Two years later, Meta DMS is made on official topics

Meta just announced two weeks ago that it will finally start test A. For direct messages on topics. Now, it makes the feature official and introduces DMS to everyone. As with the previous test, the update will add a messenger tab to the Threads application where users can access the incoming box and exchange DMS with problems.

Meta says that at first people will not be able to send messages to users who are already following them or Instagram subscribers, although she plans to put off the most controllers in the inbox in a later update. The correspondence will also not be available to users of topics over 18 years. Also, the application will not support group messages at the present time, although it appears to be in business. These restrictions can be somewhat frustrated because they make DMS topics more limited than they are on Instagram, but it is still more convenient than Meta’s previous insistence on relying on For topics.

The company’s executive officials initially opposed the DMS to the topics. Instagram president Adam Musairi explained his thinking in 2023, noting that “the strands of messages excessive with each of your friends with the same handles in two different applications” look like a less than perfect solution. But this position made less and less logical as the topics have grown to more than 350 million users. “More than a third of the daily interconnection indicators follow contacts often follow different accounts on the interconnected indicators of Instagram, which indicates that messaging chains create a unique user base,” Meta notes in the blog post.

Two years later, the company is also working on more explicit threads as an alternative to X instead of another branch of Instagram. While Musairi The goal of “not to replace Twitter”, Meta since then Its ban on the recommendation of political content With features to help users find familiar creators from X. The company also relied heavily in conversations and news in actual time by making topics more prominent in the application and the surface race In recommendations. Today’s update also adds the “Distinguish Tool” feature that will make the trends more clear in user extracts.