Ben MillerJul 1, 2023

#Musk just introduced a "read-limit". #Verified accounts can read 6000 tweets a day, #Unverified can read 600 tweets a day.

Official reason: "measure against data scraping" (I‘ll explain why this is bs below)

Inofficial but actual reason: #Twitter is running out of money and Muk needs to take even more drastic measures to force people to buy #TwitterBlue

🧵Here is why Musks explanation is bs:

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@bensen for those out of the know, what is data scrapping?
Jul 1, 2023 at 8:00pmWeb
Show threadBen MillerJul 1, 2023
@engineerminded data scraping basically means in this context that bots are reading and copying users tweets for data analysis.