not explain what was meant by system manipulation in this context.
“We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users,” Mr Musk explained on Friday, after users were presented with screens asking them to log in to view Twitter content.
The move was described as a “temporary emergency measure”.
