Published By: Sanstuti Nath<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Last Updated: July 02, 2023, 12:21 IST<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n New York, United States of America (USA)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n New unverified accounts would be limited to 500 tweets (Image: News18)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Elon Musk announced Saturday that Twitter would temporarily restrict how many tweets users could read per day, in a move meant to tamp down on the use of the site\u2019s data by artificial intelligence companies.<\/p>\n The platform is limiting verified accounts to reading 10,000 tweets a day. Non-verified users \u2014 the free accounts that make up the majority of users \u2014 are limited to reading 1,000 tweets per day.<\/p>\n New unverified accounts would be limited to 500 tweets.<\/p>\n The decision was made \u201cto address extreme levels of data scraping” and \u201csystem manipulation” by third-party platforms, Musk said in a tweet Saturday afternoon, as some users quickly hit their limits.<\/p>\n \u201cGoodbye Twitter” was a trending topic in the United States following Musk\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n Twitter\u2019s billionaire owner did not give a timeline for how long the measures would be in place.<\/p>\n The day before, Musk had announced that it would no longer be possible to read tweets on the site without an account.<\/p>\n Much of the data scraping was coming from firms using it to build their AI models, Musk said, to the point that it was causing traffic issues with the site.<\/p>\n To create AI that can respond in a human-like capacity, many companies feed the programs examples of real-life conversations from social media sites.<\/p>\n \u201cSeveral hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience,” Musk said.<\/p>\n \u201cAlmost every company doing AI, from startups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth, was scraping vast amounts of data,” he said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is rather galling to have to bring large numbers of servers online on an emergency basis just to facilitate some AI startup\u2019s outrageous valuation.”<\/p>\n Twitter is not the only social media giant to have to wrangle with the rapid acceleration of the AI sector.<\/p>\n In mid-June, Reddit raised prices on third-party developers that were using its data and sweeping up conversations posted on its forums.<\/p>\n It proved a controversial move, as many regular users also accessed the site via third-party platforms, and marked a shift from previous arrangements where social media data had generally been provided for free or a small charge.<\/p>\n (This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – AFP<\/a>)<\/i> <\/div>\n![\"New](\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/ibnlive\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1627283897_news18_logo-1200x800.jpg?impolicy=website&width=510&height=356\" "\\"New"){kind=logo}
<\/figure>\nTwitter’s billionaire owner did not give a timeline for how long the measures would be in place<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n