New Twitter CEO Speaks Publicly For The First Time: Confirms “Read Limits” Are Temporary But Necessary

Elon Musk had recently vacated the chair of the Twitter CEO and handed over the reins to Linda Yaccarino. Linda offered her first official statement after taking over the micro-blogging network and commented on the highly controversial limits imposed on the visibility of Tweets.

After Elon Musk attempted to justify the necessity of restricting all Twitter users to a certain number of Tweets per day, the platform's CEO Linda Yaccarino has spoken. Her comments indicate Twitter is actively working in the backend to address Twitter's shortfalls.

Twitter Wants To Ensure Authenticity Of Its User Base

Recently appointed Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has offered her first-ever comment since taking over the responsibility from Elon Musk. She spoke about the platform's controversial decision to impose temporary reading limits on its users.

Yaccarino strongly backed the action by stating:

"When you have a mission like Twitter - you need to make big moves to keep strengthening the platform. This work is meaningful and ongoing."

She even posted a link that promises to offer "more insight on our work to ensure the authenticity of our user base."

The page, titled Update on Twitter's Rate Limits, claims that to ensure the authenticity of the platform's user base, "we must take extreme measures to remove spam and bots from our platform."

The limits, which Yaccarino promises are for a short duration of time, s enabled Twitter engineers to "detect and eliminate bots and other bad actors that are harming the platform," adding that "any advance notice on these actions would have allowed bad actors to alter their behavior to evade detection."

Twitter Must Slow Down To Speed Up

Twitter published a blog post that claimed the platform is actively hunting bit accounts. The social media platform added that it is trying to restrict rampant data scraping and concluded by saying, "At times, even for a brief moment, you must slow down to speed up."

Twitter has indicated the platform is being used to train AI models. Needless to add, Elon Musk has been quite a vocal opponent of the way some tech giants are grabbing data, which has also attracted legal action.

Musk announced reading limits for Twitter users over the weekend. He claimed limitations on the visibility of Tweets were needed to address "extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation."

The new policy currently limits verified accounts to viewing 10,000 posts a day. Old unverified accounts can view 1,000 Tweets a day, and new unverified accounts can access only 500 Tweets per day.

The new rule also means people have to log in to view any Tweet on Twitter's web version. If that's not damaging enough, Twitter is also limiting TweetDeck to Twitter Blue subscribers.