A new introduction in form of direct messaging from posts on Twitter arrives. Twitter the popular micro-blogging platform. Now, it is introducing a new feature of Direct Messaging right away from a Tweet. On Twitter, tweets appear on a micro-blogger’s timeline.
What is direct messaging from posts on Twitter?
After introducing the feature of DM immediately available as an option on a post along with other options, anyone can DM the author of the post.
Thus, direct messaging shall take you straight into an author’s message box on Twitter.
Twitter tweeted about the development. As per it, now it is easier to directly drop a text to someone through the icon of DM available on their post.
Currently, IoS users can test the newly introduced feature on the micro blogging platform.
Concerns around DM on Twitter
First and foremost, many users and activists are surfacing with their concerns. Further, they are bringing in the light Twitter’s insensitive face where users can bully others.
As per them, this tool will act as an enabler of harassment. Above all, they are requesting that the feature should be taken back.
What does Twitter have to say about the feature?
Now, Twitter remarks that it has issued alerts with civil servants and public safety experts.
Moreover, they defend that the direct messaging feature on a post shall not make any involuntary changes in the DM settings of a user.
Lastly, it reasserts that it seeks to make DMs more accessible and interface of DMs more interactive.
