Twitter says rate limits were to help thwart bots, small percentage of users currently affected
Summary
Recent usage limits on Twitter were implemented to "detect and eliminate bots and other bad actors," the company said Tuesday, adding that only a "small percentage" of users are currently affected. "To ensure the authenticity of our user base we must take extreme measures to remove spam and bots from our platform," Twitter said in a blog post. The company said the actions are intended to prevent accounts from scraping users public data to build artificial intelligence models and from manipulating use of the platform. Twitter owner Elon Musk announced the limits on Saturday, saying users would only be permitted to read a certain number of posts per day due to "extreme levels of data scraping" and "system manipulation." "Currently, the restrictions affect a small percentage of people using the platform, and we will provide an update when the work is complete.