Twitter owner, Elon Musk, has limited the daily number of tweets users can read on the microblogging site.

Musk announced this on Saturday as thousands of Twitter users reported problems attempting to access the social media site.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, adding that the limitation was applied to address “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation.

The world’s richest person tweeted: “To address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:

“Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day.

“Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day.

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“New unverified accounts to 300/day.”

Many users, who tried to access or post content on Twitter’s website or mobile app, were met with a “Rate limit exceeded” or “Cannot retrieve tweets” error message on Saturday.

As of 4:00 p.m., more than 7,300 people reported issues with Twitter to the website Downdetector.

Saturday’s outage is not the first time Twitter has suffered technical difficulties in recent months.

In February, users were unable to post on the site for about 90 minutes after receiving a message that read: “You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets.”

In March, users were temporarily unable to click on links or load images.

Other outages coincided with reports of a data centre closure and massive layoffs at Twitter, which Musk, who bought the social media platform in 2022 for $44 billion, claimed were necessary for the financial health of the company.

The Star