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Elon Musk sets new daily Twitter limits for users

Updated July 1, 2023 at 5:05 p.m. EDT|Published July 1, 2023 at 2:35 p.m. EDT
Elon Musk in D.C. on Oct. 4. (Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images)
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Elon Musk announced Saturday that Twitter will temporarily limit the number of tweets users can read per day — with separate limits for paid and unpaid users — to combat computer programs that comb through posts to extract useful data from the platform.

It’s unclear how long the limits will last, and what lifting them will depend on. Musk did not respond to a request for comment.