Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Instagram Rolls Out Feature to Schedule Direct Messages

Instagram to launch Community Notes feature soon

Instagram, one of the most popular social media platforms, is testing a new feature that allows users to schedule messages. This addition lets users specify a time for their messages to be sent automatically to others, enhancing convenience and planning. The feature aligns with Instagram’s existing scheduling tools for posts, reels, and other content, expanding … Read more

Threads vs. Twitter: How These 6 Features Could Change the Social Media Landscape

Threads vs. Twitter

Threads lacks essential features like hashtags and trends found on Twitter. The absence of direct messaging on Threads hampers private conversations and content sharing. Adding a live audio feature would enhance user engagement and keep up with Twitter’s Spaces. Threads, the microblogging platform developed by Meta as a potential rival to Twitter, has entered the … Read more

Tricks 2020: How to add special effects to Instagram messages?

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Now you can use cool new special effects for Instagram direct messages (DM) through the recent software update, Facebook merged Messenger and Instagram messages, and since then the latter has gained some cool new features, such as the capability to set custom chat colors, disappear modes, custom emoji reactions, etc. Now, when you reply to … Read more

Twitter introduces new feature to prevent from unwanted messages

Twitter allowed matching phone numbers of users with their twitter accounts. Security researcher Ibrahim Balic pointed out this security flaw in December 2019 but came out now.

Twitter on Monday said it is rolling out a filter that will hide away unwanted direct messages, providing a new tool to stymie abuse. Twitter users who receive direct messages from people they don’t follow on the platform will be able to have such missives automatically routed to a secondary folder. “Unwanted messages aren’t fun,” … Read more