Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Twitter is altering what number of Direct Messages non-paying prospects can ship from limitless to 500 per day.
- The change comes amidst limits to non-paying prospects’ means to DM different customers on the platform and a purported rebranding of Twitter to X.
Twitter is present process plenty of modifications not too long ago. In the course of its purported rebranding to X (sure, you learn that proper), Twitter can be exploring methods to get extra folks to subscribe to Twitter Blue and pay to get “verified.” Just lately, the platform had begun rate-limiting customers on its platform, citing a spam bot drawback however permitting a far higher restrict for Blue subscribers. Now, citing the identical, Twitter has launched limits to what number of Direct Messages (DMs) you’ll be able to ship in a day as a non-subscriber.
The deal with didn’t disclose the restrict. Nonetheless, digging deeper into support docs, we discovered that there’s an account restrict of 500 Direct Messages despatched per day. As soon as a person reaches this restrict, they can’t ship any extra DMs.
Twitter had additionally flipped a settings swap for a lot of customers, which had left folks annoyed. The corporate had modified DM settings from permitting messaging requests from everybody to permitting message requests solely from Verified customers (aka Twitter Blue subscribers).
Twitter had switched customers to the “Verified solely” with out informing them, resulting in confusion
Most customers weren’t knowledgeable about this transformation, in order that they remained below the impression that anybody on the platform may nonetheless message them if wanted. Many customers, like us tech journalists, depend on this setting to obtain ideas and leads.
Twitter says that this transformation decreased spam messages by 70%. The platform’s wording implies the change was discretionary, however in my private account, the platform made the swap with none heads-up. A number of different tech journalists that I comply with had the identical expertise.
The frequent thread in all of those modifications was that it prioritized Twitter Blue subscribers, which the platform continues to name “Verified customers,” regardless that no verification is concerned anymore. When you pay for the social media platform, you should have a comparatively unfettered expertise, whereas free customers can have a considerably restricted expertise.
When you use Twitter as your major communication app, you need to take into account switching to a sturdy IM app or subscribing to Twitter Blue. When you’re on the lookout for alternate options, notice that Threads doesn’t have a DMs function but.