Verified accounts are temporarily limited to 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts are limited to 600 posts per day and new unverified accounts to 300 per day.
News: The web version of Twitter no longer allows users to browse without logging in. All urls redirect to the sign up page.
This is believed to be a measure that makes it more difficult for Twitter data scrapers, such as the ChatGPT web browsing plug-in, to grab Twitter data. pic.twitter.com/DbfuAWwS4p
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Earlier on Friday, Twitter announced that users will temporarily need to have an account on the platform to view tweets. This change has since taken effect.
So if a reader without a Twitter account was surprised why he couldn’t open posts on the interface from moment to moment – well, that’s why.
According to Musk, more than a hundred organizations have begun “very aggressive” data collection on Twitter, which has also affected user experience. The entrepreneur has previously expressed discontent with AI companies like OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT, for using Twitter data to train their language models, Reuters reports.
