Twitter admits launching verified spammer-fighting tweak today to compete with Instagram Threads. Twitter will move messages from Verified users you don’t follow to your “Message Request” inbox “as soon as” July 14 to reduce DM spam. Your primary inbox will only receive messages from followers. These modifications now apply to everyone who has their inboxes available to anyone.
People could only send you Twitter DMs if you had opted into Twitter’s Settings to receive messages from anyone or if the senders were Verified (paying Twitter subscribers) and you had specifically opted into receiving Direct Messages from Verified users.
If you had already Direct Messaged them, they could too.
Starting as soon as July 14th, we’re adding a new messages setting that should help reduce the number of spam messages in DMs. With the new setting enabled, messages from users who you follow will arrive in your primary inbox, and messages from verified users who you don’t follow…
— Support (@Support) July 13, 2023
Twitter admits to Verified Spammer with its new verification system, where users may pay for the blue badge that elevates their status, failed again when Verified users’ messages were moved back to the Message Request inbox (unless you follow them). Before pay-to-play, verification meant a person was a politician, celebrity, athlete, journalist, or other notable person. Twitter devalued verification by selling it to anyone with a credit card.
Verified users spamming their primary inbox after they opened it to receive DMs from the blue-badged crowd has reportedly gotten to people. It implies Twitter has a Verified user spam problem.
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After these modifications, Twitter says users can manually switch back to receiving Verified DMs in their primary inbox.
Journalists lost their verification badges under Musk and now have their DMs dropped into the Message Requests folder, where they may go unnoticed.
Twitter admits to Verified Spammer which some users in response noted that the update essentially moves spam from Verified users to a separate bucket.
After buying Twitter for $44 billion last year, Elon Musk pledged to reduce spam and bots. The Wall St. Journal stated phony and spam accounts on the network persist. The research also claimed that bot activity has remained the same despite Musk’s takeover.
Musk said Twitter removed 90% of scams and spam last month.
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