He explained: “Verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts per day. Unverified accounts, 600 posts/day. New unverified accounts 300/day”.
Twitter users reported problems without realising what was coming
Thousands of users reported various problems throughout the day. Messages such as: ‘Sorry, you’ve reached the query frequency limit. Wait a few seconds and try again’, was the most common problem, along with: ‘Something went wrong. Try reloading’.
After several months of negotiations, the billionaire purchased Twitter last October for a total of $44,000 million. Since then, he has done his best to disrupt and modify what used to be a free platform.
His controversial decisions have followed one another. He embarked on an aggressive policy of laying off workers not long after taking control.
Users must pay $8 (£6.30) to be verified
After criticising the previous management over the way they ran the platform, Musk immediately trimmed a workforce of about 8,000 down to around 1,500 in a very short space of time.
Musk then implemented the withdrawal of all verified profiles to make them paid – except accounts with more than a million followers. To get the verification badge – or ‘blue tick’ – users must now pay $8 (£6.30) as a subscription each month.
This latest action to ‘temporarily’ limit the number of tweets that users can read has caused a great deal of consternation today.
According to Downdetector, the website which tracks online outages, a total of 5,126 Twitter users had reported problems by 16:12 pm BST. Similarly, at the same time in America, around 7,461 people had reported glitches.
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