Twitter is slowly persevering with to boost its direct messaging interface amid a tidal wave of product updates during the last yr. The corporate introduced right now that it’s going to now allow customers to pin six conversations to the highest of their DM inbox for simple entry. The function is out there on iOS, Android and net.
Final yr, Twitter made some long-awaited modifications to DMs, together with the flexibility to DM a tweet to a number of individuals without delay 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 “scale back timestamp muddle.”
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. Staff at each Sphere and Quill had been absorbed into Twitter, with former Quill employees working particularly on messaging. Quill founder Ludwig Pettersson, the previous artistic director of Stripe, joined Twitter as a mission supervisor on the Conversations workforce.
