Twitter turned over at least 32 direct messages from former President Donald Trump’s account – @realDonaldTrump – to special counsel Jack Smith earlier this year as part of the federal ...

To justify this latest constraint, Twitter said the goal was to reduce spam in direct messages. Twitter users who tweak their settings to receive DMs can be subjected to junk messages from spammers.

Twitter direct messages can be deleted only if every party in the chat agrees to do so and even then, it’s unclear whether or for how long the data remains stored on its servers.

That leaves Twitter playing catch-up to provide similar security for its users who need to send and receive confidential or private direct messages. Also: How to enable end-to-end encryption for ...

Twitter announced Friday that it will limit the number of direct messages a user can send in an attempt to reduce spam. The company’s support page said that unverified accounts will have a limit ...

July 22 (UPI) --Twitter announced that the company will limit the number of direct messages users can send daily as it encouraged people to "subscribe today" to Twitter Blue."We'll soon be ...

The latest Twitter updates for Android and iOS rolled out late last week and, apparently, have removed the option to send a direct message to another account directly from a profile page for all ...

Trump asks Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself in Jan. 6 case 08:25. Washington — Special counsel Jack Smith obtained at least 32 direct messages found in Donald Trump's Twitter account as ...

Messaging on Twitter is about to become a lot more private. According to the company's CEO and overlord Elon Musk, Twitter is launching "version 1.0" of encrypted direct messaging on Thursday ...

Mr. Trump’s Twitter account was often managed by Dan Scavino, a longtime adviser going back to his days in his private business, and it was unclear if any direct messages were from when he was ...

Special counsel Jack Smith has obtained a cache of former President Trump’s Twitter direct messages after a federal judge ordered the social media company to hand them over last winter, court… ...

Something was very wrong with Twitter Wednesday afternoon, but it’s not clear exactly what. For several hours, core features, including direct messages and tweets, were not working for large ...