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Twitter opens up direct messaging again, despite abuse fears

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Twitter regularly experiments with its direct-messaging feature, perhaps because the platform is unsure just how important private chatting is or should be to its efforts. But here we go again: Twitter just turned on a feature that will let anyone send you a message (https://support.twitter.com/articles/14606-about-direct-messages), even if you don’t follow them.</p><figure class="medium right" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" itemid="https://cms-images.idgesg.net/images/article/2015/04/twitter-dm-ios-100580250-medium.jpg">
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