More controversial changes are coming to Twitter, as the social media platform is set to introduce daily Direct Message (DM) limits for unverified users.
In a tweet dated July 21, Twitter support stated that the platform will “soon implement some changes in our efforts to reduce spam in Direct Messages.”
He stated that “unverified accounts will have daily limits on the number of direct messages they can send”, prompting users to sign up for the subscription service Twitter Blue.
We’ll soon be implementing some changes in our efforts to reduce Direct Messages spam. Unverified accounts will have a daily limit on the number of direct messages they can send. Subscribe today to send more messages: https://t.co/0CI4NTRw75
– Twitter Support July 21, 2023
Twitter didn’t set daily limits, and there was relatively negative reaction in the comments, with both verified and unverified expressing their opinions on the go.
the above comment From Adam who has over 1,000 likes at the time of writing and offers a skeptical view on the upcoming change:
“Changes like this are why other apps will start to compete, don’t limit your users to basic stuff, that’s not what Twitter is about. The point of paying for Twitter Blue is that we have extras to not remove a free common feature and put a firewall behind it.”
“In our opinion, this is a sales funnel to getting more verified users and onboarding [Twitter] Blue, not anti-spam. added Famous citizen journalist AustimCapital account.
Several users have also argued that restricting direct messages to unverified accounts will likely result in only verified accounts being able to spam in direct messages anyway.
Others pointed out that the move was more about Twitter getting people to pay for verification to cover its high operating costs than fighting spam.
It seems Twitter can’t afford enough server capacity to support DMs anymore. https://t.co/6ovxRxNPVL
– David Olsen (DDsD) July 21, 2023
The next move comes after a set of drastic changes to the platform introduced under Elon Musk’s ownership.
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On July 1, Twitter imposed a large rate cap on the number of posts users could see per day in an effort to limit data scraping and “gameing the system”.
This later saw Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta launch a Twitter alternative called Thread, which attracted a lot of initial hype and a large user base, only to go ahead and introduce its own pricing limits on July 18th.
In April, Twitter also rolled out content monetization settings on its platform, allowing creators to monetize all forms of posts globally.
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