2023-07-22 18:18:55
If you use Twitter for a lot of conversations, you’re probably going to have to pay. The platform confirmed on Friday the establishment of a limit for sending private messages for its users who are not subscribed to Twitter Blue.
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://t.co/0CI4NTRw75
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 21, 2023
On July 13, the platform announced the implementation of “parameters that would reduce the number of unwanted messages in private messages”. With this setting, “Messages from users you follow will go to your main inbox, and messages from verified users (those who pay for a Twitter Blue subscription) that you don’t follow will go to your message request inbox.”
This measure has allowed a reduction of “70%” of unwanted messages in one week, ensures the social network. In recent months, several users of the social network have also confided that they have received a large number of fraudulent messages in their personal mailboxes.
On Friday, Twitter completed that announcement with a further clarification: “Uncertified accounts will have daily limits on the number of direct messages they can send. The site, however, does not specify the number of messages to which users are limited daily, nor the maximum number of recipients with whom they can exchange. After a test on an account not subscribed to Twitter Blue, Le Parisien was able to note a blocking after 100 messages, on a single conversation. It was no longer possible, either, to send messages in other conversations.
New call to subscribe
To circumvent this limit, Twitter encourages its users to subscribe to Twitter Blue, a subscription to the platform launched at the end of 2022, worth more than 100 euros annually, or 9.80 euros monthly.
If this measure aims to limit spam, it also seems to be part of a myriad of attempts by Elon Musk’s platform to monetize its services. Before that, the billionaire had announced in early July his intention to restrict – officially on a provisional basis – the reading of tweets to 10,000 per day for paid accounts, 1,000 for others and even 500 for new accounts.
A few days later, Elon Musk also assured that the TweetDeck application, very popular with information professionals, would be reserved for paid accounts from August.
If Elon Musk wants to encourage users to subscribe, it’s because the platform’s finances are at their worst. “We are still in a negative cash flow situation, due to a fall of around 50% in advertising revenues and the heavy debt load,” confided the boss of Twitter last week. “We have to get to positive cash flow before we have the luxury of doing anything else,” he added.
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