KOLKATA: Twitter is where people go to discover, follow and have conversations that matter to them. To make it easier for people to have these conversations, Twitter is testing voice messages in direct messages (DMs) in India. The experiment will be rolled out in phases to Indian audiences, making India one of three countries to have access to the feature alongside Brazil and Japan.
“India is a priority market for Twitter and that is why we’re constantly testing new features and learning from people’s experience on the service here. We’re excited to bring the voice messages in DMs experiment to the country and give people a new way to express themselves and help them connect through the nuances, emotion, and empathy built by hearing someone’s voice,” Twitter India managing director Manish Maheshwari said.
Each voice message can be upto 140 seconds long and can help people chat quickly – whether on the move or when there’s just too much to type. There’s a lot that can be left unsaid or uninterpreted using text, so with voice messages, Twitter wants to create a more human experience for listeners and storytellers alike.
Twitter direct messages product manager Alex Ackerman-Greenberg said, “We are dedicated to giving people more options to express themselves in conversations on Twitter — both publicly and privately. We hope letting people record and send voice messages as DMs will enhance their conversational experience by adding convenience and expression.”
Sending a voice DM is pretty straightforward. You can open an existing conversation in your DMs on Twitter or start a new one. Tap the voice recording icon once to start recording your message and tap it a second time to end. You can also listen to your message before sending it across. iOS users also have the option to press-and-hold the voice recording icon to start recording a message and swipe up and release the icon to send it immediately after they are done talking.
Anyone will have the ability to listen to these messages wherever and however they use Twitter, but the ability to record voice messages over DM will be available for people on Twitter for iOS and Android in India, Japan and Brazil.
