If you retain your direct messages open on Twitter, you’ll have seen an unnatural quietness in your notifications recently. But it’s not associated to price limiting. Instead, Twitter started rolling out a settings tweak final week—and made it the brand new default.

Previously, Twitter’s direct message settings provided these three selections: Allow message requests from everybody (aka open DMs), Allow message requests solely from individuals you comply with (aka closed DMs), and Allow message requests solely from Verified customers (which additionally allowed messages from individuals you comply with). All of those messages went straight to your inbox.

But as announced last Thursday by the Twitter Support account, the verified customers choice has now modified to Allow message requests from Verified customers and other people you comply with solely. Though it might sound at first like a mere distinction in wording, selecting this technique of screening will filter your incoming messages into separate inboxes. Those from customers you comply with will go to a main inbox, whereas DMs from Twitter Blue subscribers will go to a message request inbox. And as a part of this replace, all customers who beforehand had their DMs open obtained migrated to this new third setting.

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While this modification is defined as designed to assist cut back the quantity of spam acquired in DMs, it additionally blocks messages from customers who don’t subscribe to Twitter Blue. Fortunately, you may simply undo this new (and sure undesirable) default. Head to Settings > Privacy and Safety > Direct Messages, then re-select the choice for Allow Message Requests from everybody.

With current studies of Twitter’s income being down by 50 %, this transfer seems to be a strategy to improve the perceived enchantment of Twitter Blue for potential subscribers. If a person with beforehand open DMs doesn’t know to alter their settings, getting verified by means of Twitter Blue can be the one strategy to get their consideration by way of DM. Judging by the comments from users on Twitter, the transfer isn’t a preferred one, nonetheless—which may presumably improve the enchantment of rivals like Meta’s newly launched Threads.