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Twitter’s recent usage restrictions were put in place to “detect and eliminate bots and other malicious individuals,” the company said on Tuesday, adding that only a “small percentage” of users are currently affected. added that only
“To ensure the credibility of our user base, we must take extreme measures to remove spam and bots from our platform,” Twitter said. in a blog post. “Advance notice of these actions would allow malicious actors to change their behavior to avoid detection.”
The company said these measures are aimed at preventing accounts from collecting users’ public data or manipulating the use of the platform to build artificial intelligence models.
Twitter owner Elon Musk announced the limit on Saturday, saying users can only read a certain number of posts per day due to “extreme levels of data scraping” and “system manipulation.”
Twitter has billed the restrictions as temporary, phasing them out based on a user’s authentication status on the platform. This update was made because many Twitter users encountered the error her message when trying to access the platform.
“At this time, this restriction is impacting a small number of people using the platform and we will provide an update once the work is complete. As it pertains to our customers, the impact on advertising will be minimal. limited,” Twitter said on Tuesday.
