Twitter on Tuesday has once again
added support for sharing URLs via direct messages (DM).
The Twitter support page till Monday had a message noting that the company is
updating its backend and infrastructure when describing the lack of the URL
sharing ability in direct messages, reports The Next Web.
According to the firm, the backend
work was required to help stop spam links that could end up flooding users'
direct messages.
Notably, Twitter has a limit of 250 direct messages
per day (including sent and received) per account, and users beyond this limit
cannot send or receive any more direct messages in one day. The social
networking company can also suspend the ability to send direct messages for
users who try to send duplicate messages to multiple accounts - both of which
are methods to stop spam.
"Sending duplicate DMs to
multiple accounts may be flagged as spam activity and can result in you not
being able to send a DM for a short time. You may need to wait at least 30
minutes without any attempt at sending a DM before you'll be able to do so
again," notes Twitter support page.
Meanwhile, the TNW report also says that Twitter is expected to roll out private
sharing of public tweets via DMs this week.
Last week,
Dick Costolo, Chief Executive, Twitter, had said that some new private
messaging features would be introduced in the current quarter.
"I strongly believe private
messaging virality is important to our long term growth," Costolo said, a
reference to when online content goes viral or is popularly shared.
Costolo
noted that some of the Executives said the company needed to do a better job
helping new users understand how to use the service. An upcoming "instant
timeline" will quickly provide new users with content without requiring
them to search Twitter for individual users to follow.
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