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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...

Ice phishing is a type of scam that exists only in Web3 and is a “considerable threat” to the crypto community, said the firm. Blockchain Security company CertiK has reminded the crypto community to stay alert over “ice phishing ” Scams — a unique type of phishing scam targeting Web3 users — first identified by Microsoft earlier this year.  In a Dec. 20 analysis report, CertiK described ice phishing scams as an attack that tricks Web3 users into signing permissions which end up allowing a scammer to spend their tokens. This differs from traditional phishing attacks which attempt to access confidential information such as private keys or passwords, such as the fake websites set up which claimed to help FTX investors recover funds lost on the exchange. #CertiKSkynetAlert 1/ Ice phishing is a considerable threat to the Web3 community Instead of gaining accessing to your private key, scammers trick you into signing permissions to spend your assets. We’ll outline below what to look out f...

Ever since the collapse of the centralized crypto exchange FTX, people from the space have been looking for alternatives. As a result, decentralization has now become more relevant than ever. Activity on DEXes has seen a substantial improvement of late, with people wanting to have control over their own crypto. Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has now taken the conversation a step further. In a recent post, Dorsey batted for a decentralized alternative to Twitter. The former executive of the social media platform underlined Twitter’s censorship issues and then went on to talk about the importance of a “free and open protocol” for social media. Chalking out the principles he believed in, Dorsey first emphasized that social media must be “resilient to corporate and government control.” He stressed that only the original author should only have control to remove content they produce. Dorsey further opined that content takedowns and suspensions should not be ...