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"Last month, Twitter quietly rolled out a new feature to\u00A0give users the choice to receive private messages from any of their followers, but that option has now been removed.\r\n\r\nA checkbox to opt in to the feature was previously found under the account settings, but it is no longer there.\u00A0This means Twitter\u00A0users are back to being unable to send a direct message to someone in their follower list if their chosen recipient isn\u2019t following them back.\r\n\r\nIn response to this, Twitter seems to be emphasizing that it is constantly releasing experiments -- and this feature is just one of them.\r\nI asked Twitter why the &amp;quot;accept DMs from anyone&amp;quot; feature is gone, and all I got was a link to this post: https://t.co/HMfDnHiEn6\r\n\r\n\u2014 Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) November 18, 2013\r\nPointing the press to this very post is Twitter's standard response to questions about features that appear or disappear on the service.\r\n\r\nIn any case, the fact that Twitter actually zoomed in to focus on direct messages -- one of its oldest features -- suggests that rumors about the company\u00A0considering developing a standalone mobile app for its DM service may have had some ground after all.\r\n\r\nRead: TwitsApp: The case for a standalone Twitter Direct Message app\r\n\r\nHeadline image via Andrew Burton/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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