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Backlash as Twitter owner Musk limits number of tweets users can see per day

Elon Musk has pushed back on what he calls misuse of Twitter data to train popular AI systems

Users started reporting issues accessing the social media site earlier Saturday, after they received notifications that they had exceeded their “rate limit.” Picture: Getty

Twitter owner Elon Musk has limited the amount of tweets that 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 long-time practice to allow everyone to peruse the chatter on what Musk has frequently touted as the world’s digital ...