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[ad_1] Twitter has applied temporary reading limits to address "extreme levels" of data scraping and system manipulation, Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform on Saturday.Verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, Musk said, adding that the unverified accounts and new unverified accounts are limited to reading 600 posts a day and 300 posts per day respectively. That comes after Twitter had announced that it will require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move that Musk on Friday called a "temporary emergency measure." Musk had said that hundreds of organizations or more were scraping Twitter data "extremely aggressively", impacting user experience.Musk had earlier expressed displeasure with artificial int...

[ad_1] Even by Elon Musk's own accounting methods, taking Twitter private has been a disaster. Worth somewhere between half and one-third of the $44 billion he paid for it only seven months ago, the social media platform has become a case study of value destruction. There is an easy fix: Musk should take Twitter public now. The idea defies traditional logic, of course. In the ordinary world, a primary reason for taking a company private is to improve its operations and profitability before returning it to shareholders. Musk's world is not ordinary. He has fired more than 80% of Twitter's workforce, and it shows. Advertisers have fled in droves. He just hired a new CEO. Even putting aside the torching of several billion dollars, the glitchy vibe and a mission that could at best be summ...

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For His Next Trick, Musk Should Take Twitter Public