Tell HN: Twitter changed default settings to only receive DM from verified users

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3 years ago

Last night I learned that Twitter has changed its default Direct Message settings so that by default, you can only receive DMs from people that don't follow you ONLY if they are verified.

This is obviously really bad for people who use Twitter for business, journalism, etc. and want to be contacted by anyone. Also, a really shady move since apparently it hasn't been publicly announced.

More importantly, switching the setting back to "allow all users" seems not to work that well for me, since I changed the settings last night and it's back to "only from verified accounts" as of this morning, I hope this is an unintentional bug, however I've seen reports of that happening to other users as well.

Some sources:

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1680156192876756992

https://twitter.com/snafuqd/status/1680037620041039873

https://twitter.com/halomancer1/status/1680039297637040129

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