Neowin News Feed for: Dm

Meta is trying to give us yet another Reels-first social media platform

Paul Hill — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:50:01 +0000

Meta is trialing a Reels-first experience on Instagram for a limited audience in India. If it's successful, don't be surprised if it expands to a phone near you. Read more...

Instagram spotted working on a Folder Management feature for DMs

Aditya Tiwari — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 04:46:01 +0000

Instagram is working on a feature called Folder Management to organize your chats in its app. The unreleased feature will put messages in different folders that you can rename and re-order. Read more...

Meta is blocking teens on Instagram and Facebook from getting DMs from unfollowed people

John Callaham — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:02:01 +0000

Meta has announced new safety measures for teenagers who use Instagram and Facebook, preventing them from getting DMs from anyone they don't follow, no matter what their age might be. Read more...

Meta doesn't want to give you yet another inbox, use Instagram DMs for now

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 14:16:01 +0000

The freshly launched app Threads doesn't offer its users the ability to send direct messages. According to Instagram's head, as of now, they don't have any plans to build another inbox for the users. Read more...

Twitter will reportedly set a DM limit on non-Blue users

Omer Dursun — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 11:56:01 +0000

Twitter will allegedly implement new rules for DMs. Free users will have limits on sending DMs to non-followers, requiring mutual following for unlimited access. Read on for the details. Read more...

Twitter's encrypted DMs feature is now available, but at a price

Aditya Tiwari — Thu, 11 May 2023 09:28:01 +0000

Twitter's encrypted DMs are now available for eligible users on the latest versions of its app for mobile and web. The feature only works for verified users, verified organizations, and affiliates. Read more...

Slack rolls back ability to send custom messages with DM invites due to harassment

Steven Parker — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 20:00:01 +0000

Earlier today Slack enabled a feature where it was possible to send a DM invite to anyone on Slack, if you know their email address. It was also possible to harass that person with a custom message. Read more...

Slack Connect now lets you message anyone from outside of your company

João Carrasqueira — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:54:01 +0000

Slack has announced a handful of new capabilities for Slack Connect, which lets you communicate with people outside your organization. Now, you can send DMs to anyone from another company. Read more...

EFF tells Twitter to encrypt DMs after hacking incident

Paul Hill — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 20:42:01 +0000

The EFF has said that the recent Twitter breach further highlights the need for direct messages to be end-to-end encrypted. The firm, two years ago, told Senator Wyden it would add the feature. Read more...

Twitter is reportedly working on a search feature for Direct Messages

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 14:54:01 +0000

Twitter has started building search functionality for Direct Messages, allowing you to search past DMs for people or groups; searching by message content is not possible at the moment. Read more...

Twitter is dropping the 140 character limit on Direct Messages

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 08:36:01 +0000

Twitter is making another change to its social network and it's dropping the character limit on direct messages. Coupled with other recent changes, the company hopes this will help its users. Read more...

Twitter CFO shows us how not to use social media with DM fail

Steven Parker — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:21:53 +0000

Anthony Noto, the CFO for Twitter has accidentally revealed plans that the company is about to try to buy another company by tweeting the intent rather than via direct message. Read more...

Twitter starts rolling out option to allow Direct Messaging for non followers

Steven Parker — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:13:27 +0000

Twitter has started rolling out a new option that lets anyone enable direct messaging for non followers. The option will most likely be welcomed by businesses so they can interact with their customers Read more...

Twitter experimenting with DMs for breaking news

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:31:22 +0000

Twitter, ahead of its scheduled IPO, seems to be experimenting with a new way to bring breaking news to its users. Following a certain account will bring important news directly into users' inboxes. Read more...