Twitter today revealed a new feature that allows people to send individual tweets to others through direct messages.
The feature is being added to both the Android and iOS applications, as well as to Twitter.com.
Before now, the only way to share tweets privately was via email or other methods outside of Twitter. Twitter hopes the sharing tool will prevent people from leaving Twitter for other apps. Twitter recently made it possible to send URLs through its direct message tool, as well. It had initially turned off this feature to protect against spam.
Twitter also opened its archives for anyone to search. All public tweets stretching back to 2006 can now be discovered.
