Twitter to soon increase rate limits: Musk

San Francisco Twitter-owner Elon Musk on Sunday announced that the "rate limits" will "soon" increase on the micro-blogging platform.

Musk on Saturday said that verified accounts have been limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts will be able to read 600 posts per day and new unverified accounts just 300 posts a day. In an update on Sunday, he said that "rate limits" will be increasing "soon" to 8,000 for verified, 800 for unverified and 400 for new unverified accounts.

After a few hours, he posted, "Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k." Musk also said, "Oh the irony of hitting view limits due to complaining about view limits." "The reason I set a 'View Limit' is because we are all Twitter addicts and need to go outside. I’m doing a good deed for the world here," he explained. According to Musk, this change is temporary to "address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation."