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Twitter CEO defends temporary tweet limit while addressing concerns of data scraping and system manipulation. Advertising remains stable despite criticism.
Twitter's decision to implement temporary post limits comes as a response to the significant levels of data scraping and system manipulation experienced on the platform
500 for new unverified. 1,000 tweets is more than enough for someone to read in a day. dedicateed users can hit it during scrolling. data scraping is where automated services like a.i. scrape up all the publicly available data on the website. not everyone is buying the explanation. they accuse him of putting it behind the pay wall saying it -- we reached out to twitter to ask if musk -- we haven't heard back yet. it is a strange turn. twitter is attempting to repair relationships with advertisers. advertisers want eyeballs, right? send it back to you. >> julie: questionable decision but noneth...
Controversial new twitter policy limiting how many posts a user can see per day. thousands for verified users, hundreds for unverified. many users were outraged, as you can imagine, at these restrictions. musk says they are necessary. kelly o'grady is live in los angeles with more. there are so many people furious about this. people are leaving twitter all together because of it. >> that's right. truth social is really gaining in downloads with all this happening. a lot of unhappy twitter users over the weekend. what happened is saturday morning musk shared this tweet announced the new rate li...
>> elon musk upsetting twitter users this weekend, limiting the number of posts seen on the platform. those who pay for blue checks can see 10,000. elon says it's a way to fight artificial companies from, quote, extreme levels half data scraping. folks are furious. judge jeanine, are you furious? >> extreme levels of data scraping. i don't know what that means. yeah. look. he's not the government. he's big business. i don't know what his motivation is. there's something else going on here. there's definitely something else going on.