Twitter To Start Testing Voice DMs

According to The Verge, Twitter says they will be testing voice DMs soon, after rolling out audio tweets for iOS in June. From the report: Brazil will be the first country included in that test. "We know people want more options for how they express themselves in conversations on Twitter -- both publicly and privately," [Alex Ackerman-Greenberg, product manager for direct messages at Twitter, said in a 20-second voice message].

Similar to voice tweets, voice messages have a bare-bones, simple interface: there's just a play / pause button, and the sender's avatar pulsates as the message plays. The product team designed an "in-line recording experience to make it easier to send these messages as part of the natural conversation flow," so that's one difference from the current audio tweets interface. There's a "report message" option in the event that someone misuses voice DMs, which is always a fair concern with private audio.

Great!

[theshowmecanuck]

More ways to waste time on (anti) social media.

Make way for progress

[TimothyHollins]

If agreeing with the reality-disconnected ramblings of a "more-inclusive-than-though" activist on Twitter ever gave you the satisfactory tingle of filling up with virtue and progressive values, imagine just what you will feel when you get to hear the message in the shrill yet grating tone of the author!

I for one can not wait to put a voice to all that beautiful hatred and mob mentality.

Yes, more novelties and widgets.

[Cmdln Daco]

If they add more novelties and widgets, maybe it will kill twitter. We can hope.

Voice DMs ???

[rossdee]

Dungeon Masters ?

Re: Voice DMs ???

[NateFromMich]

My first thought as well. I wasn't thinking direct messages when twitter was the topic. This is kind of like, "If a tree falls in the forest..."

Madness - total madness

[bb_matt]

It's hard enough as it is (assuming you use this platform - which I did, when it was ... simple)... to filter out hate content via text.
Imagine having to filter it out from audio clips?

This is just going to unleash a beast of a problem to solve - pure madness.

Re:

[Zend Optimizer]

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I think I have seen this before.

[Fly Swatter]

I can open some app that came by default on my small handheld computer, enter a series of numbers, then speak directly with the recipient, they can even reply in real time. If they aren't there, I can DM them by leaving a message via voice.

It's on the tip of my tongue but can't recall, can anyone remember the name of the app?