HIGHLIGHTS
- In late 2021, Twitter began testing Pinned discussions.
- Conversations saved on one device sync to others.
- Pinned chats may also be featured in various competing messaging programmes.
Twitter has added a pinned conversations feature to its Direct Messages (DM) service for iOS, Android, and the Web, allowing users to pin discussions to the top of their inbox. Even if additional messages from other chats arrive, pinning conversations maintains them at the top of the chat list. The function was previously available as part of Twitter Blue, the company's premium membership programme that provides early access to new features before they are made available to the general public.
On Friday, the microblogging site revealed that users may now pin up to six conversations to the top of their DM inbox on Android, iOS, and Twitter for Web.
Gadgets 360 examined the feature and discovered that pinning a chat on one device brings it to the top of other devices as well. When you pin a discussion, it is moved to a new area called Pinned conversations, while the other talks are presented under All conversations.
Twitter will now enable users to pin a group chat to the top of their inbox, making it simpler to discover a discussion with more than one participant, especially if your inbox is highly busy (or active). However, pressing the share option to send a tweet through DM does not display pinned discussions at the top – Twitter appears to have kept the chronological order of talks for this menu.
Pinned conversations are a feature available in multiple major messaging applications, including WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Google's and Apple's Messages apps, and Facebook Messenger, which all allow users to pin conversations to the top of their chat list. The microblogging service is the latest to add the functionality, and it comes shortly after it purchased Slack competitor Quill in December to help it strengthen its messaging features.
Twitter created a Labs section last year to provide Twitter Blue subscribers early access to new features before they were sent out to other users. The first two features tested as part of Twitter Blue Labs were pinned chats on iOS and lengthier uploads on desktop. Longer video uploads and NFT (Non-fungible token) profile images are now listed as features available to test with Twitter Blue Labs and might be rolled out to all users at a later date, according to the company's help centre.
