• someguy3@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    What’s the limit? As long as it’s high I can see this as decent anti spam idea.

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      1 year ago

      It’d make for a good anti-spam measure if there was a limit to the number of DMs users could send to other people who don’t follow them back. It’d mean people can still use Twitter DMs like a normal messaging service (which isn’t something I care for, but I know some people use it like that).

      As it is, it just feels similar to the whole “rate limiting the number of tweets people can view per day” thing, where they’re taking the most obvious route to reducing bandwidth usage by restricting users.

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        1 year ago

        I haven’t yet once reached that limit though. Probably doesn’t affect the vast majority of normal users and I’d imagine same applies to this DM limit aswell.

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        1 year ago

        In that case, it’ll definitely be 69 for new accounts and 420 for established accounts. He’s predictable.

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      1 year ago

      Agreed. Most private messages I get are from fake accounts that probably spam the same message to hundreds of other users aswell.