Twitter has applied a temporary limit to the number of tweets users can read in a day

CEO Elon Musk said Twitter had imposed the limit to "address extreme levels of data scraping"

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Twitter has applied a temporary limit to the number of tweets users can read in a day

CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet of his own, unverified accounts were at first limited to reading 600 posts a day.

But now, verified accounts are now being limited to reading 10,000 posts a day, while unverified accounts can only read 1,000 posts a day.

The tech billionaire initially set stricter limits, but he changed these within hours of announcing the move.

Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023

Mr Musk said the temporary limits were to address "extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation".

It is not totally clear what Mr Musk is referring to by data scraping, but it appears he means the scraping of large amounts of data used by artificial intelligence (AI) companies to train large language models, which power chatbots such as Open AI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard.