Elon Musk says Twitter will limit number of posts users can view per day temporarily

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced Saturday that Twitter will start limiting the amount of posts a user can see per day on a temporary basis.

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Musk said on Twitter that the change is “to address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation.”

Musk also broke down the limitations. If you have a verified account, you can read up to 6,000 posts per day. Unverified accounts can view up to 600 posts a day. New unverified accounts can view 300 a day.

A short time after, Musk tweeted that the rate limits would increase to 8,000 tweets for verified users, 800 for unverified, and 400 for new unverified accounts but it was not clear when that would be, the Verge reported.

Some users tried to access or post content on Twitter Saturday either through the app or the website and got a “rate limit exceeded” or “cannot retrieve tweets” error message, according to CNBC. This was due to the new limits that Musk set, the Verge reported.

Around 11 a.m. EDT, over 7,000 users had reported the issue to Downdetector, CNBC reported. It was some kind of Twitter malfunction, according to The Washington Post.

It is not clear when how long these new restrictions are expected to be in place, according to the Post.