twitter: Read restrictions affect a small set of users: Twitter
Twitter on Tuesday said that restrictions on the number of tweets a user can read affects a small percentage of people using the platform, and that the company will provide an update when the work is complete.
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Twitter on Tuesday said it had temporarily limited usage so it could detect and eliminate bots and other bad actors that are harming the platform, and that “an advance notice on these actions would have allowed bad actors to alter their behaviour to evade detection.”
“To ensure the authenticity of our user base we must take extreme measures to remove spam and bots from our platform,” it said in a statement.
“At a high level, we are working to prevent these accounts from scraping people’s public Twitter data to build AI models, and manipulating people and conversation on the platform in various ways,” the company added.
Twitter also said that the impact of this move on advertising has been minimal.
The Elon Musk-led microblogging platform on Saturday temporarily limited the number of posts users can read daily.
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“To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits,” Musk said in his tweet on Saturday.
Musk said that verified accounts on the platform are limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, while unverified accounts can read 600 posts per day. He added that new verified accounts can read 300 posts daily.
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Twitter on Tuesday said that restrictions on the number of tweets a user can read affects a small percentage of people using the platform, and that the company will provide an update when the work is complete.
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Twitter on Tuesday said it had temporarily limited usage so it could detect and eliminate bots and other bad actors that are harming the platform, and that “an advance notice on these actions would have allowed bad actors to alter their behaviour to evade detection.”
“To ensure the authenticity of our user base we must take extreme measures to remove spam and bots from our platform,” it said in a statement.
“At a high level, we are working to prevent these accounts from scraping people’s public Twitter data to build AI models, and manipulating people and conversation on the platform in various ways,” the company added.
Twitter also said that the impact of this move on advertising has been minimal.
The Elon Musk-led microblogging platform on Saturday temporarily limited the number of posts users can read daily.
Discover the stories of your interest
“To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits,” Musk said in his tweet on Saturday.
Musk said that verified accounts on the platform are limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, while unverified accounts can read 600 posts per day. He added that new verified accounts can read 300 posts daily.
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