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Why do you say DMs are by far the most important feature? Lots of other services provide DMs besides Twitter, and I would not say it is the key thing that makes
by globalharming 3y ago
Why do you say DMs are by far the most important feature? Lots of other services provide DMs besides Twitter, and I would not say it is the key thing that makes Twitter what it is. At least for myself, in a dozen years on the platform I used DMs only a small handful of times.
- HamptonFounders 3y agoMaybe this is different depending on what industry you're in - but for a lot of people in my circle (tech/startup media), the incredible thing about Twitter is that you can DM almost anyone. I've connected with so many people there. There's also a culture of DMing there, where your messages have a higher likelihood of getting replied to than other places like LinkedIn. I didn't use DMs for years. And also wasn't a big Twitter person at all. So I get it. But that all changed a few years ago, and now, I'm tellin ya' - the only feature that matters there is the DMs.
- lapcat 3y ago> the incredible thing about Twitter is that you can DM almost anyone. I can't imagine having open DMs. I've tried that, and ugh, the unsolicited messages from strangers were terrible.
- rsynnott 3y agoSee, this is the fascinating thing about Twitter; it's so incredibly compartmentalised (or at least _was_; as another article posted here recently went into some detail on, recent changes have tended to break this). I had no idea this was even a thing; in my former Twitter circles this behaviour (unsolicited) would've largely been considered pretty rude, and in any case it's not clear why anyone would want to do it.