Why is Musk angry, and why is OpenAI being sued?
New Delhi: Elon Musk stumped netizens once again with his move to limit the number of posts on microblogging site Twitter which he now owns. On 1 July tweet, he tweeted that unverified accounts and new unverified accounts would be limited to reading 600 posts a day and 300 posts per day, respectively, while verified accounts could read 6,000 posts a day.
These “temporary" limits were raised by Musk to 10,000 posts per day for verified users, 1,000 posts per day for unverified and 500 posts per day for new unverified users. Musk believes his move will address the “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672)".
Twitter has a little over 360 million monthly active users with most of them in the US (about 80 million), followed by Japan (58 million) and India (about 24 million) but as I have pointed out earlier too (https://www.livemint.com/mint-top-newsletter/techtalk11112022.html), our online lives today are intricately intertwined with our offline lives, and what we do online impacts our real-world lives and vice versa. Online Twitter feeds spread through these thousands of newspapers and gets compounded by the fact that a single newspaper typically gets read by 3-5 people.
Add to that the hundreds of media websites replicating similar stories to increase their traffic (and get advertising). Twitter feeds also go viral on other social media networking and instant messaging apps, including Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook, Telegram and Signal, which collectively have nearly 3 billion users.
The end result is ‘Metcalfe’s Law’, which states that a network’s value is proportional to the square of the number of nodes in the network. In other words: What we
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