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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has reacted against the new curbs imposed on users to view tweets. Billionaire Elon Musk, who purchased Twitter in October last year from Dorsey, announced that users must have an account on the social media platform to view tweets.

Musk tweeted that it is a “temporary emergency measure,” to ward off people scraping the site for tweet data. “We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!”

Following this new major change on the platform, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey tweeted, “Running Twitter is hard. I don’t wish that stress upon anyone”. Dorsey agreed that the new curbs are in favor of the social media site and added, “It’s easy to criticize the decisions from afar…which I’m guilty of…but I know the goal is to see Twitter thrive. It will”.

“And I do hope they consider building on truly censorship-resistant open protocols like bitcoin and nostr to help ease that burden. Good for all, and critical to preserving the open internet,” Dorsey said.

Netizens reacted to Dorsey’s tweet. One user wrote, “Twitter is the only decent social app. Insta, Facebook. tiktok all cringe and shit”. Dorsey replied, “Agree”.

Another user wrote, “It is always disturbing how emotional people become when their Twitter is down for just a few moments”.

Dorsey responded, “People really love it and want it to succeed”.

Dorsey said, Twitter always had unmatched potential. Still does.

“It really makes me happy hearing you believe in Twitter thriving in the future. I do too,” another netizen replied to Dorsey.

Notably, Musk has made a string of product changes since he took over the San Francisco-based company last year. In March, Twitter began charging for access to its application programming interface, or API. Twitter’s API was used by popular third-party apps like the now-defunct Tweetbot and Twitterific, in addition to academic researchers. Now Twitter is charging customers $42,000 per month to access just 1% of tweets.

In April, Musk temporarily disabled likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet had a link to Substack, the newsletter platform. After complaints, Musk then reversed that change.

Twitter has also imposed a temporary cap on the number of tweets that accounts can see each day. Musk informed on Twitter that unverified users will be able to view as many as 1000 posts daily while Twitter Blue subscribers can see 10,000 posts “to address extreme levels of data scraping” and “system manipulation.”

After putting the limitation on viewing number of tweets musk tweeted that, “The reason I set a “View Limit” is because we are all Twitter addicts and need to go outside. I’m doing a good deed for the world here”.

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