The Micro blogging giant has surprised its users adding an all new feature. The website has a quite a lot of competition from the competitors like Facebook, Snapchat who keeps themselves always updated and provides users with a lot many features. So Twitter also seems to trying to attract lot more customers by adding some more attractive features.
Twitter users can send direct messages to anyone on Twitter. It’s is just like sending messages. And yesterday it added the read receipt feature.
Yes this feature may be quite annoying for some and very useful and needy for some, depending on the person.
In a move to making the direct messages as a full fledged messenger Twitter has introduced this feature. This read receipt feature will allow the users to see whether the message they sent has been delivered to the other person or not and even know whether they read it or not.
It is even going to add typing indicators and rich link previews soon.
There is something good about this feature from the blogging giant as the users will have the option to enable or disable the feature as if they want.
Here are steps that one needs to follow to either enable or disable the read receipt feature
- Click on the Profile icon and then go to Settings.
- Now click on Security and Privacy here
- Now under the Privacy settings, you have the Send/Receive Read Receipts option, check it to enable it and remove the check to disable the feature.
If you disable this feature, you will not be able to see other people’s read receipts. So all the Twitter users can now on enable or disable this feature in direct messages as they want.