Twitter is slowly persevering with to boost its direct messaging interface amid a tidal wave of product updates over the past yr. The corporate introduced as we speak that it’ll now allow customers to pin six conversations to the highest of their DM inbox for straightforward entry. The characteristic is offered on iOS, Android and net.
Final yr, Twitter made some long-awaited adjustments to DMs, together with the power to DM a tweet to a number of folks directly in particular person dialog. As an alternative of timestamping particular person messages with the date and time, Twitter additionally began grouping messages by day to “reduce timestamp clutter.”
It wouldn’t be stunning if Twitter unveiled much more new DM options over the subsequent a number of months. Twitter acquired two messaging corporations in the previous couple of months of 2021: Sphere, a London-based group chat app, and Quill, a would-be Slack rival. Workers at each Sphere and Quill have been absorbed into Twitter, with former Quill workers working particularly on messaging. Quill founder Ludwig Pettersson, the previous artistic director of Stripe, joined Twitter as a undertaking supervisor on the Conversations workforce.
Supply: Tech Crunch
