My Twitter app lit up with a direct message alert and I stopped what I was doing to check it. I consider DMs important. They’re private messages between people who follow each other, something akin to a 20th century phone call
This DM was, however, different. It was from actor and Twitter gadfly William Shatner. He was initiating a Twitter Group DM.
The Twitter Group DM icon includes members in the group in a four-square configuration.
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Twitter introduced group DMs and native video on January 27, but it took almost a week for the features to arrive on my Twitter iPhone app. The ability to chat with multiple people at once — like a virtual meeting room — is part of Twitter’s ongoing effort to enhance direct messages and Twitter in general. In recent months the service has introduced the catch-up service called “while you were away,” a password management update, Bing tweet translation and many more new features. Read more...
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