Twitter Limits the Number of Tweets You Can See Per Day
- Laurent Giret
- Jul 03, 2023
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Twitter is currently limiting the number of tweets users can view per day. Over the weekend, Elon Musk, the new CTO of Twitter, announced that these temporary restrictions were implemented to “address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation.”
On June 30, Musk also confirmed that Twitter was now requiring all users to log in first to be able to browse twitter.com. “Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience,” Musk claimed.
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As of yesterday, Twitter Blue subscribers can see up to 10,000 tweets per day, but it drops to 1,000 for free users and 500 for Twitter users who just signed up. Once reaching these limits, Twitter users will see notifications saying either “Something went wrong. Try reloading,” or “Sorry, you are rate limited. Please wait a few moments then try again.”
Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
As reported by TechCrunch, these daily limits are currently more of a problem for users of TweetDeck. The popular social media dashboard lets users view multiple timelines at once, and that can increase the number of viewed tweets pretty fast.
Limiting how much time you can spend on Twitter doesn’t seem like the best way to keep users and advertisers on the platform. Anyway, the current restrictions on Twitter may increase interest in competing platforms.
Besides Mastodon, Bluesky, the decentralized social network co-founded by Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter appears to be welcoming many disenchanted Twitter users these days, even though it remains invite-only. Threads, Meta’s Twitter clone was also spotted on the Google Play Store this weekend.