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Similar to most social networking platforms, Twitter allows you to send private messages to other users. You can take advantage of this facility on mobile and desktop platforms by using the “Messages” function.
Steps
Use the Twitter app
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Tap the “Twitter” app to open your account page.
- If you’re not signed into Twitter on your phone, you’ll need to do this to access your account.
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Select the “Messages” tab in the lower right corner of the screen.
- You can tap to open an existing chat on this page.
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Select the “New Message” icon in the upper right corner of the screen. This will open a list of frequently contacted friends on Twitter.
- You can only send messages to people who are following you.
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Select the Twitter user’s contact name. After their name shows up in the drop-down list, tap to add the name to a new message. You can add multiple Twitter users if you want to create group messages.
- You can also type in your friend’s username (using “@name-login”) to find their name.
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Select “Next” in the upper right corner of the screen to open a new message window with the selected contact name.
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Tap the “Start a new message” field at the bottom of the screen to enable the keyboard.
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Type text in the message field. This is how you compose your message. Note that you will have to touch the “Send” button to send the message.
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Tap “GIF” or the camera icon to the left of the message field to add a GIF file or photo. GIF files are an animated image format, and the camera icon allows you to post other types of image files.
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Select “Send” to the right of the message field to send the message. That’s it, you’ve finished sending a direct message!
Use a computer
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Open your favorite browser. To send a message from Twitter, you need to log in to your Twitter account first.
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Visit the Twitter page . If you’re signed in to Twitter, this will take you to your Twitter account’s home page.
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Enter login information including your phone number or username or email address and password.
- Click the “Log in” option in the upper right corner of the screen after entering the information.
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Click the “Messages” tab at the top of the screen in the “Home” hashtag group.
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Click “New Message” to open a window showing the names of your frequent contacts.
- If you want to message these people, just click on their name,
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Type the names of your Twitter friends into the field at the top of the window. This will open a drop-down list with the name of the person you’re looking for, along with the names of similar Twitter accounts.
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Click your friends’ names on Twitter. This will add the last name to the “New Message” field; you can add a name if you want to send a message to multiple people at the same time.
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Click “Next” in the bottom-right corner of the screen to open a chat window, allowing you to compose your message.
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Compose your message at the field at the bottom of the screen. Note that you will have to click the “Send” button to send the message.
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Click “GIF” or the camera icon to the right of the message field at the bottom of the screen to add a GIF file or photo.
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Click “Send” to send the message after composing the content!
- Another way to send a message is to go to your friend’s Twitter account page and click “Message” below the profile picture on the left side of the screen.
Manage your direct messages
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Go to the Twitter page or open the phone app. You can perform many actions on messages available in the “Messages” tab.
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Open Twitter’s message archive by tapping or clicking the “Messages” tab on your device.
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Tap the checkmark icon at the top of the message menu. This will mark your messages as read and delete notifications from your inbox.
- This icon is on the left side of the menu on the phone app, and on the web version it’s next to the New Message icon.
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Tap or click to open the message. You can change the settings of a chat right on the page that displays the chat.
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Tap or click the ellipsis to open the menu of each conversation.
- This icon is in the upper right corner of the phone and computer screens.
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View message selection. You have three common choices for each message:
- “Turn off notifications” – Turn off new message notifications for a specific conversation.
- “Leave conversation” – Delete your contact information in the conversation. If you use this option, Twitter will ask you to confirm your decision because the conversation will be deleted from your inbox.
- “Flag” – Report spam. When you use this option, you will be asked to choose “Flag as spam” or “Mark as abusive”.
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Tap the “Add people” option to add the contact to the conversation. You can only do this on the phone app; If you want to open a group chat on your computer, you have to create a chat with multiple people in the first place.
- After selecting “Add people”, you will touch to add the contact name from the drop-down list.
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Return to Twitter homepage when done. You can return to the Messages tab at any time to continue managing your direct messages.
Advice
- Twitter messages are private by default.
Warning
- You can’t contact someone you haven’t followed from their profile.
- Normally, you can’t send messages to high-impact accounts like celebrities or politicians.
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