2023-06-13 19:00:00
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9:56 p.m., June 13, 2023
The social network Twitter intends to restrict the sending of private messages for accounts that have not subscribed to the paid Twitter Blue offer which, for the time being, is unable to find its audience. Elon Musk justifies this choice by a desire to fight once morest the proliferation of robots bombarding Internet users with private messages.
Has Elon Musk found a new strategy to attract Internet users to Twitter Blue? Launched last November, Twitter’s paid offer allowing, among other things, to send longer tweets and correct them, has not been able to convince for the time being. So much so that last May, the specialized media Mashable revealed that more than half of the first users who subscribed to Twitter Blue had then terminated. At the head of the platform, the whimsical billionaire Elon Musk has therefore had a new idea which might take shape in the next update of the application, expected within a few days.
As reported by Alessandro Paluzzi, social network specialist, an average user will then be unable to add an account that does not follow him back in a group discussion. He will also not be able to send private messages to this other user. And will instead receive an error message reminding that only verified users are exempt from this restriction. The number of private messages sent to people who follow us will be limited in proportions for the time being unknown.
Operation similar to that of LinkedIn
If he has not officially confirmed the arrival of this new rule of the game, Elon Musk, however, wanted to justify it. According to him, this update is necessary to fight once morest the countless invitations by private message, sent by robots. A phenomenon that has tended to increase in recent weeks. “The only ‘social networks’ that will survive will be those that require verification,” he wrote on Twitter.
By introducing this new feature, Twitter would then join LinkedIn which operates on a similar scheme. On the social network dedicated to professionals, a user must imperatively subscribe to the premium offer in order to get in touch with a person who does not follow him in return.
Since its takeover by Elon Musk at the end of last year, Twitter has been the subject of much criticism. Affected by numerous bugs at the start of the year, the platform is also singled out for its unreadable operation and the policy pursued by its owner. With, first of all, the removal of blue badges for users who are not subscribed to Twitter Blue. Elon Musk himself had recognized last April “many errors” in the management of the social network which he had compared to “roller coasters”.
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