Elon Musk announces temporary daily tweet reading limits, prompting user complaints worldwide

According to Elon Musk, CEO of Twitter, the company has recently introduced temporary restrictions on the number of tweets users can read per day. Musk stated in a tweet that unverified accounts are now limited to reading up to 600 posts daily, while verified accounts face a temporary limit of 6,000 posts per day.

To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:

– Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
– Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
– New unverified accounts to 300/day

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023

Consequently, a significant number of Twitter users experienced difficulties accessing the platform on Saturday night, as reported by Downdetector, a website that tracks service outages.

Notably, the United States recorded over 7,000 reported incidents of issues with Twitter, while the United Kingdom saw over 5,000 complaints. Similar problems were reported by users in various other countries, including India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Turkey, and Germany.

Users attempting to utilise the Twitter application or website were greeted with an error message stating “rate limit exceeded,” resulting in an absence of tweets displayed on their feed.