Twitter Rate limits: 10K posts/day for verified, 1k posts/day for unverified & 0,5k posts/day for new unverified
On Saturday, thousands of individuals reported issues accessing Twitter after owner Elon Musk limited most users to reading 1000 tweets per day — limits he characterized as an attempt to prevent illicit scraping of potentially valuable data from the platform.
Rate limits increasing soon to 10K for verified, 1k for unverified & 0,5k for new unverified.
Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
Based on complaints logged on Downdetector, a website that records internet outages, the crackdown began to have rippling effects early Saturday, forcing more than 7,500 individuals to report issues accessing the social networking account at one time.
Although this is a modest proportion of Twitter’s more than 200 million global users, the issue was pervasive enough that the hashtag #TwitterDown trended in several areas of the world.
The outages occurred a day after Twitter began requiring users to log in to view tweets and profiles, a departure from the company’s long-standing policy of allowing anyone to peruse the chatter on what Musk has frequently referred to as the world’s digital town square since purchasing it for $44 billion last year.
Musk described the new limits in a Friday tweet as a “temporary measure” adopted because “we were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!”
Musk expanded on the measures in a Saturday tweet, announcing that unverified users will be limited to seeing 1000 messages per day for the time being, while verified accounts will be able to swipe through up to 10,000 posts per day.
After browsing through hundreds of messages, users may be shut out of Twitter for the day as a result of the limitations.
The higher threshold for verified accounts is part of Musk’s $8 per month subscription service, which he launched earlier this year in an effort to boost Twitter revenue, which has fallen sharply since he took over the company and laid off roughly three-fourths of the workforce in order to cut costs and avoid bankruptcy./AP