Memeburn reports that Twitter now let's you receive direct messages (DMs) from people you aren't following; and, in what seems to be an effort to combat spam, the micro blogging site's users can no longer include links in DMs, reports ReadWrite.
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Memeburn: Twitter now lets you receive DMs from people you're not following... The report states that you no longer have to follow someone on Twitter for them to send you a direct message. This option however, is off by default, so you'll have to activate it yourself.
