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Current utilization limits on Twitter had been applied to “detect and remove bots and different dangerous actors,” the corporate mentioned Tuesday, including that solely a “small proportion” of customers are at present affected.
“To make sure the authenticity of our person base we should take excessive measures to take away spam and bots from our platform,” Twitter mentioned in a blog post. “Any advance discover on these actions would have allowed dangerous actors to change their conduct to evade detection.”
The corporate mentioned the actions are supposed to forestall accounts from scraping customers’ public knowledge to construct synthetic intelligence fashions and from manipulating use of the platform.
Twitter proprietor Elon Musk introduced the bounds on Saturday, saying customers would solely be permitted to learn a sure variety of posts per day because of “excessive ranges of knowledge scraping” and “system manipulation.”
Twitter billed the restrictions as momentary, they usually had been tiered primarily based on a person’s verification standing on the platform. The replace got here as many Twitter customers encountered error messages when attempting to entry the platform.
“At present, the restrictions have an effect on a small proportion of individuals utilizing the platform, and we are going to present an replace when the work is full. Because it pertains to our prospects, results on promoting have been minimal,” Twitter mentioned Tuesday.