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Ever since Threads launched back in July, users have been clamoring for the company to add certain features to the new X (formerly known as Twitter) competitor. While the company has responded and added a lot of requested features, there is one that has been mysteriously missing. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there. By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use and have reviewed the Privacy Notice. If you’ve ever used a social media…

 Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, will remove a protective feature that lets users block other accounts, owner Elon Musk said on Friday in another controversial move for the company he bought last year.The block function on X allows a user to restrict specific accounts from contacting them, seeing their posts or following them."Block is going to be deleted as a 'feature', except for DMs," Musk said in a post on the platform, referring to direct messages. Block is going to be deleted as a “feature”,…

As Twitter transitions to X, it’s becoming less and less usable for unverified users. Shortly after the company imposed a limit on the number of tweets they can see in a day, it’s putting a limit on their messages as well. The social network recently announced that “unverified accounts will have daily limits on the number of DMs they can send.” It didn’t specify how many messages users without a Twitter Blue subscription can send in a day, though. According to Twitter, this move will help reduce DM spam, which has been…

Twitter has again made its platform a little less usable for people who choose not to pay for a Blue subscription. The company has announced that it will soon implement a new rule that puts a limit on the number of DMs unverified accounts can send per day. In a tweet, Twitter said the change is part of its efforts to reduce spam in direct messages, which has seen a sharp uptick recently.  On July 14th, the website added a new message setting that sends DMs from accounts people follow to their primary inbox and DMs from…

Microblogging platform Twitter on Saturday announced that it has restricted direct messages (DMs) for unverified accounts in a bid to reduce spam on the platform.The company also said it will soon implement more changes in its effort to reduce spam in Direct Messages.“Unverified accounts will have daily limits on the number of DMs they can send,” the company said in a tweet.— TwitterSupport (@TwitterSupport) Further, to send unlimited DMs, a Twitter user will now have to subscribe to Twitter Blue.Twitter, however, did not…

Recently, Twitter announced a new setting that changed the default DM (direct message) option for all accounts. The default option allowed users to receive messages from users they follow and verified accounts they do not follow while restricting any other unverified account from sending messages. Twitter explained the move was taken to reduce spam on the platform. The move received some flak from users who preferred having an open DM to receive message requests from all users. But now, the microblogging platform has…

Threads — the popular microblogging platform launched by Facebook parent Meta earlier this month — will implement rate limits following an increase in spam attacks on the platform. Rate limits are an artificial ceiling on the number of times a user can interact with a platform within a certain period, and rival Twitter announced similar limits for the same purpose earlier this month. Meanwhile, the early excitement around the Threads app appears to have waned, as per a report that states that the number of daily active…

Image Source : FILE Meta's Threads app likely to introduce Direct Messages soon Meta recently launched Threads on Instagram, a platform rival to Twitter. Surprisingly, Threads garnered a massive 100 million subscribers in its first five days of release. Now, reports are suggesting that Meta plans to add another Twitter feature to Threads. The feature in question is…

In a shocking twist, Twitter has made a problematic decision in an attempt to turn people toward getting a Twitter Blue subscription. There’s a new setting for Twitter DMs that could opt everyone in. However, this setting has the potential for some major harassment. Elon Musk is still trying to make Twitter profitable. However, it seems that with every step forward the company makes… let’s not kid ourselves, the company’s been taking steps back since Elon took the helm. Since ad revenue is down, Twitter is focusing a…

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri recently said that Threads would not be getting direct messaging anytime soon. Well, he may have spoken too soon on that one. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there. By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use and have reviewed the Privacy Notice. In a leaked internal document from Meta that was acquired by Business Insider, the company appears to be promising direct messaging as a “coming soon”…