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Twitter now blocking all DMs from non-Twitter Blue subscribers by default (mashable.com)
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[–] Tar_alcaran@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Because the short-term equation is easy:

Would you rather have 10 users paying nothing but taking up server space and bandwidth? Or would you prefer 1 paying user and 9 people leaving? In the short term, option B is a win-win.

And if that leads to Twitter becoming a dead husk of itself, oh well, that's a problem for next quarter