YouTube Expands Direct Messaging To The US

The experimental feature launched in Europe last year.

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YouTube's experimental direct messaging feature for mobile is now available in the US. The Google-owned video-sharing platform started testing DMs late last year in Ireland and Poland, before expanding it to more European countries in March. Now, you can also give it a try if you're 18 and older in the US. This isn't the first time YouTube has introduced a direct messaging feature. It launched one in 2017 and then killed it two years later in 2019 to encourage more public conversations in the comments section.

In its announcement when it launched its renewed effort to bring DMs to its platform, YouTube said that it has been a top feature request. This rollout builds on the positive feedback it's gotten from the the countries where it has been live for the past few months. To use the feature,...

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