In his continued battle against bots on Twitter, Elon Musk announced that the social media platform might soon limit the ability to send out Direct Messages (DMs) to people who don’t follow you unless you are a Blue subscriber.

Musk’s announcement came as a response when a user shared a screenshot of his DMs being spammed by bots. He added that the update should “hopefully” release this week.

“As I’ve said many times, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish between AI bots. Soon, it will be impossible. The only ‘social networks’ that survive will be those that require verification. The payment system is a means of verification that increases bot cost by ~10,000X,” he added.

Leaker Alessandro Paluzzi also shared a screenshot of the same on Twitter. According to him, the current limit is set to 500 messages a day and it is not clear what the new limit will be for non-Blue users.

#Twitter is working to limit the number of DMs you can send per day before having to sign up for @TwitterBlue