Elon Musk announces tightening on Twitter: it limits the number of viewable tweets

The owner Elon Musk has announced a temporary limit of visible tweets on the social network, which had led many users to think it was a malfunction of the platform.Elon Musk imposes "temporary limits" on Twitter to counter "high levels of system manipulation and data scraping". The billionaire's announcement comes on a day of difficulty for users: since this morning, reports of problems in consulting the social platform have increased considerably, as reported by the Downdetector site, which tracks user reports on malfunctions, which today found it impossible, once they entered the home page of the social platform, to see the normal scrolling of the posts. An error message warns: “Something went wrong. Try to update".

Another message, further down, provides a few more elements: “Sorry, you have reached your limit. Wait a few moments".The answer to this anomaly comes from the owner of Twitter. In a post, Elon Musk explains that this is not a technical failure, but a new policy. And that from now on, unverified users will be limited to reading 800 tweets a day, verified ones (i.e. with a blue tick) up to 8,000. For new unverified accounts, the number of readable tweets drops to 400.Initially the limits had been set at 6000 tweets for verified users and 600 for unverified ones (in short, not for a fee), but after an hour, Musk also increased the maximum number of daily consultations.