Twitter set to alter DM settings to cut back spam

Twitter Inc has introduced one other change on its platform and this time it’s associated to direct messages (DM). The firm has introduced that it’s going to quickly be implementing some modifications in our effort to cut back spam in Direct Messages. “Unverified accounts will have daily limits on the number of DMs they can send,” the corporate stated”.

Earlier, the Elon Musk-led firm restricted the variety of tweets that customers can view every day to stop unauthorized scraping of doubtless useful knowledge from the social media platform.

Musk described the brand new restrictions as a short lived measure that was taken as a result of “we had been getting knowledge pillaged a lot that it was degrading service for regular customers!”

As per the corporate’s announcement, unverified accounts will quickly be restricted to studying 800 posts and verified accounts will have the ability to scroll by means of as much as 10,000 tweets.

In May this yr, Musk revealed particulars about new options together with including calls and encrypted messaging coming to the platform.

Twitter Inc has made a slew of modifications since Musk bought the social media large for $44 billion in October 2022.

The firm has been in turmoil together with mass layoffs and voluntary departures because the billionaire Tesla proprietor purchased the San Francisco firm and took it non-public. The firm’s head of belief and security left shortly after the takeover, and turnover within the high ranks has continued. The firm has been hit by two lawsuits this month. Former Twitter senior engineer Chris Woodfield has sued the corporate that it owes at the least $500 million in severance pay to ex-workers. Twitter has additionally been accused in a number of separate lawsuits of disproportionately shedding girls and staff with disabilities, failing to present advance discover of layoffs, and never paying promised bonuses to its remaining staff. The firm has denied these claims.

Twitter received a brand new competitor this month when Facebook proprietor Meta launched a text-focused app, Threads, and gained tens of thousands and thousands of sign-ups in a couple of days. Twitter responded by threatening authorized motion.

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Updated: 22 Jul 2023, 10:43 AM IST