Since Saturday, the social network Twitter has been restricting the reading of publications to its users, which has led to criticism worldwide.

Elon Musk, owner of the platform, announced through his account that the measure was taken to prevent “extreme levels of data extraction and manipulation of the system”. He also ironized that his announcement became the most read publication.

It was initially stated that limits were set at a maximum of 6,000 tweets per day for verified accounts, while unauthenticated accounts were only 600 and new unauthenticated accounts were 300.

Then it went to 8,000 for verified, 800 for unverified, and 400 for new. Finally, he set the limit at 10,000 tweets for verified accounts, 1,000 for unauthenticated accounts, and 500 for new unauthenticated accounts.

Despite everything, the initial announcement of the limits caused a stir on the network, with many users reporting problems accessing the content, and that first message garnered more than 455 million reads this Sunday morning.

“In another exercise of irony, this publication has a record number of views!” said the businessman, who sarcastically noted in another post how users reached read limits “by reading over the limits” and complaining about the size.

According to Downdetector’s monitoring page, problems with access to the social network peaked after the initial announcement, with some 7,000 reported, but normalized throughout the day and did not exceed 1,000 this Sunday morning.

Aside from that, Musk retweeted a message from a parody account, possibly giving an approving nod, stating that the reason for those limits being imposed is that “we’re all addicted to Twitter and we need to get out there.”

He himself made a comment this Sunday that seemed to allude to that idea: “You wake up from a deep trance, you walk away from the phone to see your friends and family.”