Regarding the recent announcement about legacy DM commands

RajiitGct · 2017-05-08T09:31:43.375Z

Retiring legacy DM commands on the standard Tweet API Announcements

Twitter began life as an SMS-based service, and back in 2006 when the REST API was initially conceived, many of the original SMS commands were provided through the API, for ease of development. Specifically, if the text of a Tweet status update starts with the characters D, M, or DM, followed by a user’s screen name, a Direct Message will be sent to the named user (assuming this is possible, based on account settings and follow relationship). Alternate leading characters are used, depending o…

This effect applies to twitter webapp also?

andypiper · 2017-05-08T12:50:03.157Z

This announcement is strictly related to the API behaviours. I’d expect that this will change in the Twitter apps and website over time, but we have no specific timing to announce on that right now. This has no effect on the behaviour of Twitter interactions via SMS.

RajiitGct · 2017-05-08T13:13:54.875Z

Thanks for this information