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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Yuxue Zhaitu, Domado, Monsterwolf, OC_Formula, Xichang old story, soft media new friend 1933769, soft media user 1942143, fengfeng, iasky, orchid is the clue delivery of me and Daniel Wu in South China! CTOnews.com, July 2 (Xinhua)-- Twitter boss Elon Musk recently announced that in order to prevent AI from grabbing a large number of Twitter data and affecting the experience of real users, he decided to limit the amount of Twitter reading.

Currently, unauthenticated accounts can only read 600 tweets a day, while newly registered unauthenticated accounts can only read 300. Verified accounts (including those that buy a Twitter Blue subscription for $8 a month, are certified through an organization or are forced by Musk) can only read a maximum of 6000 tweets a day. Musk also said the restrictions were "temporary" and would soon be raised to 8000, 800,400.

CTOnews.com noticed that just a day ago, Twitter suddenly began to block access by anyone who was not logged in, which Musk claimed was necessary because "hundreds of organizations (maybe more) are so active in grabbing Twitter data that it affects the experience of real users."

This is one of a series of changes Musk has made to the platform since he bought Twitter last fall. He successively launched a three-tier API charging system, Twitter Blue paid certification services, and appointed Linda Yakarino, a former NBC global advertising director, as the new CEO to restore relations with advertisers. Since Twitter has become a private company, we know very little about its financial situation, but Yakarino's appointment reflects the importance of advertising revenue to the Twitter business. However, limiting the number of tweets read by users clearly runs counter to the goal of creating more ad display opportunities.

Musk blames companies that are trying to obtain data for artificial intelligence training, such as those that developed large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing chat and Google Bard. But he did not mention that he has laid off more than half of his staff since taking over Twitter, including some key people who maintain its infrastructure. The hasty layoffs have even forced the company to rehire some laid-off engineers, and some have repeatedly warned that firing so many people will affect the stability of Twitter. A serious failure in March this year was caused by a change made by an engineer.

Earlier, Platformer reported that Twitter's bills owed to Google Cloud Computing for months had not been paid until recently, reflecting a "deep reduction plan" reported by Reuters to try to save millions of dollars in infrastructure costs every day. In November, a Twitter engineer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said in an interview that after layoffs, "things will go wrong more often, longer, and more serious."... there will be some minor problems at first, but as the back-end repairs are delayed, things will accumulate until people finally give up. " In the same article, Ben Krueger, a website reliability engineer, said, "I expect to start seeing major open technical issues within six months." It's been seven months now.

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