Twitter to restrict DMs for unverified accounts to reduce spam

Twitter has introduced to restrict direct messages (DMs) for unverified accounts so as to reduce spam on the platform.

The firm mentioned it would quickly be implementing some modifications “in our effort to reduce spam in Direct Messages”.

“Unverified accounts may have day by day limits on the variety of DMs they will ship,” the corporate mentioned.

To ship limitless DMs, a Twitter consumer will now want to pay for a Twitter Blue subscription.

Twitter, nevertheless, did not specify what the day by day DM restrict is likely to be. The modifications can be carried out starting Friday.

Last week, the micro-blogging platform added a brand new messages setting to assist reduce the variety of spam messages in DMs.

With the brand new setting enabled, messages from customers who you comply with will arrive in your major inbox, and messages from verified customers who you do not comply with shall be despatched to your message request inbox.

“Users who beforehand had their permissions set to enable message requests from everybody shall be migrated to this new setting, however can swap again at any time,” mentioned the corporate.

Earlier, Musk had put “momentary” price limits on studying tweets.

He had mentioned 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 that doesn’t violate the platform’s guidelines.

“Our dedication to our neighborhood is straightforward and clear — preserve free expression and make Twitter a secure house for everybody,” Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted.

“We will proceed to take away essentially the most critical violations of our guidelines, comparable to unlawful content material, and droop unhealthy actors from our platform,” Twittermentioned.

(With inputs from IANS)