Twitter will give you more information about those profiles that want to talk to you through the use of the platform’s private messages. How? Well, with some slight changes in the interface that will allow you not only to be able to better decide whether or not to accept the request, but also to partly improve the security of the platform. Although it is the issue of end-to-end encryption what is most requested of Twitter DMs.
Twitter and the improvement in private messages
As you should already know, Twitter allows you to choose how you want other users of the social network to contact you through direct messages. That is, if you go to Settings> Privacy and security> Receive messages from anyone, you can enable or not that any user of the platform or only those you are following can send you a direct message.
An interesting option that together with allowing who can or cannot respond to your tweets gives more control over the conversation within the platform, thus being able to avoid possible spam or, worse still, unwanted and annoying messages.
Anyway, in the event that you are one of those who have the possibility that anyone could send you a DM, you will be interested in knowing this. Twitter is going to include more information about the profile that is trying to connect with you via DM. Thus, when someone writes you a direct message for the first time, instead of just seeing the message and the options to accept or block, you will now also have access to additional information about that profile.
When you receive a DM from someone with whom you have never chatted, the first thing you will see will be a small summary about that profile . You will have the name of the profile and the user, the date they joined the platform, the number of followers they have and the number of profiles they follow, as well as the year they joined the platform and saw it if it is available .
With all these data, Twitter wants you to have extra information so that you can better decide whether or not you want to start a conversation. It is true that there are still risks that everything ends badly, but it is a first step that facilitates to a certain extent an action that before would have taken us more extra actions.
So, now that you know, the first thing we advise you is to change or not if you want to have your private messages open for everyone. And from there, keep in mind that these details that seem small can then be something fundamental to improve the experience of using the platform in terms of security.
Of course, in social networks you are not always sure . And do not decide for a theft of passwords or similar, but because with so many users it is easy to end up finding a trolley or hater that only seeks to annoy. So the best thing in those cases is to learn to deal with them, block and forget.