Finally, the topics get the DM inbox

The CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg said today that The company’s social network threads The DM (Direct Mission) test will finally start to test the Instagram DM incoming box for users. This means that interconnection indicators will not have to use Instagram applications or a chatting with someone on the arterial system.

The company will initially test this feature in limited geographical areas, including Hong Kong, Thailand and Argentina, with plans to put it in other locations soon. The chat feature is currently limited to individual conversations, not group messages.

This is likely to be seen as a positive development of the latest social network of Meta. like Techcrunch previously noticedMany people have a different set of followers on themes compared to Instagram. In addition, there is an opportunity for a number of a number of subject users who do not use their Instagram accounts, if they use the application at all.

Instagram was thinking about how to deal with DMS for some time.

Last year, the company was working on an initial model that allowed users to send a message to them Instagram Fund directly from the Threads app.

In 2023, the head of Instagram Adam Musairi as well He said The social network was hoping to make the Instagram incoming box work in favor of topics. His thinking at the time was that people had similar followers on both social networks, and this is not always true.

When the interconnected indicators appeared for the first time in July 2023, it relied heavily on the effects of Instagram network, with the features that link Instagram users immediately with their friends and other creators. But after more than 20 months of existence, the company realized that people were different types of networks on themes, due to their general nature and similarities with other short applications such as X and Bluesky.

Meta said it decided to create a separate DM insert box because users were asking a way to make individual conversations without having to switch applications.

Although it is good to finally allow Threads the DM box, the company is late in its launch.

Her competing social network Bluesky DMS presented in May 2024. The Meta Announcement also comes a few days after the ELON Musk -MULON New XChat feature With the support of group messages, fading mode, file sharing, to improve DMS.