Twitter has introduced to limit direct messages (DMs) for unverified accounts to be able to cut back spam on the platform.
The corporate mentioned it’s going to quickly be implementing some modifications “in our effort to scale back spam in Direct Messages”.
“Unverified accounts may have every day limits on the variety of DMs they will ship,” the corporate mentioned.
To ship limitless DMs, a Twitter person will now must pay for a Twitter Blue subscription.
Twitter, nonetheless, didn’t specify what the every day DM restrict is perhaps. The modifications could be carried out starting Friday.
Final week, the micro-blogging platform added a brand new messages setting to assist cut back the variety of spam messages in DMs.
With the brand new setting enabled, messages from customers who you comply with will arrive in your main inbox, and messages from verified customers who you don’t comply with can be despatched to your message request inbox.
“Customers who beforehand had their permissions set to permit message requests from everybody can be migrated to this new setting, however can change again at any time,” mentioned the corporate.
Earlier, Musk had put “short-term” charge limits on studying tweets.
He had mentioned that “If our twitter bid succeeds, we are going to defeat the spam bots or die attempting”.
Twitter final week claimed that greater than 99.99 per cent of Tweet impressions are from wholesome content material or content material that doesn’t violate the platform’s guidelines.
“Our dedication to our neighborhood is straightforward and clear — keep free expression and make Twitter a protected area for everybody,” Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted.
“We’ll proceed to take away essentially the most critical violations of our guidelines, resembling unlawful content material, and droop unhealthy actors from our platform,” Twitter mentioned.