Threads users will soon be able to send direct messages to each other without having to leave the platform. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on June 10th that Threads will start testing its own DM system this week, starting in Hong Kong, Thailand, and Argentina, with plans to expand to more locations “soon.”
The experiment will introduce a separate inbox for Threads DMs instead of connecting users to the inbox of their linked Instagram account. This was a possibility given that the two…