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Threads Finally Adds Direct Messaging After Long Wait - Jordan News | Latest News from Jordan, MENA
Nearly two years after its launch, Meta’s Threads platform is finally rolling out Direct Messaging (DM) functionality — a much-requested feature by users. The announcement came from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, signaling a shift in the platform's direction toward enhanced user engagement and independence.
Meta's Threads finally gets direct messages. It only took two years
In a recent Threads post, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote that the company’s microblogging platform has started testing out a new feature: direct messages. Confirmed in another Threads post by Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri, DMs have been the most requested feature on Threads since the social network launched in 2023. Meta The Verge writes that direct messages in Threads will get their own inbox, instead of using the inbox of the user’s lin…
The new feature comes to Threads after much criticism of its reliance on Instagram for private communications. Meta has officially started testing direct messaging on Threads, responding to one of the most frequent requests from its users since the social network launched in July 2023. The lack of this feature has been the target of criticism from the community, who saw the lack of private conversations as a significant obstacle to the app's exp…
Direct messages is finally coming to Threads
Remember when Threads launched as the platform that was supposed to dethrone Twitter sorry, X? That was July 2023. Now, almost two years later, it’s only just beginning to test a core feature users have been asking for since day one: direct messaging.On June 10, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Threads will begin testing its own standalone DM system, starting with users in Hong Kong, Thailand, and Argentina. A wider rollout is apparently …
Threads to test direct messaging feature
Meta’s Threads app announced it would begin rolling out direct messaging, features long offered by rivals, in a bid to attract more users. Users in select markets, including Hong Kong and Thailand, will get a dedicated inbox for direct messages on the app as part of the test, eliminating the need to switch to Instagram’s messaging platform. Meta said messages on Threads will not be encrypted for now. Threads and Instagram have long been intertwi…
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