Elon Musk says Twitter will soon allow users to reply to individual DMs, tweet up to 10,000 characters

Twitter chief Elon Musk on Sunday informed that the microblogging platform was working on an update to bring out a bunch of new features. The billionaire said that the company is working on a new update that will allow users to respond to individual direct messages (DM), use any reaction emoji and encryption on the platform later this month.

"Aiming to roll out ability to reply to individual DMs, use any reaction emoji & encryption later this month," Musk tweeted on Sunday.
As soon as Musk shared the news on Twitter, several users expressed their thoughts. "Great updates that will help conversations flow more smoothly. Particularly looking forward to variety of reaction emoji's... it's the little things," a user commented.


"Excellent. Chat encryption is especially a must-have," another user said.

Musk also revealed that soon Twitter will extend longform tweets to 10,000 characters. The 51-year-old was replying to a YouTuber who had reached out to Musk asking about adding code blocks to tweets.

"The dev community and I were wondering if you could add code blocks to tweets?" asked YouTuberA@ThePrimeagen, who posts videos related to coding.

Musk replied: "As an attachment? How many chars? We are extending longform tweets to 10k soon."

In February, the SpaceX chief had said that the micro-blogging platform will provide users with the ability to adjust the algorithm to their "closer match" in the "coming months".

Meanwhile, the micro-blogging platform has announced that the users will get a "heads up" if a Community Note shows on a Tweet they have replied to, liked or retweeted.

The company tweeted from its @CommunityNotes account: "Starting today, you'll get a heads up if a Community Note starts showing on a Tweet you've replied to, Liked or Retweeted. This helps give people extra context that they might otherwise miss."