Twitter temporarily restricts tweets users can see

There are 500 new unconfirmed accounts. Accounts with the status “verified” can only make 10,000 posts per day at the moment. The tech billionaire first placed tighter restrictions, but he soon altered them after making the announcement.
The interim restrictions, according to Mr. Musk, were put in place to combat “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation”.
In this instance, he did not define what he meant by “system manipulation.”
Users were shown displays requesting them to check in to read Twitter material on Friday. “We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users,” Mr. Musk added.
A “temporary emergency measure” was used to explain the action. Although it’s not entirely obvious what Mr. Musk means when he uses the term “data scraping,” it seems he is referring to the large-scale data collection done by artificial intelligence (AI) companies in order to train their massive language models, which enable chatbots like Google’s Bard and Open AI’s ChatGPT.
Data scraping is simply the process of obtaining information from the internet. Massive language models must absorb knowledge from a huge body of actual human dialogues. But a chatbot’s success depends on its quality. The massive collection of billions of posts on Reddit and Twitter is considered to be crucial training data and is used by AI businesses.
However, websites like Twitter and Reddit expect payment for this information. Reddit’s CEO Steve Huffman expressed his dissatisfaction with what AI businesses were doing in April to the New York Times.
He declared, “The Reddit corpus of data is incredibly valuable. But we don’t have to provide some of the biggest firms in the world with all of that value for nothing.
Twitter’s application programming interface (API), which is frequently used by third-party apps and academics, including AI businesses, has already begun to charge users for access. There may be other factors at play as well.
The company’s paid subscription service, Twitter Blue, has been promoted by Mr. Musk. It’s probable that he’s considering a business model in which users would have to pay to use the entire Twitter service, including limitless posting.
Before Mr. Musk took over as its CEO, Twitter offered high-profile accounts the “verified” status, denoted by a blue tick, for free. Most users now pay a monthly subscription fee starting at $8 (£6.30) to get verified, and they can do so regardless of their profile.
A peak of 5,126 users in the UK reported having trouble accessing the platform at 16:12 BST on Saturday, according to the website Downdetector, which keeps track of online outages.
Approximately 7,461 US users reported bugs at about the same time. At first, Mr. Musk declared that confirmed accounts could read 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts could read 600 posts per day, and new unverified accounts may read 300 posts per day.
In a subsequent post, Mr. Musk stated that “a few hundred organizations (possibly more) were aggressively scraping Twitter data.”
Later, he acknowledged that his website had been under pressure, calling it “rather galling” to have to put several servers online in an emergency.
A server is a sophisticated computer that controls and saves files while offering users services like web pages.
The decision, according to Adam Leon Smith of BCS, the UK’s professional body for IT, was “very odd” because it would reduce the company’s advertising revenue.
After lengthy negotiation, Mr. Musk purchased the business last year for $44 billion (£35 billion). He expressed disapproval for Twitter’s prior leadership and stated that he did not want the website to turn into an echo chamber.
He reduced the workforce from just under 8,000 employees to roughly 1,500 shortly after taking over. He claimed that reducing the workforce had not been simple in a BBC interview.
He reduced the workforce from just under 8,000 employees to roughly 1,500 shortly after taking over. He claimed that reducing the workforce had not been simple in a BBC interview.
In the layoffs, engineers were also affected, and their departure raised questions about the platform’s stability. Although Mr. Musk was aware of certain issues, he assured the BBC in April that outages had been brief and the site was operating normally.
BBC