According to Musk, authenticated accounts are only permitted to read 6,000 posts every day. Posts per day for unverified users are dramatically reduced to 600.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, stated on Saturday that he is capping the number of tweets that users can read each day as thousands of users encounter difficulties accessing the social media platform.

Musk stated that verified accounts are only allowed to see 6,000 posts each day in a tweet on Saturday afternoon. Posts per day for unverified users are dramatically reduced to 600. Only 300 posts can be accessed daily by new, unverified users.

The latest tweak, according to Musk, was implemented temporarily to “address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation.” It’s the most significant disruption to have occurred since he bought the social media platform late last year.

Many users encountered “Rate limit exceeded” or “Cannot retrieve tweets” problem messages when attempting to access or upload content on Twitter’s website or mobile application. More than 7,300 users had reported problems with Twitter as of 11 a.m. ET, according to the website Downdetector.

Twitter’s standard feces emoji was used as a response to CNBC’s request for comment.

The outage that occurred on Saturday is not the first one Twitter has experienced in recent months. Users were prevented from posting for roughly 90 minutes in February after seeing a warning that said, “You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets.” Users experienced a brief inability to load photos or click on links in March.

Other failures coincided with news of Twitter’s data center closure and significant staff reductions, which Musk claimed were essential for the company’s financial stability.