Twitter has for years tested a feature that would allow anyone to opt in to receive direct messages from other users on its platform, even if the accounts weren’t following each other as per earlier ...

Twitter is taking a page out of Apple’s playbook with its latest messaging feature. The social network announced today that it is rolling out support for adding iMessage-like reactions to direct ...

You can message someone on Instagram through the platform's direct messaging feature, which lets you reach out to anyone with an Instagram account. Users don't need to follow you, nor do you need to ...

Is this a feature or a bug? Twitter, the popular 140-character social network, has now made it easier than ever for anyone to send you a Direct Message. According to Twitter, "Communicating with ...

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 users who want to encrypt their direct messages will now finally have a shot, though there are a few conditions and constraints that may get in your way. Twitter itself announced the new ...

Snapchat might be the reigning photo- and video-messaging app among the youngest millennials, but it's not the world's most intuitive platform. From messaging to Stories to Discover, it's easy to get ...

A couple of years ago, Instagram launched Instagram Direct, a built-in messaging system that lets users share photos or videos with each other -- either one-on-one or in groups of up to 15 people. Now ...

Twitter continues to expand the capabilities of its direct messaging functionality today. After rolling out its new abuse filter for Direct Messages yesterday, Twitter is now expanding the ...

YouTube is currently testing out a direct messaging feature on the platform, which the company previously removed years ago. Credit: Valera Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Almost ...

A few days ago, I got a direct message on Twitter from a friend with whom I hadn’t spoken in a while. “lol ur famous now,” she wrote, and supplied a link. Without a thought beyond, “She must have a ...