Threads has formally launched direct messaging for everybody. Now you can privately message different customers on the Meta-owned X rival, although Threads will solely permit DMs between your followers or mutual followers on Instagram to start out.
You possibly can ship a DM on Threads by choosing the envelope icon within the toolbar on the backside of your display within the app. From there, you’ll be directed to your inbox, the place you may faucet the pencil button within the top-right nook to start out composing a message.
Threads’ DMs are at present obtainable to customers aged 18 and over on Android, iOS, and the net, however you may solely have one-on-one conversations proper now. Transferring ahead, Threads plans to roll out the power to decide on who can ship you messages, together with individuals who don’t comply with you on Threads and Instagram. You’ll additionally have the ability to evaluation a folder devoted to message requests, much like what’s provided on X. Threads is engaged on a gaggle messaging characteristic and inbox filters, too.
Although the platform says its DMs are “protected by our sturdy privateness requirements, account protections and security infrastructure,” Threads spokesperson Alec Booker confirmed to The Verge that “Threads is not going to assist end-to-end encryption for messaging.” Booker provides that Meta will “proceed evolving DMs on Threads based mostly on suggestions from the group.”
Threads began testing DMs in June.
Together with DMs, Threads introduced a brand new “highlighter” characteristic that can name consideration to “distinctive views that result in considerate conversations.” For now, you’ll solely see highlighted content material in components of the app the place you discover new content material — like your For You feed — to mark trending matters. Threads plans on bringing its highlighter characteristic to extra areas of the app quickly.