Twitter will “quickly” implement every day limits on the variety of direct messages unverified accounts will have the ability to ship in “an effort to scale back spam,” the corporate introduced on Friday via its Twitter Support account. In different phrases, to ship limitless DMs, you’ll have to pay for a Twitter Blue subscription.
In its tweet, Twitter didn’t specify what the every day DM restrict could also be. On a support page, the corporate stated the modifications can be carried out starting Friday.
However a month later, he stated the then in-progress Twitter acquisition was “briefly on maintain” whereas he waited for particulars to help Twitter’s calculation that bots / spam solely accounted for lower than 5 % of its month-to-month lively customers; days later, he asserted that the deal “can not transfer ahead” till Twitter proved the estimate. The acquisition finally went by means of later within the yr.
Final week, Twitter launched a DM setting that the corporate stated was additionally meant to assist scale back spam — however like this information, it doubles as one other option to push Twitter Blue. In case you have your DMs open, Twitter’s new setting strikes DMs from verified customers that you simply don’t observe into the secondary “message request” inbox as a substitute of your most important inbox. However that change, which Twitter switched everybody with an open DM inbox over to, additionally turns off the flexibility for individuals who don’t pay for Twitter Blue to message you at all. You’ll be able to swap again to permitting message requests from everybody, however it’s a must to know the place to look.
A number of weeks in the past, Musk additionally instituted “momentary” charge limits on studying tweets, and underneath these limits, Twitter Blue subscribers might learn much more tweets than unverified customers. It’s unclear if these charge limits are nonetheless in place.
