Instagram DMs add live location sharing and nicknames Instagram added new stickers and is letting you give friends nicknames and your location. | Image: InstagramInstagram is adding the ability to share your live location with friends in your DMs for up to one hour at a time so you can find each other when arriving at concerts, outings, and other gatherings. The feature works within Instagram’s dir…

DMs on Instagram still work in 2025? DMs on Instagram are far from dead; in fact, they remain a vital communication tool for businesses and users alike. Here are some key points highlighting the continued relevance and effectiveness of Instagram Direct Messages (DMs): High Engagement Rates: A significant number of users prefer private messaging for brand interactions. Statistics s…

Are DMs dead on Instagram? Is anybody really talking to eachother on the platform? Or are they just consuming reels and watching other people’s stories? submitted by /u/Mayhem_anon

Threads might get DMs after all — but it’ll probably be through Instagram Image: The VergeThe will-they-won’t-they of Threads direct messages has been going on for a while now. Last we heard, Instagram (and Threads) head Adam Mosseri said that Threads was not planning to build DMs. That still appears to be true — but it’s not the whole story. Mosseri said on Tuesday, in a Threads post replying to Platformer’s Casey Ne…

Instagram will finally let you disable read receipts in DMs Image: Kristen Radtke / The VergeSoon, Instagram users will have a choice about using read receipts in direct message conversations. Mark Zuckerberg and Adam Mosseri both announced on their Instagram Broadcast channels that the change is currently in testing, and Mosseri included this picture showing the toggle as well as what it looks like in a…

LitExtension vs BigCommerce DMS My company is in the process of porting our site from Magento 1 to BigCommerce. We have around 8000 products, 600 categories, and 200 custom fields. On top of this, all files related to products (images and PDFs) are hosted on the Magento server and need to be ported over to BigCommerce’s WebDAV as well. I figured since we are migrating to BigCo…

My Instagram is still sending unsolicited DMs even after I changed passwords earlier Someone was sending “I need help, send money” type messages from my FB and IG business pages earlier I changed passwords and enabled 2FA – but it’s still happening This is getting worrying now I spent years building both pages Steps I’ve taken so far: Passwords changed I checked the log to see what devices are logged in, it’s just my own p…

Is Instagram dms a good way to outreach in 2023? does it feel spammy or untrustworthy? I have just started a social media management service where I will manage and help individual content creators to grow thier accounts, I am currently sending 50 dms per day, is it feasible? does this method even pull any clients? If insta isnt a good then what is, cold emails? cold calls? does anyone check their emails nowadays? I think emails a…

Special counsel obtained ‘some volume’ of DMs from Donald Trump’s Twitter account Image: Laura Normand / The VergeUS special counsel Jack Smith acquired direct messages — potentially including deleted messages — from former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, unsealed court transcripts have revealed. The transcripts, spotted by Politico, show that engineers for Twitter (now known as X) were able to produce Trump’s Twitt…

LPT: Live your life in a way that Jack Smith never has to look through your dms. Pretty straightforward really. Some don’t seem to understand that though. submitted by /u/ElRichardWoke

Elon Musk’s best idea for stopping spambots is making you pay for extra Twitter DMs Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty ImagesTwitter will “soon” implement daily limits on the number of direct messages unverified accounts will be able to send in “an effort to reduce spam,” the company announced on Friday via its Twitter Support account. In other words, to send unlimited DMs, you’ll need to pay for a Twitter Blue s…