Lauren Orsini says, “Twitter direct messages just got more talkative. Now you can have a private conversation with a group, the social network announced Tuesday.

Until now, Twitter’s direct messaging feature has been reserved for conversations between no more than two participants. Now, you can create groups of up to 20 Twitter users at the same time, and they do not have to be following one another to join. Group direct messages will support “text, photos, links, emoji and Tweets,” according to Twitter.

The feature is expected to roll out over the next couple of days to all users.

As Twitter has gotten noisier—and while messaging competitors like Snapchat and WhatsApp grew more significant—users have demanded improvements to its lightweight direct messaging feature”.

Group Direct Messaging Is Just Twitter’s Latest Flip-Flop

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