Twitter Now Lets Users Pin Up to Six DM Conversations on Mobile and Web

Twitter has launched a pinned conversations characteristic for its Direct Messages (DM) service on iOS, Android, and the Web, permitting customers to pin chats to the highest of their inbox. Pinning conversations retains them on the high of the chat record, even when newer messages from different chats are acquired. The characteristic was beforehand a part of Twitter Blue, the corporate’s paid subscription service that grants unique entry to new options earlier than they’re rolled out to different customers.

The microblogging service introduced on Friday that customers can now pin as much as six conversations on the high of their DM inbox on Android and iOS units, in addition to the Twitter for Web.

Gadgets 360 examined the characteristic and located that pinning a dialog on one machine will concurrently carry it to the highest on different units. Pinning a chat will transfer it right into a separate part known as Pinned conversations whereas the opposite chats are listed underneath All conversations.

Twitter will even enable customers to pin a gaggle chat to the highest, which may make it simpler to discover a chat with multiple person, particularly you probably have a really crowded (or lively) inbox. However, tapping the share button to ship a tweet through DM won’t present pinned conversations on the high — Twitter seems to have retained the chronological order of chats for this menu.

Pinned conversations is a standard characteristic discovered throughout a number of well-liked messaging apps — WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Google’s and Apple’s Messages apps, and Facebook Messenger all provide the flexibility to pin conversations to the highest of a person’s chat record. The microblogging service is the final amongst these providers to introduce the characteristic, and it comes shortly after it acquired Slack competitor Quill in December, to assist it enhance its messaging instruments.

Last 12 months, Twitter launched a Labs part to grant early entry to Twitter Blue subscribers, permitting customers to check out new options earlier than they have been rolled out to different customers. Pinned conversations on iOS and longer uploads on desktop have been the primary two options to be examined as a part of Twitter Blue Labs. The firm’s assist at present middle lists longer video uploads and NFT (Non-fungible token) profile footage as options obtainable to check with Twitter Blue Labs, which might roll out to all customers at a future date.