Today you learned about the Twitter DM’s “secret” inbox – here’s how to see it

Today I learned that there is a secret cache of Twitter direct messages hidden behind the privacy settings. to some people, that means revealing a bunch of important messages they’ve missed, but if you’re like me, discovering a “hidden” inbox wasn’t very exciting. Either way, it’s still worth checking to see if you have any messages that Twitter has prevented you from viewing.

As you already know, Twitter has some privacy settings for direct messages. To set it up, tap on the Twitter DM icon and select the settings gear in the top-right corner of the screen. However, there are two settings that I needed to enable to create a secret mailbox in the first place.

First, you need to select the “Allow message requests from anyone” option. Otherwise, you won’t be able to receive any spam (or what Twitter thinks is spam) that are stored in a separate DM folder.

Then, if you haven’t already, check if you have disabled the Low Quality Message Filter option. You may have unchecked this setting long ago without realizing it. If you have, congratulations! You’ve been using your “secret” inbox all the time. But if you don’t, leave it that way – I found the easiest way to read any messages you missed was to leave this box Verification. When you’re back in the Message Requests folder, scroll all the way to the bottom and click the Show button to view additional messages, which may have been filtered from Twitter for being abusive.

Here, you will see all the messages that Twitter is hiding from you. Once you’ve combed it through, feel free to uncheck the “Filter low quality messages” box in your settings so you can combine these messages with your regular message requests folder. Or, if you like the idea of ​​a “secret” inbox, leave it checked.

I can’t say I have an inbox full of life-changing messages or a group of friends trying to contact me…just one direct message alerting me to a blatant misspelling in one of my previous articles, which I’ve obviously been more helpful if I’ve seen earlier (thanks, Twitter).