Skip to main content
Image
By
ELON MUSK IMPOSES DAILY LIMITS ON READING POSTS ON TWITTER 
  Twitter owner Elon Musk has limited the amount of tweets most users can view each day — restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorised scraping of potentially valuable data from the social media platform.

    The site is now requiring people to log on to view tweets and profiles — a change in its longtime practice to allow everyone to peruse the chatter on what Musk has frequently touted as the world's digital town square since buying it for $44 billion last year.

   The restrictions could result in users being locked out of Twitter for the day after scrolling through several hundred tweets. Thousands of users complained over the weekend of not being able to access the site.
      
    In a Friday tweet, Musk described the new restrictions as a temporary measure that was taken because "we were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!"

   Musk has pushed back on what he calls misuse of Twitter data to train popular artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT. They scour reams of information online to generate human-like text, photos, video and other content.

   Musk elaborated on the limits on Saturday, saying unverified accounts will temporarily be restricted to reading 600 posts per day, while verified accounts will be able to scroll through up to 6,000.
After facing backlash, he tweeted that the thresholds would be raised to 800 posts for unverified accounts and 8000 for verified accounts before later settling on 1000 and 10,000 tweets, respectively.

   The crackdown began to have ripple effects, causing more than 7500 people at one point on Saturday (early Sunday AEST) to report problems using the social media service, based on complaints registered on DownDetector, a website that tracks online outages.
  
     Although that's a relatively small number of Twitter's more than 200 million worldwide users, the trouble was widespread enough to cause the #TwitterDown hashtag to trend in some parts of the world.

   The higher threshold allowed on verified accounts is part of an $US8-per-month ($12) subscription service that Musk rolled out earlier this year in an effort to boost Twitter revenue. It has fallen sharply since the billionaire Tesla CEO took over the company and laid off roughly three-fourths of the workforce to cut costs and stave off bankruptcy.

   Advertisers have since curbed their spending on Twitter, partly because of changes that have allowed more sometimes-hateful and prickly content that offends a wider part of the service's audience.

   

Musk recently hired longtime NBC Universal executive Linda Yaccarino as Twitter's CEO to try to win back advertisers.
An Associated Press inquiry about Saturday's access problems triggered a crude automated reply that Twitter sends to most media queries without addressing the question.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

You are gifted naturally to succeed and survive. Stay safe!

Popular Posts

NATIONWIDE REGISTRATION OF ALL ARTISANS

By
OGUN STATE FEDERAL SECRETARIAT COMPLEX, OKE-MOSAN, ABEOKUTA. E-MAIL: ndeogun2@yahoo.com ndeogun@gmail.com NATIONWIDE REGISTRATION OF ALL ARTISANS The Federal Government of Nigeria through one of her agencies NATIONAL DIRECTORATE OF EMPLOYMENT has commenced the registration of all categories of ARTISANS Nationwide. The registration covers amongst others Auto-Mobile, Autotronics/Mechatronics, Auto-Electrical, Arc and Gas Welding, Barbing, Catering and Hotel Management, Carpentry and Furniture Making, GSM Repairs, Computer Operations, Maintenance and Programming, Hairdressing, Cosmetology, Tailoring and Fashion Designing, Tie & Dye etc. For more enquiries/and registration, please visit any of the following centres nearest to you. * NDE Ogun State office, Federal Secretariat Complex Oke Mosan Abeokuta Tel: 08033475403, 08056562628, 07031365577 *ALL THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENTS in all the twenty (20) Local Government Areas in Ogun State. "NDE Skills Acquisition Training Ce...
Post a Comment
Read more

List Of Schools Whose Post UTME Admission Screening Forms Are Out

By
Underlisted below is a list of Schools whose Post UTME Admission Screening Forms are out. Candidates who applied for admission into these schools are by this notice encouraged to visit their respective school portal or website for more detailed information on the Venue and date of their Post UTME screening test. Other Schools that are yet to release theirs will be published here on this page as soon as it is out. List Of Schools Whose Post UTME Admission Screening Forms Are Out In the meantime, listed below are the Schools whose Post UTME Admission Screening Forms have been released:- Nigerian Universities Post UTME Forms 2018/2019 *.Abia State University, Uturu – ABSU Post UTME – 2018/19 *.Michael Otedola College of Primary Education – MOCPED (Affiliated to UI) Post UTME – 2018/19 *.Paul University, Awka – PAU Post UTME – 2018/19 *.Joseph Ayo Babalola University – JABU Post UTME – 2018/19 *.Tai Solarin University of Education – TASUED Post UTME – 2018/19 *.Arthur Jarvis Univ...
Post a Comment
Read more

List of universities that accept low jamb score for admission

By
This Nigerian Universities Accept Low JAMB Scores For Admission Admission, Articles, JAMB 4 Comments The significant issue confronted my JAMB candidates now is low JAMB scores. Along these lines, there are chances that huge numbers of them will fail to get admission into their schools of choice since numerous schools acknowledges 180 as their cut off check Hence, we have listed some schools that accept low JAMB Score for you. All you require is to keep an eye out when their post utme shape will be released and apply quickly, prepare and sit for their post utme examination. In the event that you perform well, you will be eligible to participate in their utme. By so doing, you don’t squander one more year or writing another JAMB. List of Nigerian Universities That Accepts Low JAMB Scores for Admission 1.Federal University of Technology Owerri, FUTO 2.University of Jos UNIJOS 3.Niger Delta University NDU 4.TAI Solarin University of Education TASUED 5.Federal University Dutsin-Ma,...
Post a Comment
Read more