Today I learned about the secret cache of Twitter DMs hidden behind privacy settings.for some people, which means discovering a ton of important emails they miss, but if you’re like me, discovering a “hidden” inbox isn’t all that exciting. In either case, it’s still worth checking to see if you have any messages that Twitter is blocking you from viewing.
As you may already know, Twitter offers some privacy settings for DMs. To adjust them, tap the DM icon on Twitter, then select the settings gear in the upper-right corner of the screen. However, you first need to enable a few settings in order to create a secret inbox.
First, you need to check the “Allow message requests from anyone” option. Otherwise, you won’t receive any spam (or what Twitter thinks is spam), which is kept in a separate DM folder.
You’ll see your secret inbox with the “Filter low-quality mail” option checked.Screenshot via twitter
Next, if you haven’t already, see if you’ve disabled the “Filter low-quality messages” option. You may have unchecked this setting a long time ago without realizing it. If you have, congratulations! You’ve been using a “secret” inbox.But if you haven’t already, so be it – I’ve found the easiest way to read any messages you miss is to leave this box an examination. When you navigate back to your message requests folder, scroll all the way to the bottom and click the “Show” button to view additional messages, some of which may have been filtered by Twitter as offensive.
Here, you’ll see all the messages Twitter has been hiding from you. Once you’ve combed through them, feel free to uncheck the “Filter low-quality messages” box in the settings so that these messages can be merged with the regular message requests folder. Or, if you like the idea of a “secret” inbox, check it out.
I can’t say my inbox is full of life-changing messages or that a bunch of friends are trying to get in touch with me…only a DM alerted me to a glaring typo in one of my previous posts, which obviously Would have been more helpful if I had seen it sooner (thanks to Twitter).