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Twitter has announced another change for users this week wherein the users will need to be verified in order to use TweetDeck. The change will take effect in 30 days, according to the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Twitter made the announcement in a tweet detailing an improved version of TweetDeck with new features. It was unclear if Twitter would charge users for both the new and old versions of TweetDeck.<\/p>\n
TweetDeck is widely used by businesses and news organizations to easily monitor content. And charging for TweetDeck could bring a revenue boost to Twitter, which has struggled to retain advertising revenue under billionaire Elon Musk<\/a>s ownership.<\/p>\n The announcement comes just days after Elon Musk temporarily imposed restrictions on the number of tweets users could read per day. Going by the announcement, a verified Twitter user can read up to 10,000 tweets in a day; non-verified users–the free accounts that make up the majority of users–are limited to reading 1,000 tweets per day.<\/p>\n New unverified accounts would be limited to 500 tweets.<\/p>\n The decision was made “to address extreme levels of data scraping” and “system manipulation” by third-party platforms, Musk said.<\/p>\n Musk said that much of the data scraping was coming from firms using it to build their AI models and was causing traffic issues on the site.<\/p>\n “Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience,” Musk said.<\/p>\n