Temporary reading restrictions have been put in place on Twitter in reaction to data mining and system hacking. Verified users can read 6,000 posts each day, compared to 600 for unverified users and 300 for newly created unverified users.

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Elon Musk said on Twitter on Saturday that temporary reading restrictions have been put in place to address “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation. Elon Musk claimed that Twitter has implemented certain temporary constraints in order to combat excessive amounts of data scraping and system manipulation.

According to Elon Musk, unverified accounts and new unverified accounts are restricted to reading 600 posts per day and 300 posts per day, respectively, while verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts per day.

That follows Twitter’s announcement that users will need to have an account on the social media site in order to access tweets, a move that Musk dubbed on Friday a “temporary emergency measure.”

Musk claimed that at least a thousand companies were “extremely aggressively” harvesting Twitter data, which was negatively affecting user experience.

Musk had previously indicated his displeasure with artificial intelligence companies using Twitter’s data to train their huge language models, such as OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT.

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The social media site had already made several actions to woo back advertisers who had left Twitter under Musk’s ownership and to increase subscription revenue by including verification checkmarks into the Twitter Blue program.

Twitter users have not taken kindly to the announcement.