Twitter executive Elon Musk said the platform would be applying some temporary limits to deal with data scraping and system manipulation. .“Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day,” said Musk in a tweet. .“Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day.”.He said new unverified accounts would be limited to reading 300 tweets per day. .In another exercise in irony, he said this tweet achieved a record view count. .Western Standard columnist and show host Cory Morgan thanked Musk for limiting the number of tweets he can read. .“If I need to read more than 6000 posts per day, I clearly need some kind of intervention anyway,” said Morgan. .Semrush mocked Musk by saying it would apply various temporary limits to address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation. .“SEOs are limited to saying ‘It Depends’ 100 times/day,” said Semrush. .“Marketers are limited to 10 coffees/day.” .Musk said in November he will drop the price to have a verification symbol on Twitter from $20 to $8 after complaints from users. .READ MORE: Musk says he will charge $8 for Twitter blue check mark.“Power to the people!” he said. .“Blue for $8/month.”
