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Elon Musk blames data scraping by AI startups for his new paywalls on reading tweets


Elon Musk shrugging on a background with the Twitter logo
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Elon Musk continues to blame Twitter’s new limitations on AI companies scraping “vast amounts of data” as he announced new “temporary” limits on how many posts people can read.

Now unverified accounts will only be able to see 600 posts per day, and for “new” unverified accounts, just 300 in a day. The limits for verified accounts (presumably whether they’re bought as a part of the Twitter Blue subscription, granted through an organization, or verification Elon forced on people like Stephen King, LeBron James, and anyone else with more than a million followers) still allow reading only a maximum of 6,000 posts per day.

Shortly after that, Musk tweeted that the rate limits would “soon” increase to 8,000 tweets for verified users, 800 for…

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By: Wes DavisRichard Lawler
Title: Elon Musk blames data scraping by AI startups for his new paywalls on reading tweets
Sourced From: www.theverge.com/2023/7/1/23781198/twitter-daily-reading-limit-elon-musk-verified-paywall
Published Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2023 21:08:57 +0000

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