Meta's Threads is finally letting you slide into DMs. Users can now send each other private messages right on the platform, a feature that has taken nearly two years to arrive. Threads launched in 2023 as a fast follow-up to Elon Musk's chaotic Twitter takeover and copied nearly every feature from its rival except,

Meta announced just a couple weeks ago that it would finally start testing a dedicated inbox for direct messages on Threads. Now, it's making the feature official and rolling out DMs to everyone. As with the earlier test,

At launch, Threads DMs will support one-on-one chats, preset emoji reactions, the ability to report spam, and mute DMs (as on Instagram). Other features, like group messaging, inbox filters, and more advanced message controls,