Twitter’s latest rival, Instagram’s Threads, announced on Monday that it has tightened rate limits due to spam attacks.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri explained the spam problem in a post on the Threads saying, “Spam attacks have picked up so we’re going to have to get tighter on things like rate limits, which is going to mean more unintentionally limiting active people (false positives). If you get caught up [in] those protections let us know.”
The new development on Threads may affect the ability of users to use the app and view posts.
It would be recalled that as a result of a prolonged outage earlier this month, Twitter had to impose additional restrictions on how many tweets users could see.
At the time, Musk explained that Twitter was subject to “extreme levels of data scraping” from numerous organisations as well as other “system manipulation.” As a result, Twitter decided to address the issue by initially limiting unverified users’ access to 600 posts daily while granting Verified users (paying subscribers) access to a daily maximum of 6,000 posts. Musk eventually raised the limitations to 10,000 for verified accounts, 1,000 for unverified accounts, and 500 for brand-new unverified accounts in response to user complaints.
