Twitter will soon limit how many DMs unverified accounts can send

Dylan Horetski

Twitter has simply revealed that they’re going to introduce limits to how many DMs unverified accounts can send every day as a strategy to cut back spam in direct messages.

Since shopping for the platform in October 2022, Elon Musk has carried out a wide range of adjustments to Twitter that many haven’t precisely been a fan of.

On July 1, 2023, customers started experiencing a “rate limit exceeded” message on the platform that Musk rapidly defined was carried out to fight knowledge scraping.

Unverified customers have been restricted on the platform probably the most, and now Twitter has revealed plans to implement a Daily Limit on DMs for unverified customers as properly.

Twitter to implement Daily Limit for DMs on unverified accounts

Announced through the Twitter Support account on July 21, 2023, the platform defined that the adjustments will be in an effort to “reduce spam in Direct Messages.” The change will solely have an effect on unverified accounts.

“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,” they mentioned.

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We’ll soon be implementing some adjustments in our effort to cut back spam in Direct Messages. Unverified accounts will have day by day limits on the variety of DMs they can send. Subscribe at present to send extra messages: https://t.co/0CI4NTRw75

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 21, 2023

With all of the adjustments happening with Twitter lately, many have expressed curiosity in wanting to depart the platform totally. Meta launched Threads on July 5, 2023, to do exactly that, and it skyrocketed to 100 million customers in lower than per week’s time.

It hasn’t maintained momentum, nonetheless, shedding over 50% of its day by day energetic customers in line with a report from Similarweb.

Whether or not customers will start to depart Twitter en masse is unknown, however we’ll be sure you replace you as time goes on. In the meantime, nonetheless, you can head over to our tech section for extra information and different viral tales.