Twitter will now require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move owner Elon Musk on Friday called a “temporary emergency measure.”
Users who try to view content on the platform shall be asked to create an account or log into an existing account to see their favorite tweets.
“We were getting data stolen to the purpose that it was degrading the standard of service for normal users!” Musk said in tweet.
He added that a whole lot of organizations or more collect data from Twitter “extremely aggressively” influencing the user experience.
Musk has previously expressed dissatisfaction with AI corporations like OpenAI, owner of ChatGPT, using Twitter data to train their large language models.
“We’ll absolutely take legal motion against those that have stolen our data, and we glance forward to meeting them in court, which (optimistically) shall be in 2 to 3 years,” he said.
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In a letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro in May asked the tech giant to conduct an audit of Twitter’s content use, claiming that the Windows developer had breached the social media company’s data usage agreement.
The corporate has initiated a series of actions to bring back advertisers who left the platform under Musk’s ownership and to increase subscription revenue by incorporating verification tags into the Twitter Blue program.
Earlier this month, Twitter announced plans to concentrate on video, creator, and commerce partnerships to revitalize the social media company’s business beyond digital promoting.
Twitter has also began charging users for access to its application programming interface, which is utilized by third-party apps and researchers.