Last week, the President of HTC America, Jason Mackenzie, took to Twitter to announce that the much-anticipated Android 4.3 update for the T-Mobile U.S. branded HTC One would roll out by the “middle” of last week. But unfortunately for T-Mo customers that did not happen as planned. For an unspecified reason, the update has been unexpectedly delayed until today, Monday, October 21, when it is expected to roll out sometime before this afternoon.

Twitter hopes to compete with instant messaging services like WhatsApp and Line with a new app that’s dedicated to direct messaging, AllThingsD reports. The company hopes the move will bring “the long-buried feature to the forefront” and place a new emphasis on its private messaging capabilities.

The President of HTC America, Jason Mackenzie, has taken to Twitter yet again, this time to announced that the company has just received certification for the longly-awaited Android 4.3 update for T-Mobile carrier-branded One handsets in the U.S. The anticipated over-the-air (OTA) upgrade will be rolled out to all devices within the “next few days.”

Twitter has today introduced the ability for users to receive direct messages from people they choose not to follow. Until now, users had to be following each other to communicate privately, but the new option lets you receive DMs from anyone who follows you.

Still waiting for BBM to come to Android and iOS? Aren’t we all.

It’s been almost four weeks since BlackBerry attempted and then stalled its cross-platform BBM rollout, and the Canadian company has remained pretty quiet about its plans ever since. But according to chief marketing officer Frank Boulben, we could see BBM in the App Store and Google Play before the end of the week.