Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of Twitter, revealed on Saturday the introduction of reading limits for users on the platform. This decision comes in response to numerous users encountering difficulties accessing the social media site.

In a tweet on Saturday afternoon, Musk specified that verified accounts will be restricted to reading a maximum of 6,000 posts per day. Unverified accounts will face a significant reduction, with their daily limit set at 600 posts.

Furthermore, new unverified users will only be able to access 300 posts per day.

Musk clarified that the recent alteration is a temporary measure aimed at tackling "excessive data scraping and system manipulation." This development marks the most recent instance of a widespread service disruption since his acquisition of the social media platform in the latter part of the previous year.

According to the National Broadcasting System (NBS), numerous users encountered error messages such as "Rate limit exceeded" or "Cannot retrieve tweets" when attempting to access or post content on Twitter's website or mobile app. By 11 a.m. Eastern Time, over 7,300 individuals had reported issues with Twitter on the Downdetector website.

Saturday's outage is not the first instance of technical difficulties experienced by Twitter in recent months. In February, users were unable to post on the platform for approximately 90 minutes due to a message indicating that they had surpassed their daily tweet limit. In March, users faced temporary difficulties clicking on links or loading images.

During other instances of outages, there were reports of a data center closure and significant layoffs at Twitter. Musk asserted that these measures were essential for the company's financial well-being.