Twitter Announces Changes In Direct Messages Aimed At Reducing Spam

LOS ANGELES: Twitter Inc has announced another change that is being made on its social media platform and this time it has got to do with direct messages (DM).

The Elon Musk-led company has made an announcement that says it is planning to implement a few changes aimed at its efforts to reduce spam in Direct Messages.

The company said that unverified accounts will be imposed daily limits on the number of DMs they are allowed to send.

Earlier, the Elon Musk-owned company limited the number of tweets that can be viewed by users each day, in order to prevent extracting of potentially valuable data in an unauthorized manner from the social media platform.

Musk termed the new restrictions as a temporary measure that was bound to be taken because the platform was getting data pillaged to a limit that it has become a degrading service for normal users.

According to the new announcement by the company, unverified accounts will temporarily be allowed to read a total of 800 posts, while verified accounts will be enabled to scroll through up to 10,000 tweets.

Earlier, in May this year, Musk had made revelations on details about addition of new features including adding calls and encrypted messaging, which were soon coming to the platform.

Twitter Inc has undergone a series of changes from the time Musk purchased the social media giant at a price of $44 billion in October 2022.

The company has gone through lots of trouble including mass layoffs and voluntary exits, ever since the billionaire owner of Tesla bought the San Francisco company and took it private. The head of trust and safety at the company departed shortly after the takeover, and shuffle in the top ranks has continued.

Moreover, two lawsuits has hit the company during this month. One of them is by former Twitter senior engineer Chris Woodfield, who has sued the company that he is owed at least $500 million in severance pay, paid to ex-workers.

Twitter has also been alleged to have disproportionately laid off women and workers with disabilities, accusing in several separate lawsuits filed against it for failing to give advance notice of layoffs, and for non- payment of promised bonuses to its remaining employees. The company has rejected those claims.

To cap it all, Twitter faced new competition this month when Facebook owner Meta launched a text-focused app named Threads, which made a record by tens of millions of sign-ups in a few days.

Twitter has responded to the competition from Threads by threatening legal action.

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