Elon Musk announces 'temporary limits' on how many tweets users can read: report

Former Twitter Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk announced Saturday that the social media giant is implementing a new policy, restricting the number of tweets users can read in a day, NBC reports.

The change comes just weeks after Musk announced former NBCUniversal advertising sales leader, Linda Yaccarino, would take on the title of CEO.

Musk shared the news via Twitter, writing, "To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we've applied the following temporary limits: - Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day - Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day - New unverified accounts to 300/day"

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NBC reports:

Saturday's outage is not the first time Twitter has suffered technical difficulties in recent months. In February, users were unable to post on the site for about 90 minutes after receiving a message that read, 'You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets.' In March, users were temporarily unable to click on links or load images.

According to Politico, minutes before the tech billionaire announced the new policy, "users were met with a message reading 'rate limit exceeded,' when trying to view content. Enough users were confused by the alert that '#TwitterDown' was trending in the U.S. on Saturday morning."

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NBC's full report is available at this link. Politico's report is here.