Twitter: Direct Messages Now Available to Non-Followers

Twitter continues its phase of significant changes to interaction mechanisms on the chirping blue bird’s platform.
Today brings a new development regarding the internal messaging system: users will be able to message each other privately even without a direct connection between accounts.
Until now, direct messages could only be sent to one’s own followers, but a new atmosphere is beginning to blow through the microblogging-based social network.
There is more “openness,” so to speak: communications will theoretically be much simpler and more fluid.
However, to make this possible, users will need to explicitly accept the functionality of receiving messages from anyone.
This procedure will serve to reassure those who prefer to avoid receiving messages from strangers, especially since such a novelty could undoubtedly open the door to spammers.
For this reason, the Twitter staff has immediately provided for the choice, not installing the activation by default but allowing users to enable it manually and therefore consciously, thus avoiding having to act later with a further update.
Moreover, the margins of acceptance of this change are evidently very clear to the work team that has programmed the possibility of sending private messages between strangers and between unconnected accounts.

It is worth recalling that this new task was launched in beta version to a limited number of users, so as to test its effectiveness, user satisfaction, and overall functionality.
Having been refined, the new tool for rapid and direct communication has therefore been released for everyone. You won’t have to wait long: within a couple of days, all accounts will be equipped with it.