Twitter Implements Reading Restrictions During Prolonged Outage

Twitter users are facing reading restrictions as the social media platform experiences an extended outage, hampering users' ability to keep up with new posts. Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, announced the revised usage quotas in a tweet. Verified account holders are now limited to reading a maximum of 6,000 tweets per day, while unverified users have a significantly reduced limit of 600 tweets. Newly registered, unverified users face even stricter restrictions, with an allowance of just 300 tweets per day. These limits have since been increased to 10,000, 1,000, and 500, respectively.

Musk cited "extreme levels of data scraping" and "system manipulation" as the reasons behind these constraints, without providing further details about the organizations involved or the duration of the issue. Previously, Musk had expressed concerns about data scraping and hinted at taking action against those responsible. However, a developer has suggested that the problem this time may stem from a bug within Twitter's web app, causing requests to enter an infinite loop.

The recent complaints from tens of thousands of users about Twitter failing to display newer tweets led to the implementation of these limits. Instead, users encountered the "rate limit exceeded" error message. This outage is not the first technical glitch Twitter has faced in recent months, and it has prompted the platform to adopt unconventional measures to maintain stability. Earlier in the week, Twitter restricted access to its platform for users not logged into an account.

The timing of this outage coincides with reports of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, preparing to launch its own rival to Twitter.

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