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Twitter To Launch Dedicated App For Direct Messaging

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Twitter hopes to compete with instant messaging services like WhatsApp and Line with a new app that’s dedicated to direct messaging, AllThingsD reports. The company hopes the move will bring “the long-buried feature to the forefront” and place a new emphasis on its private messaging capabilities. The news comes just days after Twitter introduced the ability for users to accept direct messages from people they do not follow — possibly in preparation for a new, standalone direct messaging app, which is currently being discussed internally, according to three people familiar with the matter. It’s not completely clear how the app may work, or how much focus Twitter will place on it. But it’s thought the company could be looking to take on popular instant messaging services like WhatsApp, Line, and Viber in the same way that Facebook has with its own Facebook Messenger app. One messaging service, KakaoTalk, which has expanded rapidly in recent years, was actually mentioned as a threat to