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Alienating users by the day, Twitter is yet again intending to make the platform less friendly to its users with a new policy that would limit the amount of messages un verified users can send in a day. The company claims the move is motivated by the sharp tick in spam messages on the social platform. Just this month, Twitter added new Settings option for Messages which directed DMs from accounts people follow to their primary inbox and DMs from verified users they don't follow to their message request inbox. The platform says it noted a 70% reduction in spam messages after this new addition to Settings. Read: Elon Musk says Twitter's blue bird to be replaced by an X The recent move seems more to be motivated to push unverified users towards paying for its premium Blue subscription rather than reducing spam messages. The announcement made on the website, explicitly told readers to "subscribe today to send more messages". Twitter has already put a limit on ...

Twitter Inc on Thursday allowed users who subscribe to its Blue verification feature an early access to its encrypted messaging service. The social media platform, owned and run by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, said the service was now available to verified users who have the latest version of the app installed. A Twitter Blue subscription, which has now become the basis for verification on the platform, starts at $8 per month, or $84 a year. "As Elon Musk said, when it comes to Direct Messages, the standard should be, if someone puts a gun to our heads, we still can't access your messages," the company said on a blog post. "We're not quite there yet, but we're working on it." Source: https://thefoxposts.com/twitter-s-verified-users-get-early-access-to-encrypted-messaging-TheFOXposts-22120.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Technology Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

Twitter is rolling out its encrypted direct messages, promised to users for quite some time, but with some limitations for users . The feature is currently only available to verified users and Twitter Blue subscribers, who can use the privacy encryption for DMs between two verified users. According to the company, the encryption won't support group messages, or any kind of media, except links. Moreover, users won't be able to report encrypted messages but would have to report the account as a whole. The level of privacy encryption offered by Twitter makes it less secure in comparison to other apps that have the same feature. The company noted that “currently, we do not offer protections against man-in-the-middle attacks” and suggested that it can access encrypted DMs without the participants knowing. Read: OpenAI CEO to testify in US Senate next week amid questions about Technology “If someone–for example, a malicious insider, or Twitter itself a...

Twitter on Thursday began removing legacy blue checkmarks from user profiles, with famous people including pop icon Beyonce and Pope Francis losing their verified statuses. Some personalities such as basketball star LeBron James and author Stephen King still had their checkmarks. "The Shining" author King, who has previously called Musk a terrible fit for Twitter, tweeted: "My Twitter account says I've subscribed to Twitter Blue. I haven't. My Twitter account says I've given a phone number. I haven't." Musk tweeted back to him: "You're welcome namaste," with a hands folded emoji. The Verge reported that James, who has previously said he would not pay for verification, had not paid to keep the check mark. Musk tweeted separately: "I'm paying for a few personally." and later tweeted "Just Shatner, LeBron and King," referring to Star Trek actor William Shatner, who had last month complained about being forced...