Twitter New DMs

Yesterday, in a move that will surely result in untold amounts of inappropriate photos, Twitter announced that they have added the ability to send photos in direct messages. Luckily, they also removed the option to receive DMs from anyone last month or this could have gotten very ugly, very fast. According to Twitter’s official announcement:

For the first time, you can share and view photos via direct message (DM) on your mobile phone. We’ve also introduced a new tab in the navigation bar that makes it easy to access DMs –– they’re just one tap away from wherever you are on Twitter.

While this may not be a drastic update, it displays the companies shift towards mainstream media – as opposed to social media. No doubt that this update is targeted at corporate accounts, which will now be able to fill their followers’ DMs with media rich promos and ads.

There was quite an outpouring of wit on Twitter as a result of the update. Mike Isaac – the Senior Editor of AllThingsD – had some especially noteworthy comments:

Which he followed up with: