Here’s why Twitter’s ‘read limit’ rule could cause turmoil for users | USA TODAY



Twitter set a new “rate limit” policy that limits the amount of tweets a user can see which could restrict life-saving information for some people. https://bit.ly/3CVYoAr

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Twitter owner Elon Musk on Saturday announced “temporary limits” on the number of tweets users are able to read, an announcement that comes amid reports of users having difficulty accessing the site.

Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion last October and took the company private, said in a tweet “to address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits.”

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4 comments

  1. Elon Musk is a disingenuous troll…

  2. You're a true visionary in the world of YouTube.

  3. You mean people actually read 600 to 6000 (or more) posts a day? Imagine if they read…i don't know…the CONSTITUTION, or the Bill of Rights, or the Bible, or Shakespeare or Poe or the Mahabharata….

  4. “Some users might miss life saving information “ OMG” give me a break!!! These people really need to get a real life and simply get off the internet and electronic devices if they want to save there lives! If they actually believe that then there brains have turned to MUSH!