Twitter CEO Backs Widely Criticized Tweet-Reading Rate Limits

Twitter CEO Backs Widely Criticized Tweet-Reading Rate Limits
The logo for Twitter on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on June 1, 2022. Brendan McDermid/Reuters
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Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino on Tuesday wrote in a tweet a defense of the temporary cap announced on July 1 on the number of tweets users can read in a day, and the company said advertizing has been stable in the days since the step that drew heavy criticism from users and marketing professionals.

Ms. Yaccarino wrote in her tweet: “when you have a mission like Twitter—you need to make big moves to keep strengthening the platform.” It was her first public comment on the limits announced on Saturday by owner Elon Musk, who said the step was meant to discourage “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation.