Something was very wrong with Twitter Wednesday afternoon, but it’s not clear exactly what. For several hours, core features, including direct messages and tweets, were not working for large swaths of ...

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Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Elon Musk's X – all these sites allow users to privately chat with other users right inside the platform. Almost every major social media platform has a direct message ...

Instagram is rolling out some new features for direct messaging to make chatting and connecting with friends easier. The update is adding more sticker options, the ability to create custom nicknames ...

Using Twitter has been a wild ride for the past couple of months, with updates and changes coming constantly. With the latest updates to Twitter for Android and iOS, the option to send a direct ...

Twitter is known for allowing people to post messages, or tweets, of no more than 280 characters. Tweeting or reading through tweets all day can become boring, especially if nothing new is coming up ...

DM is an abbreviation for a private "direct message" sent online. The term grew popular on Facebook and Twitter, where you can send either private or public messages. "DM" as it's used now can refer ...

Messaging on Twitter is about to become a lot more private. According to the company's CEO and overlord Elon Musk, Twitter is launching "version 1.0" of encrypted direct messaging on Thursday. This ...

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Rolling out now, the SoundCloud app for Android is adding support for direct messages, ahead of iOS even offering the feature. Direct messages on SoundCloud have been available for some time, but only ...

I would like to send Cristiano Ronaldo a direct message on Twitter. Or Harry Kane or Kylian Mbappe or Erling Haaland. In a dream world, it would be great to send these superstars a speculative message ...