The atty for #Twitter told Judge Howell that the company had found both “deleted” & “nondeleted” #DMs associated w/Trump’s account.…
The court papers unsealed on Tues revealed that #JackSmith’s prosecutors sought “all content, records & other information” related to Trump’s Twitter acct from Oct 2020 to Jan 2021, including all tweets “created, drafted, favorited/liked or retweeted” by the acct & all #DirectMessages sent from, received by or stored in draft form by the acct.
#Criminal #Conspiracy

The federal prosecutors who charged #Trump this month w/conspiring to overturn the 2020 election got access this winter to a trove of so-called #DirectMessages that Trump sent others privately through his #Twitter account, acc/to court papers unsealed on Tues.

#DMs #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith #Jan6 #SearchWarrant
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/us/politics/trump-twitter-direct-messages-warrant.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Has the admins being able to read DMs been rectified yet? #directmessages #dms

Helft mir mal bitte. Sehe ich das richtig dass ich Direktnachrichten nur über den Browser und nur an Leute in meiner Instanz schicken kann? Wenn ich wem anders was schicken will, soll ich mich in seiner Instanz anmelden und das geht ja nicht
#directmessages
#hilfegesuch

Want to Delete Your Twitter DMs? Good Luck With That
People in Europe are making GDPR requests to have their private messages erased, but Elon’s team is ignoring them.

#GDPR #Twitter #ElonMusk #DirectMessages #Privacy
https://www.wired.com/story/delete-twitter-dms-gdpr/

3/3 To navigate:

#Home = ppl and tags you follow.
#Local = your instance's chronological feed
#Federated = the firehose! chronological feed of the whole damn 'verse (Mastodon, that is)

#DirectMessages are NOT #private . They show up in your Home feed, and look just like Mentions. It's very easy to (accidentally) reply publicly, to a DM that is visible only to you.

There is no algorithm. #Verified here is not the same as #Verified on #Birdsite You have at least 500 chars per post.

#Welcome!

DIRECT MESSAGING

DMs on Mastodon work differently than on other platforms.

Graham Cluley, a well-respected British security blogger with a sharp sense of humor (and host of the Smashing Security podcast) has this to say:

“Imagine you are having a direct message conversation with someone on Mastodon about a sensitive subject.

Maybe George and Paul are bantering via direct message on Mastodon, and one of them says “I’ll tell you who’s a twit. That bloody @Ringo”

Well, because @Ringo has been mentioned in the chat, he now sees a copy of the message too. Ouch, that’s awkward.

This would be particularly dangerous if you were communicating with another Mastodon user to report abusive behaviour. Suddenly your abuser knows you are complaining about them.

Email doesn’t work like that. Twitter direct messages don’t work like that.

(Sorry Ringo for using your name in this example, Peace and Love man!)”

https://grahamcluley.com/mastodon-what-you-need-to-know-for-your-security-and-privacy/

Marcus Hutchins pointed out -- in his excellent overview “A Twitter User's Guide to Mastodon”:

“Something to also be wary of is similar to how Twitter staff can read your DMs, so can Mastodon instance staff. If you send a DM to someone on another instance, both the staff on the sending and receiving instance could read your message if they wanted to. Just like on any social media platform, I do not advise using DMs to share sensitive information. Use DMs for normal discussions, or exchanging contacts. Any sensitive information should be sent via an End-to-end encrypted messaging app like Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, or Wire.”

https://escapingtech.com/tech/guides/a-twitter-users-guide-to-mastodon.html

@gcluley
#SmashingSecurity
#GrahamCluley
@malwaretech
#MarcusHutchins
#DirectMessages
#DMs

Want to delete your Twitter DMs? Good luck with that - Enlarge (credit: Aytac Unal/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Twitt... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1916454 #elonmusktwitter #directmessages #syndication #twitter #biz⁢ #gdpr

Ars Technica: Want to delete your Twitter DMs? Good luck with that https://arstechnica.com/?p=1916454 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #elonmusktwitter #directmessages #syndication #Twitter #Biz&IT #gdpr

Did you know that direct messages on here show up on the web client with a lighter background iF you use the dark theme? 🤔 #mastodon #DirectMessages #UIUXdesign

Hey Fediverse, I've seen a lot of people make references to DMs here , as in "DM me to talk about this topic ."
I assume that means direct message. But I don't see any sort of capability to do that anywhere! I can start a message by @'ing someone and they see it and reply usually, but it's just a normal toot.
So, what's wrong with me? What am I missing? Is it just my instance that lacks direct private messages?
#help #newb #noob #mastodonhelp #directmessage #directmessages #directmessaging

#DirectMessages are weird on #Mastodon. Looking at an individual direct message itself gives no indication it's a #DM. They look like regular replies under Posts on my account and even appear in my Home timeline along with everyone else's posts. Using DMs here produces a certain amount of anxiety that the message is actually going out to the entire world.

Am I missing something? Can DMs be distinguished visually somehow, if not siloed into their own non-post timeline?

@Gargron

3/3 To navigate:

#Home = ppl and tags you follow.
#Local = your instance's chronological feed
#Federated = the firehose! chronological feed of the whole damn 'verse (Mastodon, that is)

#DirectMessages are NOT #private . They show up in your Home feed, and look just like Mentions. It's very easy to (accidentally) reply publicly, to a DM that is visible only to you.

There is no algorithm. #Verified here is not the same as #Verified on #Birdsite You have at least 500 char/post.

#Welcome!

One of the #ux issues I'm having with #mastodon is the rather clumsy way it handles #directmessages. It's not particularly intuitive to send one and it can be difficult to recognise one when it appears in my timeline.

I don't think it would take much of a redesign to make it more usable, the core functionality all seems pretty good as is.

That was an incredibly tight race! #Mastodon #MastodonPoll #DirectMessages

Do you like the way direct messages are handled on Mastodon right now? Boost for better sample size! #Mastodon #MastodonDev #DirectMessages #DMs #privacy cc @Gargron

Oh! DMs do exist!

How to Send Direct Messages on Mastodon
https://gizmodo.com/mastodon-how-to-dm-send-messages-twitter-1849759852

#dm #dms #directmessage #directmessages

Is there an ironclad way to distinguish between replies and direct messages here? My wife and I like to share stuff frequently, but we don’t necessarily want all of that to be publicly visible. Also, our accounts are on different instances.
#Mastodon #DirectMessages #TechSupport

@b_fung pretty shure he will - after all, #ElonMusk sells #BulkAccess to #Twitter's #backend including #DirectMessages to #facists.

He himself is a white facist as proven.

Any questions??

#Askingforafriend
Hoe schrijf ik een DM?
How do I write a Direct Message to someone on here? How does this work?
#DirectMessages