Twitter makes it possible to send URLs in private messages again

Twitter has restored the ability to send all URLs via direct messages. The social networking site had largely disabled this feature due to spam issues. This seems to have been resolved now.

Until recently, Twitter had made it largely impossible for users to send direct messages, private messages that didn’t appear on a user’s timeline, that contained URLs. Only trusted URLs, especially from major US websites such as Facebook, were allowed.

The help section of the Twitter site stated that the social networking service was in the process of making changes to its “back-end and infrastructure.” According to TheNextWeb, an intervention by Twitter was necessary to prevent spamming via the DM function.

Twitter has now resumed the ability to send DM messages with a link. With that, the social networking service seems to have solved the spam problem. It is not entirely clear which interventions Twitter has implemented in its software platform, but presumably the control mechanism for scanning for suspicious URLs has been improved.

Twitter is also introducing a new option this week: it will be possible for users to forward public tweets in a DM message. As a result, the possibilities surrounding direct messaging are slowly being expanded on the Twitter platform.