Twitter temporarily restricts tweets users can see, Elon Musk announces

Twitter has applied a temporary limit to the number of tweets users can read in a day, owner Elon Musk has said. "We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users," Mr Musk explained on Friday, after users were presented with screens asking them to log in to view Twitter content. Twitter has already started charging users to access its application programming interface, which is often used by third party apps and researchers - which can include AI companies. Mr Musk has been pushing people towards Twitter Blue, its paid subscription service. In another update Mr Musk said "Several hundred organisations were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively".

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