First off, as we reported final week, Twitter’s testing out new restrictions on DM sending, with Twitter Blue customers quickly set to be the one ones that’ll be allowed to ship DM requests to customers who don’t observe them within the app.

That’ll considerably limit folks’s capability to have interaction in DM spam – although it’ll additionally affect companies utilizing Twitter for customer support, and varied others who use Twitter DMs to succeed in out to potential contacts or collaborators.

In fact, you’ll be capable to get round this, by paying $8 per 30 days, which Twitter maintains is a type of person verification, sufficient to weed out spammers not less than. And if extra folks get verified, extra folks can have interaction by way of DM, the affect is diminished, and so on.

Elon Musk says that this new ingredient will seemingly be rolled out someday this week.

Along with this, Twitter’s additionally trying to implement limits on the quantity of DMs that non-subscribers can ship per day.

As you may see on this instance, shared by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, Twitter will quickly cease customers from sending any DMs as soon as they attain a sure restrict, with the present every day restrict, Paluzzi says, pegged at 500.

Which is quite a bit. Should you’re sending 500 DMs per day, you in all probability ought to be paying – however Paluzzi additionally notes that this quantity could possibly be a lot smaller as soon as this restriction is finally rolled out.

The mixed measures will considerably affect DM spammers – although they too will even be capable to pay the $8 per 30 days, and carry on sending. I assume, the chance right here is that they get reported and lose their verification in consequence – or Twitter makes cash from such both method, so it turns into much less of an issue for Elon and Co.

However it ought to work to scale back DM spam, which could possibly be one other step in the direction of each enhancing the messaging expertise within the app, whereas additionally prompting extra folks to enroll to Twitter Blue, a win-win for Twitter itself.

As famous, which will produce other, unintended impacts, relying on how you employ DMs. However Twitter’s response can be to push customers in the direction of Twitter Blue, which Elon Musk maintains is the perfect resolution for addressing Twitter’s spam and bot points.

Which it in all probability is not, but when extra folks do join, it has the potential to deal with a number of of Twitter’s challenges in a single measure.

Twitter wants extra income, with Twitter’s general advert income down 40% year-over-year, whereas it additionally needs to diversify its earnings streams, so it doesn’t need to implement moderation and censorship on the behest of advert companions (advert income nonetheless makes up round 90% of Twitter’s earnings). After which there’s the verification ingredient. Correct verification would contain affirmation of id by way of Authorities-issued ID, however that additionally requires handbook checking, and thus, further labor time, so Twitter’s utilizing what it calls ‘fee verification’ as a proxy for ID affirmation – i.e. if a person has a cellphone quantity, and a linked checking account, it should be an actual individual, whereas bot armies can be more durable to assemble in the event that they need to pay for every account.

In principle, all of this is sensible. In actuality, nevertheless, not sufficient individuals are paying for Twitter Blue to make this an efficient possibility.

Proper now, round 0.28% of Twitter customers have signed onto this system, which is nowhere close to sufficient to make this a viable resolution on any of those fronts. However Twitter’s sticking with it – although a more practical resolution would seemingly be free verification, by way of government-issued ID, versus having to pay for such.

LinkedIn’s trying to implement this by way of a third-party supplier, which can scale back handbook checking and affirmation on its finish. That’ll seemingly see much more take-up, although it’s nonetheless a heap of handbook work, and Twitter, proper now, has much less capability for such than ever, with round 80% fewer workers than this time final 12 months.

So it’ll want to stay with Twitter Blue as its verification stream, for now not less than, which can see it proceed to implement new measures like this to make the app much less useful for non-subscribers, within the hopes that extra of them will simply pay and be carried out with it.

I doubt that’s going to occur, however not less than Twitter will know, a technique or one other, whether or not this can be a workable resolution in the long run.

In different Twitter DM information, it’s additionally rising its group chat restrict from 50 to 100 folks.

The broader social media pattern in the direction of messaging interactions, versus public posting in feeds, has prompted each app to rethink its messaging components, and Twitter can be hoping {that a} greater group DM restrict will present extra capability for dialogue – whereas Elon additionally just lately agreed with a person suggestion that Twitter Circles ought to be culled in favor of higher DM instruments.

Looks like that could possibly be the subsequent factor on the Twitter chopping block.