Tweet of clay: will Twitter’s demise bring down Elon Musk?

Controversial rate limits come as Meta prepares to launch its rival to the social media platform

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Many are wondering if Musk had planned to destroy the platform all along
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Twitter faced an angry backlash from its users after Elon Musk said the platform was introducing temporary limits on the number of posts that can be viewed.

The billionaire entrepreneur, who bought Twitter for $44 billion in October, announced the “temporary measure” in a tweet on Saturday. He said it was “to address extreme levels of data scraping” on the site by artificial intelligence companies.

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.