Threads is finally getting a DM inbox

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says today that the The company’s social network thread Finally users will start examining a DM (direct message) inbox separately from the Instagram DM inbox. This means that threads users do not have to use Instagram or Switch applications to chat with someone on the platform.

The company will initially examine this feature in limited geographies, including Hong Kong, Thailand and Argentina, with plans to roll out at other places soon. The chat feature is not currently group messages, but confined to one conversation after another.

This will probably be seen as a positive development for Meta’s new social network. As TechCrunch has been previously mentionedMany people have different sets of followers in the thread than on Instagram. Also, there is an opportunity that some thread users often do not use their Instagram accounts, if they use the app absolutely.

Instagram is thinking about how to get to 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 appThe

In 2023, Instagram’s chief Adam Mosaio D The social network that hoped that Instagram would work for the inbox for threads. At that time he was thinking that both social networks have the same following, which is not always true.

When the threads emerged in July 2023, it was dependent on the network effects of Instagram, with features that immediately connect Instagram users with their friends and other creators. However, after more than 20 months of existence, the company realized that people were forming different types of networks on threads due to the similarities with public nature and other short-form applications like X and Blocky.

Meta says it was decided to create a separate DM inbox feature because threads users were seeking a way for one-to-one-way without switching apps.

Although it is good that the threads eventually make a DM inbox available, the company delayed it.

Its rival social network Blueuski launched DMS in May 2024The Elon Mask-owned X publishes a few days after the publication of the Meta also announces A new exchang feature To share group messages, vanishing mode and files, to improve on DMs.