As you possibly can see on this instance, creators with subscriptions turned on can now activate a toggle to allow subscribers to ship them direct messages within the app, no matter any of their different DM settings.

X up to date the default setting for DMs again in July, with the intention to fight message spam, which signifies that solely your followers or verified customers can ship you DMs. Non-contacts and non-paying customers can’t ship random customers messages within the app, although you possibly can nonetheless make your DMs open to all, for those who select. They’re simply not open by default, which might be why you’re seeing fewer messages within the app.

This new factor is extra particularly aligned with facilitating engagement together with your paying viewers, by giving them extra alternative to get in contact, and providing you with extra methods to deepen these connections.

Along with this, X can also be growing a brand new tag for subscribers’ DMs in your inbox, as a way to decide them out and prioritize them in-stream.

It’s one other manner for X to encourage extra creator funding, along with its advert income share program, which it hopes will get extra creators posting authentic content material to X completely, maintaining that engagement inside its evolving creator ecosystem.

It stays to be seen if X will be capable to compete with different platforms on this entrance, however it’s one other cog in Elon Musk’s broader plan to make X the important thing app for all sorts of interactions and transactions.