JAKARTA At the end of 2024, Meta revealed its plan to add a Direct Messenger (DM) feature to the Threads application. Now, the feature is already available in the form of a trial.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the feature began to be tested on Threads on June 10, 2025. With this feature, users no longer need to use third-party applications just to exchange messages or chat.
For now, the DM Threads feature is only available in a few locations. Meta is testing the feature in Hong Kong, Thailand, and Argentina. Zuckerberg said that this feature would be smoothed out in other locations, but it is still kept secret for now.
Although the DM feature has started to be added in Threads, the function of this feature is still limited. Users can only have private chats or one on one. There is no option to add group chat messages yet.
The ability to create group chats may be added in the future. At least, this feature begins to separate functions between Threads and Instagram.
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Since its inception, Threads has only been running as a microblog that is integrated with Instagram. To use the application, users must first have an Instagram account.
This happened because Threads was designed as an Instagram feature at first. As stated by Instagram Head Adam Mosseri some time ago, the Instagram internal team decided to release Threads as an independent app.
Therefore, since it was first released, there are many features that are lacking in Threads. Instagram also had time to argue about adding DM to the Threads application. The reason is, this feature will separate functions from Instagram and Threads.
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