Elon Musk just turned your DMs into an ad for Twitter Blue. But you can change it back. Here’s how.
Enshitification continues… Fediverse popcorn intensifies. They’re putting this in play because Musk shredded Twitter’s moderation team and now he doesn’t have the staff to deal with reports on DMs, adding yet another chapter to the case study in business failure that Twitter will go down in history for. Upvote because every stupid thing they do there brings more users here.
Wow, they’re desperate.
Shitty company does something shitty. Sounds about right.
How is it shitty? It’ll cut down on spam, massively.
Because they’re locking a basic, essential functionality behind payment. Soon twitter will be for bootlickers, I mean, verified users only.
It worked for Something Awful.
The more they kick users out, the more biased towards Musk fans the feeds will be. I’d dare to say that a vast majority are American right-wingers. If they’re losing advertising revenue now, imagine when it starts looking exactly like Truth Social or Parler…
I’m not really upset over that. If the major platforms become more polarized, I expect that things will get more decentralized over time, which isn’t a bad thing. If conservatives are more able and willing to spend money on online communication, then let them. Everyone has a right to spend their money as they see most fit.
It’s all well and good, “let them do their thing”, but when my family gets together and it seems like some of them have been living in an entirely different reality than me, it’s not something I can just shrug off anymore. It’s tearing people apart. I don’t know what to do about the polarization, but I do know we can’t keep going like this without society snapping at some point.
Ah yeah, I totally agree! I was just thinking from the point of view of twitter as a business, that it might not “work” for them, money wise
I’d dare to say that a vast majority are American right-wingers.
By land mass and electoral representation… Maybe.
But by sheer amount of people, no, it’s not even close.
I think they were talking specifically about the people on Twitter.
Sometimes it doesnt save the setting even after you change it manually. I changed mine to allow DMs from everyone a couple days ago when this first dropped, and i just checked my settings a few hours ago and it had reverted to only Verified users. Real annoying
Elon will force so many people to pay for it now.
That… is a good thing, don’t have to get spams anymore.
Silently blocking DMs from people you wanted to be able to DM you is spam prevention?
I am more talking from my own perspective of how I use Twitter.
So you left your DMs open to everyone?
Then got hit with spam?
OK. Your choice.
all the spam that i see on twitter now is coming from blue checkmarks.
@dowath Verified Spam.
This HAS to be a reboot of the Producers. I mean, I know he’s stupid but he has to be able to see this.
Next up: Twitter sends you tens of DMs from hot girls in your area as soon as your Blue subscription runs out.
I… Jesus.
It just keeps getting worse and worse. How much longer until everyone has switched off the platform?
It seems that it doesn’t override the setting “Allow messages only from people you follow” if you had it configured like this, which IRC was the previous default. So I don’t really see the issue with this tbh.
