We’ll soon be implementing some changes in our effort to reduce spam in Direct Messages. Unverified accounts will have daily limits on the number of DMs they can send. Subscribe today to send more messages
https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1682501248334061572
I like how social media companies are starting to embrace the Fediverse.
Ah yes, because spammers clearly can’t afford 8 bucks a month
What’s the limit? As long as it’s high I can see this as decent anti spam idea.
Probably whatever number Elon arbitrarily decides he thinks maximizes the conversion rate to premium.
It’d make for a good anti-spam measure if there was a limit to the number of DMs users could send to other people who don’t follow them back. It’d mean people can still use Twitter DMs like a normal messaging service (which isn’t something I care for, but I know some people use it like that).
As it is, it just feels similar to the whole “rate limiting the number of tweets people can view per day” thing, where they’re taking the most obvious route to reducing bandwidth usage by restricting users.
This is an awesome thing, it encourages people up get off their site
Twitter could implement a feature where you could only read like 25 tweets a week and Twitter would still somehow survive
