Twitter has introduced a new feature that enables you to privately share tweets via direct message or what is known as DM. The new feature, which has now gone live, allows you to share a tweet privately with anyone following you on the microblogging platform.

€With today's update you'll be able to share a Tweet privately with any of your followers. To do this from either the iOS or Android mobile apps, long-press the Tweet in your timeline and choose €Share via Direct Message.€ On twitter.com and TweetDeck, tap the €€€€ More€ icon and select €Share via Direct Message.€ The person you share a Tweet with will get a push notification, and the Tweet will display directly in the conversation,€ says Twitter.€

Though, it is not exactly an update that will excite a lot of twitter users, it will nonetheless be a welcome one for some users who engage in a lot of private conversation. It gives users a kind of flexibility in terms of transiting from public content and open discussions to conversations that are more confidential.

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Twitter had in the past introduced a couple of changes to improve its direct message feature, and this is just one of them.

On the desktop web and in the TweetDeck application, the option will be available by tapping the €€¦More€ icon then choosing €Share via Direct Message.€ On mobile, including both the iOS and Android application, a long press on the tweet in a user's timeline will offer the option to €Share via Direct Message,€ as well.

The new option will be available on the desktop web and in the TweetDeck application. To use the new feature, €long-press' the tweet in your timeline and choose €Share via Direct Message both on Twitter.com and TweetDeck.

The changes have already started taken effect virtually on all platforms since Thursday. It is available on both web and mobile as well as on desktop through TweetDeck. However, no mention was made on its availability on TweetDeck for Mac.

To start sharing Tweets via Direct Message today, go to twitter.com, download the Twitter app for iPhone or Android, or check out TweetDeck for web, Chrome and Windows (with Tweetdeck for Mac coming soon).

These days, a lot of apps now offer private messages probably due to an increase in demand for it. People want to have their chats and messages communicated privately; and Twitter sees this as a way to keep users on its platform happy.

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