Michael TsaiVerified account

I propose that Twitter would be better if DMs were removed all together. More trouble than they're worth.

@danielpunkass I'm with @djlemur. I often use it to stealthily point out errors and typos w/o having to publicly embarrass people.

@uliwitness @djlemur I use them all the time, too. But they have fiddly usability behaviors that are nonetheless difficult to contend with.

@danielpunkass Well, you have to be followed by someone to send them a DM, yeah, but is there anything else fiddly about them? Not that bad.

@uliwitness And a side-effect of that change is that you can no longer include URLs in them.

@danielpunkass How does that follow as a side effect?

@mjtsai I.e. banning URLs is a short-sighted attempt to limit attractiveness to spammers. Or so it has been speculated.