{"id":479023,"date":"2023-07-02T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T05:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=479023"},"modified":"2023-07-02T11:07:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T05:37:56","slug":"elon-musk-twitter-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/tech\/elon-musk-twitter-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk announces Twitter changes, verified accounts can read 6000 posts per day; check others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To prevent extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation, Twitter is limiting the number of tweets that different accounts can read each day, according to Twitte&#8217;s CEO Elon Musk in a post on the micro-blogging site, Twitter, on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elon Musk said that unverified accounts will be limited to 600 posts per day, with new unverified accounts being limited to 300, while verified users are temporarily restricted to reading 6,000 posts per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musk said in a separate post on Twitter that the temporary reading restriction would soon increase to 8,000 posts per day for verified users, 800 posts per day for unverified users, and 400 posts per day for new unverified users. However, he did not specify when it would be put into effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To address extreme levels of data scraping &amp; system manipulation, we\u2019ve applied the following temporary limits:<br><br>&#8211; Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts\/day<br>&#8211; Unverified accounts to 600 posts\/day<br>&#8211; New unverified accounts to 300\/day<\/p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1675187969420828672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As soon as Musk announced this internet got divided. Some section of users was praising Musk\u2019s decision while were not happy with the decision. Taking to Twitter one verified user asked him why verified accounts have a limit. Another said, is there even any purpose of doing this? Others too shared their different opinions on Musk\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why do verified accounts have a limit? I understand unverified but why verified ?<\/p>&mdash; Qura (@Qurandale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Qurandale\/status\/1675188421000560640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to Friday, Musk characterised the decision by Twitter to make it necessary for users to have accounts on the social media network in order to access tweets a temporary emergency measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He claimed that at least a thousand businesses were extremely aggressively&nbsp;mining Twitter data, which was negatively affecting user experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had previously indicated his displeasure with artificial intelligence companies using Twitter data to train their huge language models, including OpenAI, the company that owns ChatGPT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to Musk&#8217;s ownership, the social media network took a number of actions to win back advertisers that left Twitter and increase subscription revenue by incorporating verification checkmarks into the Twitter Blue program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, he did not specify when it would be put into effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":479028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[98870,110599],"tags":[94119,159337,650,113051],"yst_prominent_words":[9000,6669,5355,89252,89242,89246,8065,21214,5605,4813,6413],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/07\/02105659\/ezgif-5-060b754e90-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479023"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=479023"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=479023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->