Twitter to impose daily limits on DMs for unverified accounts, citing an effort to ‘reduce spam’

More arguable changes are coming to Twitter, with the societal media level acceptable to present regular nonstop connection (DM) limits for unverified users.

In a July 21 tweet, Twitter Support stated that the level volition “soon beryllium implementing immoderate changes successful our effort to trim spam successful Direct Messages.”

“Unverified accounts volition person regular limits connected the fig of DMs they tin send,” it stated, arsenic it prompted users to motion up for its subscription work Twitter Blue.

We'll soon beryllium implementing immoderate changes successful our effort to trim spam successful Direct Messages. Unverified accounts volition person regular limits connected the fig of DMs they tin send. Subscribe contiguous to nonstop much messages: https://t.co/0CI4NTRw75

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 21, 2023

It is has not been specified what what the regular limits volition beryllium astatine this stage, nevertheless determination has been a comparatively antagonistic absorption successful the comments, with some verified and unverified voicing their opinions connected the move.

The apical comment from idiosyncratic @FGRAdam has much than 1000 likes astatine the clip of writing, and offers a sceptical instrumentality connected the upcoming change:

“Changes similar this are wherefore different apps volition commencement to compete, don’t bounds your users connected the basal stuff, this is not what Twitter is about. The constituent of paying for Twitter bluish is truthful we person further features not to instrumentality distant a common, escaped diagnostic and enactment a paywall down it.”

“In our opinion, this is simply a income funnel to get much users verified and into [Twitter] Blue, not to combat spam,” added the fashionable national writer relationship @AustimCapital.

Several users besides argued that limiting DMs for unverified accounts would apt conscionable effect successful verified accounts being capable to spam successful DMs anyway.

While others suggested that the determination is much astir Twitter pushing radical to wage for verification to screen its hefty operational costs, alternatively than warring spam.

Sounds similar Twitter can't spend to wage for capable server capableness to enactment DMs anymore. https://t.co/6ovxRxNPVL

— David Olsen (@DDsD) July 21, 2023

The upcoming determination follows a big of extremist changes to the level that person been introduced nether Elon Musk’s ownership.

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On July 1, Twitter imposed a significant complaint limit connected the fig of posts users could spot daily, successful a bid to curb information scraping and “system manipulation.”

This subsequently saw Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta motorboat a Twitter alternate called Instagram Threads, which drew successful a batch of archetypal hype and a ample idiosyncratic basal lone for it to spell and present its ain complaint limits connected July 18.

In April, Twitter besides rolled retired content monetization settings connected its platform, enabling creators to monetize each forms of posts globally.

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