There’s Now a Limit on How Many Tweets You Can Read a Day

Calling for the attention of all Twitter users.

Your use of the popular microblogging site now faces forced limitations imposed by the Twitter owner himself.

The good thing is that these limitations are temporary while the site battles against nefarious forces scrapping its site and manipulating its systems.

Here is what you need to know.

Twitter Implements Temporary Limit to the Number of Posts You Can Read

This news is hot out of the oven. Elon Musk, Twitter’s current (controversial) owner, announced in a tweet earlier this week that read limits have been introduced on Twitter.

This means you can only read up to a certain number of posts in a day.

The limits vary between verified accounts and unverified accounts. New unverified accounts can read fewer posts than unverified accounts which have been created for a while.

Those with a verified account can read up to 10,000 posts daily. The number of posts an unverified account can read is 1,000. New unverified accounts have it the worst at 500 posts a day.

Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023

Well, we guess this is one way to reduce your time on social media.

If you’re wondering why Musk has suddenly implemented limits on the number of Twitter posts you can read in a day, it is not because he wants to stop your mindless scrolling out of the goodness of his heart (as a Musk parody account suggested).

The reason I set a “View Limit” is because we are all Twitter addicts and need to go outside.

I’m doing a good deed for the world here.

Also, that’s another view you just used.

— Elon Musk (Parody) (@ElonMuskAOC) July 1, 2023

Musk shared on his (public and verified) Twitter account that the limits were imposed to “address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation”.

To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:

– Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
– Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
– New unverified accounts to 300/day

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023

These limits were supposed to be “temporary”, though there was no elaboration on when the limits would end.

View Limits Were Revised Several Times

If anything, Musk seems to be making good on his promise of the limits being temporary. Since he announced the imposition of view limits, the limits have been revised several times.

The initial read limit was 6,000 posts daily for verified accounts, 600 posts for unverified accounts, and 300 posts for new verified accounts.

The numbers were then revised to 8,000, 600 and 400, respectively, just two hours after the initial announcement, possibly due to the dissatisfaction about read limits.

About three hours later, that limit was further revised to the 10,000, 1,000 and 500 numbers we now face.

Before you complain about the view limits, ensure you don’t hit the limits in your tirade. Musk publicly laughed at those who hit the view limits due to “complaining about view limits”.