As you may 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 implies 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 may nonetheless make your DMs open to all, should you select. They’re simply not open by default, which may very well be why you’re seeing fewer messages within the app.

This new component is extra particularly aligned with facilitating engagement along 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 creating a brand new tag for subscribers’ DMs in your inbox, so that you could choose them out and prioritize them in-stream.

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

It stays to be seen if X will have the ability to compete with different platforms on this entrance, nevertheless 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.