Twitter’s direct DM test is a terrible idea

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A potential recipe for harassment.

Twitter is exploring a new way to send DMs on iOS, and it involves letting users slide into your inbox through a link on your tweets, bypassing the DM button on your profile. The platform says this will make it easier to “start a conversation” from your timeline — but you can probably see how this can goOne extra step of having to go to someone’s profile to send a DM cuts back on harassment.At least give us a safety feature to not allow this on our tweets.

It’s hard to see who exactly this feature could benefit — close friends may want a quick way to DM each other, but I think most people are comfortable going to a friend’s Twitter profile to send them a message, or just simply continuing an existing conversation from their inbox. Giving users a shortcut to someone’s private messages could open a Pandora’s Box of problems. Twitter already knows nasty DMs can be a problem, which is why it rolled out a feature in 2019 that

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