The new Twitter restrictions came at the same time as widespread outages for users left them unable to access the platform.
"We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!" the billionaire wrote.
The stated cause of the change is hundreds of organizations that were scraping Twitter data "extremely aggressively," impacting user experience.are to blame, the SpaceX founder suggested in a reply to one user. "Almost every company doing AI, from startups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth, was scraping vast amounts of data. It is rather galling to have to bring large numbers of servers online on an emergency basis just to facilitate some AI startup’s outrageous valuation," he said in a tweet.
Many users are already reporting error messages on the platform and an inability to access their timelines. "Sorry, you are rate limited. Please wait a few moments then try again," a recurring system message states.
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