New Delhi: Twitter users can now privately send photos to each other, the company has said.
The new feature is an update to versions of its iOS and Android apps. That means users can now send and receive images through DM on both mobile and web versions of the service.
The new feature should help Twitter compete with photo-sharing apps like Snapchat, which are meant for sharing private moments instead of displaying them in public.
The Twitter app has also received an upgrade in terms of switching feeds, Jeremy Gordon, the company's senior director of product engineering, wrote in a blog post. Now, you just have to swipe left or right to move from the Home timeline to the Discover timeline to the Activity timeline is a simple matter of swiping left or right.
In addition, users will get new added features depending on the operating system they use. Android users will get the ability to receive notifications for actions from specific users by simply tapping the star on their profile, while iOS users will see new in-app notifications whenever someone interacts with one of their tweets or sends them a direct message.
