{"id":36593,"date":"2025-09-01T13:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/36593\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:57:09","slug":"instagram-and-tiktok-upgrade-their-direct-messaging-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/36593\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram and TikTok upgrade their direct-messaging features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2025 appears to be the year when big tech platforms slide into people\u2019s DMs\u2026 with news about how those direct messages are evolving. Hot on the heels of Spotify bringing messaging back to its app, Instagram and TikTok have made some DM announcements. <\/p>\n<p>Instagram is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DN8eCTQEXDE\/?img_index=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">launching some new tools<\/a>\u00a0to help creators and businesses with bigger audiences manage their inboxes. Multi-select filters, custom shortcuts and the ability to create new inbox folders are aimed at decluttering the incoming flood of messages for those accounts. <\/p>\n<p>As for TikTok, it\u2019s update is focused on regular users, who will now be able to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/29\/tiktok-now-lets-users-send-voice-notes-and-images-in-dms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">send voice notes and up to nine photos or videos<\/a>\u00a0in their messages within its app. That\u2019s another move into WhatsApp, Snapchat and Instagram territory for TikTok, which wants to be seen as a communications platform as much as a video app. The news follows its launch of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.tiktok.com\/en-us\/new-tools-for-creators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a dedicated \u2018Creator Inbox\u2019 feature and \u2018Creator Chat Rooms\u2019<\/a>\u00a0in July.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025 appears to be the year when big tech platforms slide into people\u2019s DMs\u2026 with news about how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,19,876,17,28426,82,1150],"class_list":{"0":"post-36593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-instagram","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music-marketing","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-tiktok"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}