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

Extra controversial modifications are coming to Twitter, with the social media platform set to introduce every day direct message (DM) limits for unverified customers.

In a July 21 tweet, Twitter Assist said that the platform will “quickly be implementing some modifications in our effort to scale back spam in Direct Messages.”

“Unverified accounts could have every day limits on the variety of DMs they’ll ship,” it said, because it prompted customers to join its subscription service Twitter Blue.

We’ll quickly be implementing some modifications in our effort to scale back spam in Direct Messages. Unverified accounts could have every day limits on the variety of DMs they’ll ship. Subscribe at present to ship extra messages: https://t.co/0CI4NTRw75

— Twitter Assist (@TwitterSupport) July 21, 2023

It’s has not been specified what what the every day limits can be at this stage, nevertheless there was a comparatively adverse response within the feedback, with each verified and unverified voicing their opinions on the transfer.

The highest comment from person @FGRAdam has greater than 1000 likes on the time of writing, and presents a sceptical tackle the upcoming change:

“Adjustments like this are why different apps will begin to compete, don’t restrict your customers on the essential stuff, this isn’t what Twitter is about. The purpose of paying for Twitter blue is so we now have extra options not to remove a standard, free function and put a paywall behind it.”

“In our opinion, it is a gross sales funnel to get extra customers verified and into [Twitter] Blue, to not fight spam,” added the favored citizen journalist account @AustimCapital.

A number of customers additionally argued that limiting DMs for unverified accounts would possible simply lead to verified accounts having the ability to spam in DMs anyway.

Whereas others advised that the transfer is extra about Twitter pushing folks to pay for verification to cowl its hefty operational prices, quite than preventing spam.

Feels like Twitter cannot afford to pay for sufficient server capability to help DMs anymore. https://t.co/6ovxRxNPVL

— David Olsen (@DDsD) July 21, 2023

The upcoming transfer follows a number of radical modifications to the platform which were launched underneath Elon Musk’s possession.

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On July 1, Twitter imposed a significant rate limit on the variety of posts customers may see every day, in a bid to curb knowledge scraping and “system manipulation.”

This subsequently noticed Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta launch a Twitter various referred to as Instagram Threads, which drew in a whole lot of preliminary hype and a big person base just for it to go and introduce its own rate limits on July 18.

In April, Twitter additionally rolled out content monetization settings on its platform, enabling creators to monetize all types of posts globally.

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