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I can't even think of a financial or business reason for him to do this that makes sense, he must just want to run Twitter into the ground
Elon claims bots are grossly scraping the platform with logged in accounts. Sure, this harsh limit might reduce scraping, but legitimate users are being blocked
Same reason as Huffmann killing 3rd party apps: these sad little boys are mad that AÍ startups are training models on user-generated content.
I think he's pretty willing for it to be his personal toy until it breaks down completely. It's not like he needs to worry about being personally accountable, he can afford it.
I suspect when it does finally die though, he will miss the hourly hit of virtual cocksucking he gets from his fans. ChatGPT just doesn't hit the same.