Twitter is making pinned DMs available to all users. The feature was previously restricted to Twitter Blue subscribers. Twitter is among the world's most popular social media platforms, with a user base of over 300 million monthly active users. That said, the social network still falls short of Facebook and Instagram, which boast 2.9 billion and over one billion monthly active users, respectively. Of course, Twitter's use case is different. The objective of Twitter is to let users share their opinion and have conversations, rather than post updates on their personal lives.
In 2021, Twitter launched the Twitter Blue subscription model, offering users exclusive perks for a monthly fee. Twitter Blue was initially launched in Australia and Canada and rolled out to the U.S. in November 2021. The subscription service is priced at $2.99 per month. Twitter Blue offers several features to subscribers, such as Bookmarks where users can organize saved tweets into custom folders. There's also an Undo tweet option, which gives users the ability to preview and modify their tweet before it goes live. Users can set a 30-second timer during which they have the opportunity to click 'Undo' on a tweet. Other features include a Reader Mode for long threads, customizable app icons and color themes, and dedicated customer support.
Given that pinned messages were initially a Twitter Blue exclusive feature, it's odd to see it being made available to the general public. Twitter announced that all its users will now have the ability to pin up to six conversations in their messages inbox. The feature has already gone live and is available on Android, iOS, and the web. On the Twitter app for Android and iOS, the method for pinning a tweet is the same. Users will need to open their DMs and long-press any conversation. This will display a pop-up, from where the user needs to select 'Pin Conversation.' Users can repeat the process to pin up to six conversations. The remaining DMs appear under 'All conversations.'
If visiting Twitter on the web, users will need to click on the 'Messages' button on the left column to open up their Twitter inbox. They will then have to click on the three-dot icon next to any conversation and select 'Pin Conversation.' Unpinning a conversation works the same way. Users will need to click on the three-dot icon in a pinned message on the web or long-press a conversation in the Twitter app and select 'Unpin conversation.'
Pinned DMs might not be useful for all Twitter users, especially if they don't use the private messaging feature much or have a relatively low number of followers. For those accounts with a huge follower count though, keeping track of private conversations that matter can get difficult since it requires the user to type in a username to search for a specific message. The ability to pin messages isn't the only recent change that Twitter has brought to DMs. In August 2021, Twitter introduced some new features for its app, such as the ability to DM a tweet to up to 20 people separately. A quick scroll button to jump to the latest message in a private conversation was added, as was the ability to long-press on a message to add a reaction.
Source: Twitter
