Twitter will “quickly” implement each day limits on the variety of direct messages unverified accounts will be capable of ship in “an effort to cut back spam,” the corporate introduced on Friday via its Twitter Support account. In different phrases, to ship limitless DMs, you’ll must pay for a Twitter Blue subscription.
In its tweet, Twitter didn’t specify what the each day DM restrict could also be. On a support page, the corporate mentioned the adjustments could be applied starting Friday.
However a month later, he mentioned the then in-progress Twitter acquisition was “temporarily on hold” whereas he waited for particulars to help Twitter’s calculation that bots / spam solely accounted for lower than 5 % of its month-to-month energetic customers; days later, he asserted that the deal “cannot move forward” till Twitter proved the estimate. The acquisition eventually went through later within the 12 months.
Final week, Twitter launched a DM setting that the corporate mentioned was additionally supposed to assist scale back spam — however like this information, it doubles as one other approach to push Twitter Blue. When 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 primary inbox. However that change, which Twitter switched everybody with an open DM inbox over to, additionally turns off the power for individuals who don’t pay for Twitter Blue to message you at all. You possibly can swap again to permitting message requests from everybody, however you need to know the place to look.
Just a few weeks in the past, Musk additionally instituted “short-term” price limits on studying tweets, and beneath these limits, Twitter Blue subscribers may learn far more tweets than unverified users. It’s unclear if these price limits are nonetheless in place.