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Coverage dated June 30, 2023

Elon Musk announces temporary daily Twitter post reading limits

Headline from ABC 11 Raleigh

Elon Musk tweeted that the site has applied temporary limits "to address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation."

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  1. Deadline

    Twitter Sets Daily Limit On Number Of Posts You Can Read, Site Is Glitchy (opens Deadline)

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    Deadline's feed description

    Elon Musk has set a limit on the number of tweets users can read each day. Musk announced the new program Saturday as thousands of users reported problems attempting to access the site. In a tweet …

  2. Washington Examiner

    Elon Musk sets limit on how many tweets users can read in a day (opens Washington Examiner)

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    Twitter owner Elon Musk announced Saturday that the platform will begin setting limits on how many tweets can be read per day.

  3. ABC 11 Raleigh

    Elon Musk announces temporary daily Twitter post reading limits (opens ABC 11 Raleigh)

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    ABC 11 Raleigh's feed description

    Elon Musk tweeted that the site has applied temporary limits "to address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation."

  4. KAGS Bryan

    Twitter users run into service issues after Elon Musk imposes daily limits on reading tweets (opens KAGS Bryan)

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    KAGS Bryan's feed description

    Musk said verified users will be able to read several thousand posts a day — ten times the limit for unverified users.

  5. Forbes

    Elon Musk Announces ‘Temporary’ Reading Limit For Unverified Twitter Accounts Amid Outage (opens Forbes)

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    Musk said the change is to “address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation."

  6. WSVN Miami

    Twitter users run into service issues after Elon Musk imposes daily limits on reading tweets - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports (opens WSVN Miami)

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    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thousands of people logged complaints about problems accessing Twitter on Saturday after owner Elon Musk limited most users to viewing 600

  7. The Hollywood Reporter

    Twitter Introduces “Temporary Limits” for the Number of Tweets Users Can See Daily (opens The Hollywood Reporter)

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    The Hollywood Reporter's feed description

    Verified accounts are limited to seeing 6,000 posts a day, while unverified accounts can only view 600.

  8. Minneapolis Star Tribune

    Elon Musk sets new daily Twitter limits for users (opens Minneapolis Star Tribune)

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  9. Wall Street Journal

    Twitter Limits Number of Posts Users Can Read, Prompting Disruptions for Some (opens Wall Street Journal)

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    The social-media platform began limiting how many posts users can read, an unusual move that came as owner Elon Musk says he is fighting companies trying to use its data for developing artificial intelligence programs.

  10. France 24

    Twitter temporarily limits the number of tweets read per day, says Elon Musk (opens France 24)

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    Twitter is limiting how many tweets per day various accounts can read, to discourage "extreme levels" of data scraping and system manipulation, Executive Chair Elon Musk said in a post on the social…

  11. Forbes

    How To Get Around Twitter’s New Rule That Limits Users To Reading Just 600 Tweets Per Day (opens Forbes)

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    Elon Musk announced a new policy for Twitter on Saturday that limits most users to reading just 600 tweets per day. But there does appear to be one workaround.

  12. News Nation Now

    Elon Musk says Twitter is limiting how many posts a user can read (opens News Nation Now)

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    Twitter appeared to be down for some users on Saturday morning, and a tweet from Elon Musk only seemed to add to the confusion.

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