Twitter can be a fun place to share and interact with your fellow humans. However, it can also be a wretched hive of scum and villainy. That’s why keeping your Twitter direct messages open is a bit of a risk, but Twitter is rolling out a feature to keep the riffraff at bay. Soon, all DMs from strangers will be segregated from the messages you care about.
The change to DMs only applies if you have your account set to allow messages from people you don’t follow.
Twitter will now dump DMs from people you don’t know into a ‘Requests’ tab was written by the awesome team at Android Police.