Elon Musk’s best idea to stop spambots is to make you pay for extra Twitter DMs

The company announced Friday that Twitter will “soon” implement daily limits on the number of direct messages sent by unverified accounts in an “effort to reduce spam.” via your twitter support account, In other words, to send unlimited DMs, you need to pay for Twitter Blue membership.

Twitter in its tweet did not specify what the daily DM limit could be. But a help pageThe company said the changes will come into effect from Friday.

But a month later, he said that the then-in-progress Twitter acquisition had been “temporarily paused” while he waited for details to support Twitter’s calculation that bots/spam only accounted for less than five percent of its monthly active users; A few days later, he insisted that the deal “cannot proceed” until Twitter can prove the conjecture. The acquisition eventually took place at the end of the year.

Last week, Twitter introduced a dm setting The company said it was also intended to help reduce spam — but like this news, it’s just another way to push Twitter Blue. Twitter’s new setting moves DMs of verified users you don’t follow if you have your DMs open Secondary “Message Request” inbox instead of your main inbox. But that change, which Twitter has rolled out to everyone with an open DM inbox, also turns off the ability for people who don’t pay for Twitter Blue. just message you, You can switch back to allowing message requests from everyone, but you need to know where to look.

A few weeks ago, Musk also instituted a “temporary” rate limit on tweet reads, and under those limits, Twitter Blue customers could read far more tweets than unverified users. It’s unclear whether those rate limits are still in place.