Twitter has revealed a brand-new interface for its direct messages on the web, enabling you to send and receive DMs without needing to leave your timeline. While presently you have to open a separate section of Twitters site to take a look at your DMs, now youll have the ability to access them from a pop-up window to the bottom right of your timeline. From Twitters video, it appears like a similar interface to what the likes of Facebook and LinkedIn currently offer for DMs on their platforms.
By the end of the day, high profile accounts from the likes of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Apple had all tweeted similar messages, leading Twitter to eventually take the unprecedented action of avoiding all confirmed accounts from tweeting completely. The social media eventually verified that its internal tools had been compromised, adding to the hack. Suffice it to state, the event took all the wind out of the sails of Twitters product statement.
It appears like a good enhancement for the platforms messaging interface, but Twitter wound up revealing the feature at the worst possible time, throughout the worst hack to ever hit the platform. Twitters official account announced the roll out of the feature at 4:51 pm ET, around half an hour after Tesla CEO Elon Musks Twitter account was hacked to promote a bitcoin fraud.
ok theres likewise a huge bitcoin scam going on though– Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) July 15, 2020
Twitter says the brand-new feature is rolling out on web.
The new interface for Twitter DMs, which appears to have actually been in development given that at least April this year, follows the intro of emoji reactions in January, in addition to a new DM search feature that concerned its iOS app in 2015.
