If you’re a Twitter on the web user, like I am, then you’ll be happy to know that the company has now introduced web notifications when you get a direct message.
Just keep Twitter open in a tab and click around wherever else you like, the notification will jump out at you anyways on the top right side of the screen.
https://twitter.com/twitter/status/635873695550996480
When you click on the notification, it’ll open up the DM and let you read and reply.
Additionally, the company tells us that it’s making a change to the DM flow on its Android app:
This one is for the folks trying to take public tweets into a DM to talk trash about it. The onboarding for this process is different now, making it more friendly to those who haven’t tried it. Big avatars, recent conversations, etc.
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Both of these changes are an attempt to get more conversations going privately to keep people coming back to Twitter and hopefully use its public features, as well.
