Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has defended Elon Musk in response to the social media boss’s decision to introduce “rate caps” that limit the number of tweets users can see per day.
“Running Twitter is difficult,” Dorsey tweeted on Monday.
“I do not wish this sort of stress on anyone. I trust that the team is doing the best they will despite the limitations they’ve, that are huge.
Dorsey, who was Twitter’s CEO from 2006 until late 2021, added: “It is easy to criticize decisions from afar… for which I’m in charge… but I do know the goal is to grow Twitter. It can be.”
Musk announced on Saturday that the site would limit the number of tweets users can view every day – restrictions he described as an try and prevent unauthorized downloading of potentially invaluable data from his social media platform.
The positioning now requires people to log in to view tweets and profiles – a change from its long-standing practice to permit anyone to listen to a chat about what Musk has often touted as a world digital marketplace since buying it for $44 billion last yr .
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Restrictions may result in users being banned from Twitter for a day after scrolling through several hundred tweets.
The post asked for comment on Twitter.
Hundreds of users complained on Saturday about the lack of access to the site.
Musk said the move was a “temporary emergency measure.”
On Saturday afternoon, verified accounts could read as much as 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts 600 per day, and latest unverified accounts 300 per day.
Hours later, the numbers were updated to “10,000, 1,000, and 0.5,000” respectively, Musk said.
“We looted data a lot that it was degrading the quality of service for normal users!” Musk said in tweet.
He added that tons of of organizations or more collect data from Twitter “extremely aggressively” influencing the user experience.
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Musk has previously expressed dissatisfaction with AI corporations like OpenAI, owner of ChatGPT, using Twitter data to coach their large language models.
Dorsey was replaced as Twitter CEO by Parag Agrawal before he and the entire management team were fired after Musk acquired the site for $44 billion last October.