The owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, said Friday that the change was a “temporary emergency measure” that will require users to sign up for an account to see tweets.
If a user wants to see material on the platform, they will have to sign up for an account or sign in to an existing account.
Twitter experiences a huge amount of data stolen that it made service worse for regular users.
Elon Musk also stated that hundreds or even thousands of organizations were “extremely aggressively” scraping Twitter data, which hurt the user experience.
Musk has said before that he doesn’t like it when AI companies like OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT, use Twitter data to train their big language models.
Elon Musk assured the public that Twitter will take legal action against those who stole data.
In May, Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro sent a letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella asking the tech giant to do an audit of how it uses Twitter’s content. He said that the Windows developer had broken a deal about using Twitter’s data.
The company has taken a number of steps to bring back advertisers who left when Musk was in charge and to increase subscription income by making verification check marks part of the Twitter Blue program.
Twitter said earlier this month that it was going to focus on video, creator, and commerce partnerships to boost its business beyond digital ads.
Twitter has also started charging users to use its application programming interface (API), which is used by third-party apps and researchers.
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