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Verified Twitter users will be allowed to view 10,000 posts per day, while new, unverified accounts will get 500 under the new limits. Social media platform Twitter is temporarily limit ing the number of posts that users will be allowed to read per day, after seeing “ extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation ,” according to executive chairman Elon Musk. In a July 1 post, Musk said the temporary limit s will see verified accounts capped at 10,000 posts per day, while unverified and new, unverified accounts are capped at 1,000 and 500 posts per day respectively: Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023 Twitter users had been reporting issues on the platform over the last few days including the inability to retrieve tweets, missing timelines, and being met with a "rate limited exceeded" message, leading to the hashtag #TwitterDown #TwitterFail to trend in certain jurisdictions. A screenshot of a Twitter user’s account — having reached t...

The community has been divided as to whether the NFT-like "digital artifacts" are the right fit for the Bitcoin ecosystem. The recent launch of a nonfungible token (NFT) protocol on the Bitcoin mainnet has the crypto community divided over whether it’ll be good for the Bitcoin ecosystem.  The protocol, referred to as “Ordinals,” was created by software engineer Casey Rodarmor, who officially launched the program on the Bitcoin mainnet following a Jan. 21 blog post. The protocol essentially allows for the Bitcoin version of NFTs — described as “digital artifacts” on the Bitcoin network. These “digital artificats” can comprise of JPEG-like images, PDFs, video and audio formats. Meme-inspired, NFT-like “digital artifacts” are now being inscripted on the Bitcoin network. Source: Ordinals. The introduction of the protocol has the Bitcoin community divided however, with some arguing that it would offer more financial use cases for Bitcoin, while others say its straying away fro...