Twitter has introduced to limit direct messages (DMs) for unverified accounts with a view to scale back spam on the platform.
The corporate stated it should quickly be implementing some adjustments “in our effort to cut back spam in Direct Messages”.
“Unverified accounts may have each day limits on the variety of DMs they will ship,” the corporate stated.
To ship limitless DMs, a Twitter person will now must pay for a Twitter Blue subscription.
Twitter, nonetheless, didn’t specify what the each day DM restrict could be. The adjustments could be carried out starting Friday.
Final week, the micro-blogging platform added a brand new messages setting to assist scale back the variety of spam messages in DMs.
With the brand new setting enabled, messages from customers who you observe will arrive in your major inbox, and messages from verified customers who you don’t observe shall be despatched to your message request inbox.
“Customers who beforehand had their permissions set to permit message requests from everybody shall be migrated to this new setting, however can change again at any time,” stated the corporate.
Earlier, Musk had put “non permanent” charge limits on studying tweets.
He had stated 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 group is straightforward and clear — preserve free expression and make Twitter a protected area for everybody,” Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted.
“We’ll proceed to take away probably the most critical violations of our guidelines, akin to unlawful content material, and droop dangerous actors from our platform,” Twitter stated.
— IANS