Twitter doubles participant limit for groups in your DMs

2023-06-13 14:25:42

O Twitter announced yesterday that it has doubled the participant limit for group chats on its Direct messages (Direct Messagesor DMs), going from 50 to 100 people.

In a tweet on its support account, the platform said it will expand this limit to an even larger number of participants over the coming weeks:

Is your group chat running out of space? Starting today, group Direct Messages can include up to 100 people. We’ll increase this limit further over the coming weeks.

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) June 13, 2023

Is your group chat running out of space? Starting today, group Direct Messages can include up to 100 people. We will further increase this limit in the coming weeks.

According to the social network, this change is already valid for all its users. It is not yet known, however, to how many people the company intends to expand this limit of participants in the future.

Limits for messages

Another limit that the social network seems to be testing is that of direct messages sent in a single day by users who do not subscribe to the Twitter Blue. Currently, that number is 500 messages per day for both regular and paying users — something that should change soon.

Yesterday, developer and reverse engineering specialist Alexander Paluzzi found a new alert in the Twitter app that should be displayed to users once this new limit is implemented.

#Twitter is working to limit the number of DMs you can send per day before signing up for
@TwitterBlue ????

As you can see above, the message in question asks the user to subscribe to Twitter Blue to stop sending more private messages beyond the limit. The network, however, makes no reference to the new daily message limit.

Furthermore, according to Elon Musk, the company also intends to launch, later this week, a new option that will limit the receipt of messages from people who don’t follow you to Twitter Blue subscribers only. This novelty, according to the billionaire, should drastically reduce the receipt of spam on the social network.