on 08-05-2015 1:14 PM
Dear Team,
I am trying to send a direct message to one who i am following, but that user is not following me.. i understand i cannot send direct messages since that user is not following me..
But i came to know using @ option we can send direct messages, i have sent it before and it was successful, but now when i am trying to do, nothing works.
May i know anything has been changed?
Thanks
Sriram
See, the way is not called direct message. It is called @mentioned.
If you mentioned a person, then everyone can see that and you can mention a person in reply (in a thread, blogs/document's comment, status update etc.), but direct message is different, direct message can be seen only by you and the person which you are messaging.
You can't use the mention feature in direct message section. If you mention a person then a notification will be appeared in his communication tab and this will be like as below:
But direct message is different, You can only send direct message to that person who is following you and this will appear like as below:
You can mention a person by copy - paste his link from his profile.
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You are mixing two different features. I am talking about reply on a discussion thread of comment on a document/blog. The @ function is used for a search facility here. That feature works if the person is following you. As I already said that, you can't send direct message to that person who is not following you (even using this facility).
The mentioned facility works in reply thread or comment document/blog.
Hi Sriram
i was not aware of this option that btw i like
But when i use @ in the begin i cannot select your name (for example) like the users that you can select are different/less
Last but not least, if i select myself (for example) i receive the common message:
cannot send direct messages to users you're not connected to
You wish me to do different test?
let me know
cheers
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Hi Sriram
you don't know how many times i've tried to use your method
(often it would be useful to send direct messages without waiting for follow and follow back)
but as soon as i type @bha (foolowing what stated) all the names in the list disappear and typing your entire userID make the field empty as soon as i click send
thank you for the tentative
Good luck
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