Twitter applies reading limit after users report issues with platform

Twitter has applied temporary reading limits to address "extreme levels" of data scraping and system manipulation, Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform on Saturday. Verified accounts were temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, Musk said, adding that unverified accounts and new unverified accounts were limited to reading 600 posts a day and 300 posts a day respectively. In a later tweet, the billionaire added: "Rate limits increasing soon to 8,000 for verified, 800 for unverified & 400 for new unverified." That comes after Twitter had announced that it will require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move that Musk on Friday called a "temporary emergency measure". Musk had said that hundreds of organisations were scraping Twitter data "extremely aggressively", affecting user experience.