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Twitter implements new “rate limit” to combat data scraping
The hashtag "Twitter Down" trended on Saturday as thousands of users received "Rate Limit Exceeded" messages, initially indicating an outage. However, it was later revealed in a tweet by Twitter CEO Elon Musk to be a temporary policy change implemented by Twitter due to concerns over data scraping and system manipulation.
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