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Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ by mschuster91 on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:11AM (#36846636)
Twitter is getting increasingly hard to use without paying for it. Tweet read limits, DM limits, and now the inbox filter for your DMs got silently auto-changed to "only verified accounts can DM you".

And no matter how good your reply to someone is quality-wise - a bunch of bluecheck dumbasses will be prioritized. Like every viral tweet has an absurd amount of blue-checked far-right, braindead, scammer and spammer replies below. Musk ruined Twitter by making it "pay to play".

If I were to run Twitter, I'd have offered actual verification against a reasonable price to cover the cost of validation, say 100$, years ago. On top of that, some paid features (e.g. long text publishing, uploads > 2 minutes) for those who don't pass the "notability" threshold.

Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ by tome on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:37AM (#36847005)
> Twitter is getting increasingly hard to use without paying for it

nitter.net works wonderfully!

> DM limits

I've been wanted a way to forbid people to DM me for a long time. Thanks Elon!

Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ by eropple on Monday July 24, 2023 @09:08AM (#36847375)
> I've been wanted a way to forbid people to DM me for a long time. Thanks Elon!

Then you should have been happy in like, 2018? when they added that.

You could restrict DMs to people you followed for a long time. The only thing Musk did was add, and then force on for users, "only followers and people who have paid me eight bucks a month can DM you".

"Thanks Elon", indeed.

Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ by tome on Monday July 24, 2023 @12:09PM (#36850222)
Ah, I only recalled that there wasn't a way to prevent DMs from everyone, not even people I follow, and indeed Elon's innovation doesn't improve that. Oh well.
Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ by numpad0 on Monday July 24, 2023 @12:27PM (#36850520)
The only thing forced was "only those submit to us AND spammers can DM you". Spam DMs still fills my inbox.
Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ by cbm-vic-20 on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:54AM (#36847218)
I don't have a Twitter account, but I would occasionally read threads, and obviously a lot of content linked to various Twitter posts. After all of these changes to limits and generally making it harder to read Twitter content without being logged in, I simply don't bother clicking on their links anymore.

Nothing of value was lost. I'm only one person in a large Internet, and I'm sure they won't miss the $0.03 of advertising revenue I brought them.