Latest Technology News: Twitter set to change DM settings to reduce spam – Mint

Twitter Inc has announced another change to its platform and this time it’s related to direct messages (DMs). The company announced that it will soon be implementing some changes in its efforts to reduce spam in direct messages. “Unverified accounts will have daily limits on the number of DMs they can send,” the company said.

Previously, the Elon Musk-led company limited the number of tweets users could see each day to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the social media platform.

Musk described the new restrictions as a temporary measure that was taken because we were getting so much data looted that it was degrading service for normal users!”

According to the company’s announcement, unverified accounts will be temporarily limited to reading 800 posts and verified accounts will be able to scroll through up to 10,000 tweets.

In May this year, Musk revealed details about new features including the addition of calling and encrypted messaging coming to the platform.

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

The company has been in turmoil, including mass layoffs and voluntary departures since Tesla’s billionaire owner bought the San Francisco company and took it private. The company’s head of trust and security left shortly after the takeover, and turnover in senior ranks continued. The company has been hit with two lawsuits this month. Former Twitter chief engineer Chris Woodfield has sued the company for owing at least $500 million in severance pay to former employees. Twitter has also been accused in several separate lawsuits of disproportionately firing women and disabled workers, failing to give notice of termination and failing to pay promised bonuses to its remaining employees. The company has denied these allegations.

Twitter got a new competitor this month when Facebook owner Meta launched a text-focused app, Threads, and gained tens of millions of sign-ups within days. Twitter responded by threatening legal action.

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Updated: July 22, 2023, 10:43 a.m. IST



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