Elon Musk slammed over ‘stupid change’ to Twitter direct messages as accounts are hit with new daily limit on DMs
ELON Musk and Twitter are facing fresh criticism over limiting the number of direct messages that unverified accounts can send.
The new daily limit for DMs caused a stir on Friday as the company rolled out the change in an effort to combat bots and reduce spam.
Twitter Support wrote: "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."
No timeline or number for the new limit was given.
A link was published in the Tweet for users to sign up for Twitter Blue, the monthly subscription service that adds a blue checkmark to users' accounts and early access to select new features.
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The announcement caused a divide between users.
"Twitter limiting the amount of dms you send its really over for me," wrote one person.
"1) this change is stupid 2) somehow muskrat is just gonna screw everyone, including Twitter blue users 3)they’re gonna say this is to prevent bots. it’s not gonna. it’s just gonna mean more bots are gonna be made to dm more people..." wrote another user, referring to Musk.
A third person wrote: "Changes like this is why other apps will start to compete, don’t limit your users on the basic stuff, this is not what Twitter is about.
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"The point of paying for Twitter blue is so we have additional features not to take away a common, free feature and put a paywall behind it."
However, other social media users were in favor of the change.
"Finally, you can stop shilling your mixtapes. Whoever you are," joked one person.
"Thank god," wrote another person.
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This comes after Musk revealed that the platform will be adding another new feature following the launch of Mark Zuckerberg's rival app Threads.
In February, the Twitter app was testing a feature called Notes which drastically increases the user's character limit.
The feature was renamed to Articles on Tuesday.
"This will allow users to post very long, complex articles with mixed media," Musk tweeted.
"You could publish a book if you want."
Currently, Twitter Blue subscribers have the ability to write with 10,000 characters.
