News & Reviews:   direct messages

Twitter might have brought end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for direct messages (DMs) back to life. The company had worked on the feature in 2018, but it never gets to see the light. Until now, Jane Manchun Wong, a tech blogger who likes to dig up unreleased features of various apps, claims that the social media company is bringing it back.

Instagram is rolling out a minor update that takes away Stories reactions from direct messages (DMs). It's said to declutter the DMs by relocating the reactions to the other corner.