Depending on how your Twitter settings are configured, strangers you don't follow may be allowed to DM you. This setting allows for a lot of potential spam and ...

Twitter’s direct messages have always been a security liability. The DMs you send to friends and Internet strangers aren’t end-to-end encrypted, making your conversations potentially accessible if ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Twitter users should delete their direct messages (DMs) now ...

You’ll have to be a Twitter Blue verified user, a verified organization, or an affiliate to send an encrypted DM. You’ll have to be a Twitter Blue verified user, a verified organization, or an ...

Twitter is getting an upgrade soon, and this was something that Mr. Tweet reacted to in the social media which centers on the direct messaging feature of the platform. There is a poll that asks the ...

Twitter has again made its platform a little less usable for people who choose not to pay for a Blue subscription. The company has announced that it will soon implement a new rule that puts a limit on ...

Elon Musk's long-promised launch of encrypted direct messages on Twitter has arrived. Like most attempts to add end-to-end encryption to a massive existing platform—never an easy proposition—there's ...

Twitter users have patiently awaited encrypted direct messaging ever since Elon Musk ushered it to the front of his wishlist of changes when buying Twitter in 2022. Only this past March did we hear ...