Twitter:
While Twitter is largely a public experience, Direct Messages let you have private conversations about the memes, news, movements, and events that unfold on Twitter. Each of the hundreds of millions of Tweets sent across Twitter every day is an opportunity for you to spark a conversation about what’s happening in your world. That’s why we’ve made a number of changes to Direct Messages over the last few months. Today’s change is another big step towards making the private side of Twitter even more powerful and fun.
I honestly don’t know if this is a good thing or not.
Didn’t they ban independent apps from accessing direct messages? Just another nail in Twitter’s coffin if so.
Oh god, it’s such a good thing. I had a 6 tweet message about banner specs with a friend I converse with over Twitter just today that would have been so much easier to read in one DM rather than 6 tweets coming in at random times breaking the flow of the explanation I was trying to get across.
I think twitter missed the boat by not expanding to 256 characters, as app.net did. Not that it did them any good…