If you’ve attempted to scroll through Twitter on Saturday, only to be met with the notification, “rate limit exceeded,” there’s a reason, but it’s not a very good one.
Elon Musk, executive chair and CTO, chose a holiday weekend to enforce new daily limitations for users in response to “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation,” further impeding the site’s functionality.
Musk who made the announcement on his Twitter page on Saturday said Verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, adding that the unverified accounts and new unverified accounts are limited to reading 600 posts a day and 300 posts per day, respectively.
He said, “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,” tweeted Musk on Saturday hours after the social media platform was suffering from a global outage.
His clarification came as millions of users across the globe suffered a major outage globally, which prevented thousands of users from accessing the social media platform.
According to the outage monitor website ‘Down Detector’, more than 7,000 users reported issues with Twitter.
