Twitter limits the number of tweets users can read per day

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The policy change, announced by tech billionaire Elon Musk, began to have a ripple effect early on July 1. According to the website Downdetector, which specializes in tracking outages, at one point, over 7,500 people simultaneously reported problems using the social network's services.

While that's a relatively small percentage of Twitter's more than 200 million users worldwide, the outage was widespread enough to cause the hashtag #TwitterDown to trend in some parts of the world.

The outage comes a day after Twitter began requiring people to log in to view tweets and profiles, a change from Twitter’s longstanding practice.

In a tweet shared on June 30, Mr. Musk described the new restrictions as a temporary measure because the data source was being used so much that it was degrading the service for normal users.

Unverified accounts will be temporarily limited to reading 600 posts per day while verified accounts will be able to browse up to 6,000 posts per day.

That means users will be “locked” from Twitter for the day after reading the limit of a few hundred tweets.

After billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter in October 2022, the social media company faced months of turmoil, including the sudden layoff of thousands of employees and criticism over lax content moderation that led to many influential posts in society. In that context, many advertisers terminated their contracts with Twitter.

In April 2023, Insider Intelligence predicted that Twitter's advertising revenue would fall 28% to $2.98 billion in 2023. Insider Intelligence said that users were no longer as interested in Twitter as before, after Mr. Musk became the company's leader. The company estimated that users' time spent on the social media platform would decrease by 2 minutes, down to 34 minutes/day.

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