Twitter has introduced conversation pinning to its direct message (DM) service on iOS, Android, and the web, allowing users to pin chats to the top of their inbox. Pinning conversations keeps them at the top of the chat list even if they receive updated messages from other chats. The feature was previously part of the company’s paid subscription service Twitter Blue, which granted exclusive access to new features before they became available to other users.
The microblogging service announced Friday that users can now pin up to six conversations to the top of their DM inboxes on Android and iOS devices and the web version of Twitter.
Gadgets 360 tested the feature and found that pinning a conversation on one device simultaneously pushed it on top of the others. Pinning a chat will move it to a separate section called Pinned Conversations, while other chats are listed under All Conversations.
Twitter also allows users to pin group chats to the top, which makes it easier to find chats with multiple users, especially if your inbox is very busy (or active). However, when you hit the share button to DM a tweet, the pinned conversation doesn’t appear at the top – Twitter seems to preserve the chronological order of chats in this menu.
Pinning conversations is a common feature in several popular messaging apps – WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Google and Apple messaging apps, and Facebook Messenger all offer the ability to pin a conversation to the top of a user’s chat list for pinning. The Weibo service, the last of those services to roll out the feature, launched shortly after acquiring Slack rival Quill in December to help it improve its messaging tools.
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