Twitter adds Direct Message button to embeds bouquet

Twitter hasn’t always made life easy for website users, but it’s latest move is looking to smooth user-to-website owner interaction. This take the form of  Twitter button, making it easier for visitors to send websites’ accounts a Direct Message.

“We are excited to announce a new button that enables people to start a Direct Message right from a website. Direct Messages are the private side of Twitter, and the message button makes it easy to start a private conversation with you,” Twitter’s senior product marketing manager Jeff Lesser announced.

Announcing our new Message button. Now people can easily slide into your DMs from your website. Get yours now! https://t.co/ash9ouvgzu

— TwitterDev (@TwitterDev) August 24, 2016

This new button joins the likes of profile, timeline, likes and collection embeds already used on a majority of websites.

The new Twitter Message button makes it easier for visitors to send websites a direct message

Although there are ways to embed or view Twitter profiles and other Twitter info on a website, this new button cuts out much of the faff for visitors if they simply want to pop the owner — or site’s account — a message. It’s also especially useful for businesses who pivot on customer feedback, care and opinion.

As with most Twitter embeds, users can customise it with prefixed text and language used for the button.

To get the Twitter Message button on your side, head on over to the Twitter Buttons page, and follow the steps.

According to Twitter’s developer community, the button also requires these steps to function correctly:

1. Your username, which can either come in the form of “@username” or “https://twitter.com/username”
2. Your user ID, which is a numerical identified that can be found at https://twitter.com/settings/your_twitter_data9

If you do happen to run into trouble, this Twitter Developers’ thread has additional information.