Twitter restricts DMs for unverified accounts to reduce spam

The company also said it will soon implement more changes in its effort to reduce spam in Direct Messages.

“Unverified accounts will have daily limits on the number of DMs they can send,” the company said in a tweet.

Further, to send unlimited DMs, a Twitter user will now have to subscribe to Twitter Blue.

Twitter, however, did not specify what the daily DM limit will be.

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Last week, the microblogging platform unveiled new message settings to help reduce the number of spam messages.

Once enabled, messages from followers arrive in primary inbox, while texts from verified users who users don’t follow will be sent to message request inbox.

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“Users who previously had their permissions set to allow message requests from everyone will be migrated to this new setting, but can switch back at any time,” said the company.

This means users who are not subscribed to the $8/month Twitter Blue plan, will not be able to send DMs to users who don’t follow them.

Sharing an update on this, Twitter on Saturday said that there has been a 70% drop in spam DMs.

“We’re seeing a 70% reduction in spam in Direct Messages compared to last week,” the microblogging platform said.

Earlier this month, owner Elon Musk announced that Twitter was limiting verified accounts to reading 10,000 tweets a day, in a bid “to address extreme levels of data scraping” and “system manipulation” by third-party platforms.

Non-verified users are limited to reading 1,000 tweets per day, while new unverified accounts are limited to 500 tweets.

Twitter has also said TweetDeck, a popular program that allows users to monitor several accounts at once, will only be available to verified users from next month.

These updates are in line with owner Elon Musk’s push to boost Twitter Blue subscriptions and impose restrictions on users not willing to shell out $8 every month for the plan.