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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Twitter has applied a temporary limit to the number of tweets users can read in a day, owner Elon Musk has said.<\/b>
\nIn a tweet of his own, Mr Musk said unverified accounts are now limited to reading 1,000 posts a day.
\nFor new unverified accounts, the number is 500. Meanwhile, accounts with \u201cverified\u201d status are currently limited to 10,000 posts a day.
\nThe tech billionaire initially set stricter limits, but he changed these within hours of announcing the move.
\nMr Musk said the temporary limits were to address \u201cextreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation\u201d.
\nHe did not explain what was meant by system manipulation in this context.
\n\u201cWe were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users,\u201d Mr Musk explained on Friday, after users were presented with screens asking them to log in to view Twitter content.
\nThe move was described as a \u201ctemporary emergency measure\u201d.
\nIt is not totally clear what Mr Musk is referring to by data scraping, but it appears he means the scraping of large amounts of data used by artificial intelligence (AI) companies to train large language models, which power chatbots such as Open AI\u2019s ChatGPT and Google\u2019s Bard.
\nIn simple terms, data scraping is the pulling of information from the internet. Large language models need to learn from masses of real human conversations. But the quality is vital to the success of a chatbot. Reddit and Twitter\u2019s huge trove of billions of posts are thought to be hugely important training data \u2013 and used by AI companies.
\nBut platforms like Twitter and Reddit want to be paid for this data.
\nIn April, Reddit\u2019s chief executive Steve Huffman told the New York Times that he was unhappy with what AI companies were doing.
\n\u201cThe Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we don\u2019t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.\u201d
\nTwitter has already started charging users to access its application programming interface (API), which is often used by third party apps and researchers \u2013 which can include AI companies.
\nThere are other potential reasons for the move too.
\nMr Musk has been pushing people towards Twitter Blue, its paid subscription service. It\u2019s possible he is looking at a model where users will have to pay to get a full Twitter service \u2013 and access to unlimited posts.
\nSignalled by a blue tick, \u201cverified\u201d status was given for free by Twitter to high-profile accounts before Mr Musk took over as its boss. Now, most users have to pay a subscription fee from $8 (\u00a36.30) per month to be verified, and can gain the status regardless of their profile.
\nAccording to the website Downdetector \u2013 which tracks online outages \u2013 a peak of 5,126 people reported problems accessing the platform in the UK at 16:12 BST on Saturday.
\nIn the US, roughly 7,461 people reported glitches around the same time.
\nInitially, Mr Musk announced reading limits of 6,000 posts per day for verified accounts, 600 for unverified accounts, and 300 for new unverified accounts.
\nIn another update Mr Musk said \u201cseveral hundred organisations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively\u201d.
\nHe later indicated there had been a burden on his website, saying it was \u201crather galling to have to bring large numbers of servers online on an emergency basis\u201d.
\nA server is a powerful computer that manages and stores files, providing services such as web pages for users.
\nAdam Leon Smith from BCS, the UK\u2019s professional body for IT, said the move was \u201cvery odd\u201d as limiting users\u2019 scroll time would affect the company\u2019s advertising revenue.
\nMr Musk bought the company last year for $44bn (\u00a335bn) after much back and forth. He was critical of Twitter\u2019s previous management and said he did not want the platform to become an echo chamber.
\nSoon after taking over, he cut the workforce from just under 8,000 staff to about 1,500.
\nIn an interview, he said that cutting the workforce had not been easy.
\nEngineers were included in the layoffs and their exit raised concerns about the platform\u2019s stability.
\nBut while Mr Musk acknowledged some glitches, he told in April that outages had not lasted very long and the site was working fine.<\/p>\n

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