Twitter says rate limits were to help thwart bots, 'small percentage' of users currently affected

Recent usage limits connected Twitter were implemented to "detect and destruct bots and different atrocious actors," the institution said Tuesday, adding that lone a "small percentage" of users are presently affected.

"To guarantee the authenticity of our idiosyncratic basal we indispensable instrumentality utmost measures to region spam and bots from our platform," Twitter said in a blog post. "Any beforehand announcement connected these actions would have allowed atrocious actors to change their behaviour to evade detection."

The institution said the actions are intended to forestall accounts from scraping users' nationalist information to physique artificial quality models and from manipulating usage of the platform.

Twitter proprietor Elon Musk announced the limits connected Saturday, saying users would lone beryllium permitted to work a definite fig of posts per time owed to "extreme levels of information scraping" and "system manipulation."

Twitter billed the restrictions arsenic temporary, and they were tiered based connected a user's verification presumption connected the platform. The update came arsenic galore Twitter users encountered mistake messages erstwhile trying to entree the platform.

"Currently, the restrictions impact a tiny percent of radical utilizing the platform, and we volition supply an update erstwhile the enactment is complete. As it relates to our customers, effects connected advertizing person been minimal," Twitter said Tuesday.