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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Miranda Bryant and agency

Twitter applies reading limit after users report issues with platform

Elon Musk
Users reported problems with the Elon Musk-owned service on Saturday, saying they were unable to retrieve tweets and that timelines had gone missing. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

Twitter has applied temporary reading limits to address “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation, Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform on Saturday.

Verified accounts were temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, Musk said, adding that unverified accounts and new unverified accounts were limited to reading 600 posts a day and 300 posts a day respectively.

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