Twitter is reportedly planning to start testing voice DM which will allow people to record and send voice messages through direct messages.
Alex Ackerman-Greenberg, product manager for direct messages at Twitter, let me know that the company will be testing voice DMs soon. Brazil will be the first country included in that test. He shared the news… through a 20-second voice message. “We know people want more options for how they express themselves in conversations on Twitter — both publicly and privately,” he said.
Similar to voice tweets, voice messages have a bare-bones, simple interface: there’s just a play / pause button, and the sender’s avatar pulsates as the message plays. The product team designed an in-line recording experience to make it easier to send these messages as part of the natural conversation flow, so that’s one difference from the current audio tweets interface.
There’s a report message option in the event that someone misuses voice DMs, which is always a fair concern with private audio.
Davis said: “Now, we have a full-time accessibility team within product development, and that includes engineering and design. We also changed our product development process, so that accessibility is always considered during even the conceptualization of features.”
“Hopefully that new development flow is in place as Twitter continues the development of voice messaging.”
