Twitter Will Limit Your Direct Messages Unless You Pay Up

Twitter is taking aim at another ban that is designed to force people to pay money for Twitter Blue membership. on Friday, a tweet from twitter support Announced that unverified users will have a daily limit on the number of direct messages they can send. Although it did not specify how many DMs you would be able to send, the tweet urged people to subscribe to be able to send more messages.

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To justify this latest hurdle, Twitter said the goal was to reduce spam in direct messages. Twitter users who tweak their settings to receive DMs may end up with junk messages from spammers.

The company has recently implemented some new options to deal with the spam problem. Instead of opting out of receiving DMs from everyone, you can do this Allow messages only from people you follow or only allow messages from verified users, Additionally, you are able to filter out low-quality messages, which means that DMs identified as spam are forwarded to a separate inbox.

In another friday tweetTwitter Support said the new options resulted in a 70% reduction in Direct Message spam compared to last week. So if the new options are helping to combat spam, why limit the number of DMs unverified users can send?

Twitter views the fight against DM spam as an ongoing effort that may require a number of solutions. But many Twitter users see this latest restriction as simply an attempt to encourage more Twitter Blue signups. Some point out that spammers can easily pay for a Blue membership, which costs $8 per month for individuals or $84 per year. Daily DM limits will also affect legitimate discussions and conversations between unverified users.

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One user tweeted, “some changes being implemented to reduce spam in DM but still verified accounts can still spam? If the goal is really to reduce direct messages why not make it normal.” “If it’s really about spam, we should whitelist people to send us messages without compromising their daily limit,” said another. A third person tweeted, “In our opinion, this is a sales funnel to verify and bring more users to Blue, not to deal with spam.”

In recent months, Twitter has introduced other changes aimed at tackling some abuses of the platform. But many users see this as an attempt to get more subscriptions. In early July, owner Elon Musk unveiled a rate limit that would limit the number of tweets you can read per day. However, the limits are much stricter for unverified users than for Blue customers.

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I sent an email to Twitter’s press contact address asking when the new limits will go into effect and how many daily DMs unverified users can send. instead of normal Auto reply with nothing but a poop emoji, the company replied: “We will contact you soon.” If so, we’ll update the story with any additional details.