Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today that Social network threads of the company Finally, an DM (direct message) will begin to test the inbox that differs from users’ Instagram DM inbox. This means that threads users will not have to use Instagram or Switch apps to chat with someone on the platform.
The company will initially test this feature in limited geography including Hong Kong, Thailand and Argentina, which will soon plan to roll out it at other places. The chat feature is currently limited to one-per-one conversations, not group messages.
This will probably be seen as a positive development for the latest social networks of meta. As Techcrunch noted firstMany people have a separate set of followers on threads on Instagram. In addition, there is a chance that some numbers thread users often do not use their Instagram accounts, if they use the app.
Instagram is wondering how to contact threads DMS for some time.
Last year, the company was working on a prototype that allowed users to send a message to them Instagram inbox directly from threads app,
In 2023, Instagram Head Adam Mosari is also Said The social network expected Instagram inbox to work for threads. At that time, his thinking was that people follow the same on both social networks, which is not always true.
When threads started in July 2023, it was very much dependent on the network effects of Instagram, with the characteristics that immediately had Instagram users associated with their friends and other creators. But after existence more than 20 months, the company felt that people were creating a variety of networks on threads, due to its public nature and equality with other short-form apps such as X and Blussky.
Meta said that it decided to create a separate DM inbox facility as threads were asking a way to make a conversation without switching the user apps.
Although it is good that Threads finally provided a DM inbox, the company was late to roll it out.
Its rival social network Blussky introduced DMS in May 2024The announcement of the meta also comes a few days after Elon Musk owned by Elon Musk. A new xchat feature Group messages to improve DMS, with support for missing mode and file sharing.
