Twitter has limited how many tweets per day various accounts can read, to discourage “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation, executive chairman Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform last week.

At the time of writing, verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, and unverified accounts will be limited to 600 posts a day with new unverified accounts limited to 300.

The temporary reading limitation was later increased to 10,000 posts per day for verified users, 1,000 posts per day for unverified and 500 posts per day for new unverified users, Musk said in a separate post on Twitter, without providing further details on when it would be implemented.

Musk had said that hundreds of organisations or more were scraping Twitter data “extremely aggressively”, impacting user experience. Twitter was down for thousands of users last Saturday morning, according to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Nearly 7,500 users across the social media platform reported issues with accessing the app during the peak of the outage.