When Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, he said he wanted to turn the blue bird app into a "But one expert says Musk’s vision for the app is starting to crumble after the tech billionaire recently“This is extremely problematic given the fact that this is how people communicate, this is how they get their information,” Ritesh Kotak, a Toronto-based technology and cybersecurity expert, told CTV News Channel on Sunday.
“Instead of this being an open digital town square, it seems like the walls are actually closing in.”, saying “extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation” were to blame for the temporary measure. Originally, he said verified Twitter accounts would be limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, unverified accounts would be limited to 600 posts a day and new unverified accounts would be limited to 300 posts a day.
Within a span of a few hours, Musk announced changes to those limits twice. He eventually gave verified accounts access to 10,000 tweets a day, unverified accounts access to 1,000 tweets a day, and new unverified accounts access to 500 tweets a day.Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k