Since the arrival of Elon Musk on Twitter, the social network has done nothing more than turn its business model to try, however, to get the majority of users to pay every month to be able to use this social network. Thus, in recent months we have been able to see how users who use this social network without paying have more and more limitations. And, today, we bring a new one related, this time, with direct messages.
Twitter Blue is the subscription model of this social network. In exchange for a payment of 9.68 euros per month, users will be able to get a series of extra features on the social network. For example, they may write tweets of up to 10,000 charactershave priority in searches and conversations, use NFT as main image, upload full-length videos, reader mode, customizable app icon, edit tweets up to 1 hour after posting, pin them to your profile page and much more.
Now Twitter users find themselves with yet another reason to pay for a Blue subscription. And this is none other than, if you don’t pay, you’ll only be able to send a few direct messages a day.
The new MD limit
Although this new limitation is still in development, the first signs that it is real have already begun to be seen. And it is that, very soon, users not subscribed to Twitter Blue will see limited the number of direct messages, MD, that they can send to people who do not follow them.
This limit makes a lot of sense to try to make all those accounts that work as professional profiles pay, and offer, for example, support and help to their users through this social network. If the recipient does not follow them, they will not be able to contact them if they are not subscribed to Twitter Blue. If you do belong to this select group of paid users, then you can send as many direct messages as you want to people who don’t follow you. Respecting, always, the privacy settings.
On the contrary, if both people follow each other, they will not be limited by this restriction, and can share as many DMs as they want.
Building a Twitter 2.0
There is still a lot to be done on Twitter, and it would not be unusual to find ourselves with many more limitations in order to try to get more and more users to pay for the Blue subscription. And all this is part of a concept that has been referred to several times as «Twitter 2.0«.
After the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, and after turning the entire company upside down, it is now the job of its new CEO, Linda Yaccarinoface the company and continue working not only to improve the social network and make it economically profitable, but also to clean up its image and gain the trust of both people who use it for personal purposes and those who use it with professional purposes.
Therefore, there is still a lot of work ahead.
