Twitter Launches DM Read Receipts by Default: How to Disable Them

Twitter this morning launched new group messaging features for Direct Messages, allowing the service to act more like Facebook Messenger and other group chat apps.

You can now DM multiple people, while read receipts are now enabled by default to show who has viewed the message, indicated by a tick mark. There are also now indicators to show when someone is typing as well.

However, if you don’t use Twitter for group messages, but get the occasional DM, do note read receipts are turned on right now. Sometimes you want privacy, so here’s how to disable read receipts:

1. Go to Twitter.com on the web. Click on your Profile in top right, then go to Settings.

2. Choose Security and Privacy. Scroll to the very bottom and untick “Send/Receive Read Receipts” and click Save changes. That’s it.

You can also choose to disable being added to groups too, if you want.

Anyways, let us know if this works for you and whether or not you like these new group DM features in Twitter.