--- description: In the coming weeks, you may begin to see real-time notifications while you’re using Twitter. title: Twitter to Add Chat-like Popup Notifications image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa77fdf1b701ac71/69868a39169ab0cb09278c25/twitter-notifications.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Hooray? Twitter to Add Chat-like Popup Notifications by [Doug Aamoth](/author/doug-aamoth/) ## Doug Aamoth Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 11, 2014 2:10 PM CUT  Twitter by [Doug Aamoth](/author/doug-aamoth/) ## Doug Aamoth Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 11, 2014 2:10 PM CUT In the coming weeks, you may begin to see real-time notifications while you’re using Twitter. As you can see in Twitter’s example graphic here, Christina is DM-ing Ducker: “Hey Ducker!” Ducker gets to watch – either in horror or sheer glee – as this pops up in real time, distracting his attention from the very important things that are happening on Twitter at that exact moment. According to [Twitter’s blog post](https://blog.twitter.com/2014/stay-connected-with-notifications-on-twittercom "undefined") announcing the feature: --- > “” --- You’ll be able to turn this off on a granular level under in the Web Notifications menu under [Settings](https://twitter.com/settings/ "undefined"), but note that the Web Notifications menu won’t be present until this feature rolls out for you. You may have to be on high alert for weeks — _weeks_! Once the feature is live for you, you can opt to be notified when your tweets are retweeted, your tweets are marked as favorites, you’re mentioned in a tweet, you get a new follower or you’re sent a direct message. Leave some of them on, all of them on or turn all of them off. It’s up to you, Ducker. [Stay connected with notifications on twitter.com](https://blog.twitter.com/2014/stay-connected-with-notifications-on-twittercom "undefined") \[Twitter\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/59434/twitter-to-add-chat-like-popup-notifications/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/59434/twitter-to-add-chat-like-popup-notifications/"},"headline":"Hooray? Twitter to Add Chat-like Popup Notifications","datePublished":"2014-04-11T14:10:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:56.897Z","description":"In the coming weeks, you may begin to see real-time notifications while you’re using Twitter.","url":"https://time.com/59434/twitter-to-add-chat-like-popup-notifications/","keywords":["Tech","twitter","Social Networking","social","Web"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa77fdf1b701ac71/69868a39169ab0cb09278c25/twitter-notifications.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Doug Aamoth","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/doug-aamoth/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa77fdf1b701ac71/69868a39169ab0cb09278c25/twitter-notifications.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Twitter Notifications","caption":"Twitter Notifications","creditText":"Twitter","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/59434/twitter-to-add-chat-like-popup-notifications/","name":"Hooray? Twitter to Add Chat-like Popup Notifications"}}]}] ```