Twitter says it will begin testing audio DMs soon, after introducing support for audio in tweets, starting in Brazil
Shout into my DMs — After rolling out audio tweets for iOS in June, Twitter is now experimenting with the idea of letting people record and send voice messages through direct messages.
Twitter users in Brazil become the first test group for recorded voice messages inside DMs, on iOS first — the same device-and-market sequencing used for the June audio tweets launch.
Second-order effects
If the test follows the audio-tweets path, expect rapid expansion to more iOS markets plus a transcription feature, since Twitter had already committed to captions as the accessibility companion for voice content.
Third-order effects
Twitter keeps converging public broadcasting and private messaging around the same rich-media primitives — audio now spans tweets and DMs the way video has since 2016 — pointing toward a product where format parity between timelines and inboxes is the default.
The trend: Twitter is rolling expressive media formats — audio, like video before it — outward from public tweets into private DMs, using single-country iOS tests as the staging mechanism.
Does anyone actually listen to their voicemails / want to talk via phone to anyone but their immediate family and closest friends? https://twitter.com/...
What I've always thought was missing from the random extremist death threat DMs was a voice. Can't wait to hear them pronounce seamus. https://www.theverge.com/...
great now all the dudes who send me rude DMs will be able to actually yell them at me instead of using all caps to tell me how my nose & boobs get in the way of me knowing anything about sports https://twitter.com/...