It is a well known fact that Twitter abandoned this Direct Messages DM feature earlier to fight spam. Now it is said that Twitter is providing this feature back to the users. Can the users share URLs using this DM feature? Can they share the public messages privately using DM feature? When can we expect this feature back?
Hi Ronald M Peterson,
                                        Yes, Twitter has already started again the feature of direct messaging. We can now share url by direct messaging. But one thing here to notice is that a user can send only 250 direct message from a single account. If you cross the limit of 250 message in a day, You will not be able to send more dm on that day.
Also news are that we can share public message privately using this direct messaging feature. Twitter has already start this feature from 18th of November,2014
Twitter is an American social networking and micro-blogging service where users post and interact with messages known as “tweets”. It was created by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams, and Noah Glass in March 2006 and was launched in July of that same year. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, and has over 25 offices worldwide. Back in the early days, tweets are limited to 140 characters.
On November 7, 2017, Twitter doubled this limit to 280 characters for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The service gained rapid popularity worldwide and in 2012, over 100 million users posted 340 million tweets per day. Twitter handles an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. On Twitter, a Direct Message or DM is like a private message sent to you by another user.
DMs are limited to 140 characters which is the limit for a normal tweet in the old days. Unlike with a normal tweet and tweet replies, the only person who can see a Direct Message is the recipient. I only joined Twitter in January 2016.
