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The Times of India
The Times of India
World
Sumit Roy

YouTube adds direct messaging feature, expands to 30+ countries in Europe

YouTube has started testing a feature that enables people to send direct messages inside the app. This means that people can now share videos as well as communicate with their friends without exiting the app. The feature has been enabled in over 30 countries across Europe. Previously, people had to share the link of the video with their friends by copying it, which was a time-consuming task. Now, everything is possible within the app, making the task much simpler.

This update shows that YouTube is slowly transforming from just a video-sharing platform into a social media platform that enables people to share as well as communicate with their friends at the same time. This is a good update for people who are creators of videos on the platform. If they find a video that they think is good, they can send it to their friend, which may help the video reach a large audience in a short time. However, the feature is not yet available in countries like India or the United States, and the release date is not known.

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