Twitter is placing limits to what number of tweets its customers can learn because the Elon Musk-owned service suffers prolonged outage that has stymied customers’ means to trace new posts.

In a tweet, Musk detailed the revised utilization quotas. Verified account holders can peruse a most of 6,000 posts every day, whereas unverified customers should take care of a drastically lowered restrict of 600 posts.

Newly registered, unverified customers face even tighter restrictions with an allowance of a mere 300 posts per day, in accordance with the Tesla and SpaceX chief govt.

Musk stated that Twitter is wrestling with “excessive ranges of information scraping” and “system manipulation.” These new constraints, he says, are an important measure to curb these urgent points. Musk didn’t say who was scraping Twitter’s information — or how lengthy the difficulty had endured — nor did he elaborate on the system manipulation declare.

The billionaire has beforehand expressed considerations about information scraping at Twitter and recommended that he might take motion in opposition to the unhealthy actors. Musk was briefly outraged over Microsoft “illegally” utilizing Twitter’s information and threatened that it was “lawsuit time.”

The curb follows tens of 1000’s of customers complaining on Saturday that Twitter was not populating their feeds with newer tweets. As a substitute, customers had been greeted with the “price restrict exceeded” error.

This isn’t the primary technical hiccup that Twitter has grappled with in latest months, neither is it the primary occasion of an unorthodox answer being devised to carry the state of affairs collectively.

Earlier this week, Twitter began to limit entry to its platform for anybody not logged into an account.

The hiccup arrives at a time when social media big Meta is reportedly making ready to launch its personal Twitter rival.