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Twitter will \u201csoon\u201d implement daily limits on the number of direct messages unverified accounts will be able to send in \u201can effort to reduce spam,\u201d the company announced on Friday via its Twitter Support account<\/a>. In other words, to send unlimited DMs, you\u2019ll need to pay for a Twitter Blue subscription.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In its tweet, Twitter didn\u2019t specify what the daily DM limit may be. On a support page<\/a>, the company said the changes would be implemented beginning Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But a month later, he said the then in-progress Twitter acquisition was \u201ctemporarily on hold\u201d<\/a> while he waited for details to support Twitter\u2019s calculation that bots \/ spam only accounted for less than five percent of its monthly active users; days later, he asserted that the deal \u201ccannot move forward\u201d<\/a> until Twitter proved the estimate. The acquisition eventually went through<\/a> later in the year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Last week, Twitter introduced a DM setting<\/a> that the company said was also intended to help reduce spam \u2014 but like this news, it doubles as another way to push Twitter Blue. If you have your DMs open, Twitter\u2019s new setting moves DMs from verified users that you don\u2019t follow into the secondary \u201cmessage request\u201d inbox<\/a> instead of your main inbox. But that change, which Twitter switched everyone with an open DM inbox over to, also turns off the ability for people who don\u2019t pay for Twitter Blue to message you at all<\/a>. You can switch back to allowing message requests from everyone, but you have to know where to look.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A few weeks ago, Musk also instituted \u201ctemporary\u201d rate limits on reading tweets, and under those limits, Twitter Blue subscribers could read far more tweets than unverified users<\/a>. It\u2019s unclear if those rate limits are still in place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n