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excuse me, I confused "Private messages" (pm) for "Direct messages" (dm).

I will update above

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I don't think you confused anything, except for the terminology the platform uses. There is an obvious expectation of privacy when sending direct messages!
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Hasn't been true ANYTIME IN HISTORY. Hell it was well understood even by children that no conversation you had on the telephone was truly private. That's why cyphers were invented.
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it stands for "not a public timeline post"
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It should be obvious from how contrived your wording is that nobody thinks of them this way.
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