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Twitter will not let you receive DMs from non-Blue accounts by default

A new option has been added for direct messages on Twitter that allows users to receive DMs only from verified users or users they follow.

July 17, 2023 / 14:21 IST
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Twitter will not let you receive DMs from non-Blue accounts by default
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Twitter has updated their user's Direct Message (DM) settings to only show you messages from users you follow and verified users. This is turned on by default for all accounts, and they will have to go into setting and toggle their DM status to be open for everyone to receive messages.

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The social media platform made the announcement through a tweet from their official account last week. WATCH: Elon Musk’s Story | The man behind Tesla, SpaceX & now Twitter

Last month, Elon Musk had said that it was getting, "increasingly difficult to distinguish between AI bots. Soon, it will be impossible". He added that the only platforms that will effectively combat the threat of spam bots would be those, "those that require verification. The payment system is a means of verification that increases bot cost by ~10,000X".

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first published: Jul 17, 2023 02:21 pm

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