[edgyquant]

These are two words for the same concept.

[runjake]

Not at all. One is private, one is direct and not private.

[hiatus]

Twitter has DMs. Are they not private?

[teakie]

to most people YES, it pretty hard to grap DMs from twitters server. Especially compared to reading them in plaintext like on mastodon. you thing meta is not good but it's still e2ee so your better of writing there.