Twitter now offers an easier way to share public tweets privately

While Twitter is designed to provide an open forum for your thoughts, occasionally you might want to have one-to-one discussions in private, and that’s where the Direct Message option comes in.

Today, as part of its quest to make DM conversations "richer", Twitter introduces a feature to make it much easier to share public tweets privately with friends and followers.

Twitter users on iOS and Android will soon start to see a new Message button under tweets that you can tap to quickly share that post in a DM.

Twitter says tweets being shared via DMs is becoming increasingly popular:

Every day, millions of people send Direct Messages to communicate privately with friends, family, experts, brands, and anyone else they find interesting on Twitter. In fact, we’ve seen the number of messages sent grow over 60% in 2015. And the number of Tweets shared privately has grown even faster, at 200% in just the second half of last year.

You’ll need to update your app to see the new button.