Elon Musk has issued a statement addressing the chaotic issues affecting Twitter today as he announces a major change on the platform.
The tech billionaire who owns the social networking site spoke out after users all over the world reported major problems when trying to access the app on July 1, the Liverpool Echo reports.
Twitter users reported that they were unable to see tweets and were receiving a message stating 'rate limit exceeded.'
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In a tweet this evening, Mr Musk said that Twitter has now applied a limit to the number of tweets users can read in a day.
In his update, he said that unverified accounts can currently only read up to 600 posts a day. Meanwhile, verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day. Mr Musk has said that newly unverified accounts are limited to reading 300 posts per day.
Mr Musk's tweet said: "To address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits: verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts/day, unverified accounts to 600 posts/day, new unverified accounts to 300/day."
