According to TechCrunch, users can now view tweets without having an account or being logged in, and tweet preview links are properly unfurling in other apps like Slack, WhatsApp, and iMessage. Former Twitter CEO Elon Musk stated that these limits were put in place to address “extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation.” He described them as a temporary emergency measure due to data being heavily scraped, which degraded service for regular users.
