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USA Today Sports Media Group
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Cory Woodroof

Twitter users were furious after the website temporarily applied a reading limit

Twitter owner and chairman Elon Musk infuriated plenty of the website’s users on Saturday by implementing a surprise temporary limit on how many posts users could read in a given day.

A strange message of “rate limit exceeded” started to appear on people’s Twitter feeds early Saturday, accompanied by Musk sharing that “extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation” had forced the company into limiting how many posts a user could see in a day.

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