Twitter has applied a temporary restriction to the number of tweets users can read in a day, amid widespread outages.
The owner Elon Musk on Saturday said the social media giant has implemented a “temporary limit” to tackle what he described as malicious use of the platform.
“To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits,” Musk wrote.
“Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day; Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day; New unverified accounts to 300/day,” Musk added.
The move was a “temporary emergency measure” as the social media platform was “getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users.”
Last year, Mr Musk bought Twitter for $44bn (£35bn).
Musk cut the workforce from just under 8,000 staff to about 1,500, according to the BBC.
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