A whole big shock?
Guys, did you feel very unsmooth when you scrolled Twitter yesterday?
According to DownDetector statistics, since 8 a.m. ET yesterday, they have received notifications from tens of thousands of Twitter users that they are no longer able to use Twitter.
This went on for hours, and it was most severe at 1 p.m., when more than 7,000 bug reports were received. It was the latest widespread service disruption since Musk acquired the social media site late last year.
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Well, don't panic, it's not your problem, because...
Twitter is really throttling!
Musk announced on Saturday that Twitter would temporarily limit the number of tweets a user can read per day and limit both verified and unverified users in an effort to deal with "extreme levels of data scraping" and "system manipulation."
In short, Twitter is starting to limit the number of users can access per day!
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It is not clear how long these restrictions will last and what their lifting will depend on. Musk did not respond to a request for comment.
So what are the specific limits? Musk also explained on Twitter:
To address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation, we employ the following temporary restrictions:
- Verified accounts can read 6,000 posts per day
- Unverified accounts can only view 600 posts per day
- New unverified accounts can view 300 posts per day
Note: A verified account is a Twitter user whose account has been around for at least 90 days, has a valid phone number, and has an active and eligible Twitter Blue subscription
After two hours, I changed the standard again...
Verified: 8000/day
Unverified: 600/day
New unverified: 300/day
After three hours, the double tone was changed...
Verified: 10,000/day
Unverified: 1000/day
New unverified: 500/day
(Aren't you bargaining for groceries?) ... ）
As you can imagine, such an official announcement made many severe Twitter patients vomit blood, and wailed online:
After reading 10,000 postponed me...
10001 push time...
......
......
......
I'll say a word for all verified accounts, change our browsing to unlimited, or we'll change platforms!
This is really the most ridiculous idea I know, and this is destroying Twitter.
#WTFTwitter and #RIPTwitter这两个标签渐渐也被顶上了热搜....
Seeing that there were too many people complaining, he couldn't help but jump out and explain:
The reason I set "viewing restrictions" is because we're all so addicted to Twitter that we need to go out and about.
I'm here to do a good thing for the world.
Another reminder, you see that my push can use up another of your quota.
Well, though, such restrictions seem to have been traced for a long time.
On Friday, Musk just announced a move: you can't view tweets without logging into your account. He described the change as a temporary measure aimed at preventing third parties from stealing data from the platform.
In a tweet, Musk expressed disappointment at the "extreme degree of data breaches" of AI companies. Chatbots like ChatGPT, for example, rely on large amounts of data, much of which is scraped from the internet. And this time the throttling is also to combat such data grabbing.
The Washington Post commented that the restrictions are Musk's latest major change.
It is reported that after Musk announced the news on Saturday, Twitter's traffic hit another record high... All right...