Twitter adds new updates to Direct Messages

As per details, the changes include the ability to send a direct message to multiple people in separate conversations.

Users can now share a tweet in up to 20 separate DM conversations, if the goss is hot enough to share with that many individual tweeters at once.

The upcoming feature is coming to the iOS and web versions of Twitter first, and Android soon.

No more (awkward) accidental group chats when you DM a Tweet to multiple people. Now you can share the same Tweet in up to 20 different DM convos, separately.

Rolling out on iOS and web, and soon on Android. (2/5) pic.twitter.com/oHYseF3EJE

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) August 19, 2021

And one more thing: we’ve made it easier to scan a convo by grouping messages by date for less timestamp clutter.

Rolling out on iOS. (5/5)

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) August 19, 2021

In addition, for iOS users, the company is tweaking DM timestamps; now instead of stamping each message within a DM conversation with the date and time, the messages will be grouped by day.

This will reduce “timestamp clutter,” Twitter says. And iOS users will soon be able to access the “add reaction” buttons not only by double-tapping but by long-pressing on a message.

The Twitter has added many new features in the past several months, including a new process to report COVID misinformation, an update to its API to make it easier for other apps to point to its Spaces audio chats, and a change to its font.

In addition to the new DM features, on Thursday Twitter also announced it was testing a feature that would make it easier for users to subscribe to Twitter users’ Revue newsletters directly from a Twitter profile. That’s rolling out to web and Android users to start.

CREDIT: THE VERGE