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The Path to Messaging Proceeds

Threads Arrive to Messenger

Nearly three weeks after Facebook CEO published a 3,200-word blog post describing the company's slow, strategic pivot to "private, encrypted services" like messaging -- it began rolling out threaded messages on Messenger.

With this new feature, which is slated to launch for Messenger's 1.3 billion users worldwide -- conversation participants can directly reply to a specific message by pressing down on the next, tapping a "Reply" icon, and respond accordingly. 

The new threaded replies feature ideally works best in a group chat, where users can reply directly to one participant's individual message without involving the entire group, and without having to create a separate conversation.

The new feature arrives about a month after Messenger began allowing users to unsend messages on the platform. Read full story >>

Telegram Makes Moves Toward Private Messaging

Telegram, which describes itself as "a cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on security and speed," has taken a cue from the recent public dialogue around private messaging -- by introducing "anonymous forwarding."

With this new feature, users can forward any message they've previously sent, and it can't be traced back to their accounts. Instead, the message will just display for the forward recipient with "an unclickable name in the 'from' field," the company says in an official blog post. "This way, people you chat with will have no verifiable proof you ever sent them anything."