The feature previously required a paid Twitter Blue membership.
You may be used to pinning text conversations on your phone, and now you can do the same with Twitter chats. Without a Blue subscription, Twitter’s DM conversation pinning is now available to everyone on Android, iOS, and the web. On mobile, all you have to do is slide a favorite conversation to the right and tap the button to float it to the top of your inbox. This method allows you to pin up to six threads at once.
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The expansion comes just a few months after Blue users received DM conversation pins in November 2021. It’s not like it’s a surprise, though. Twitter announced that it would use Blue to give users early access to new features, with DM pinning being one of them.
This broader release mainly gives a rough sense of how long it might take for Blue-first features to reach a general audience. While the timing is likely to vary based on the feature, the wait for this DM upgrade might just line up with what you’d expect. The months-long interval may have helped Blue members justify their $3 monthly outlay, but it wasn’t extreme.
