The owner of TwitterElon Musk, announced this Tuesday that audio and video calls will soon be able to be made on the platform.
“Soon it will be possible to carry out audio and video chats from your account to (that of) any (user) on the platform,” he said in a tweet.
“So you can talk to people anywhere in the world without giving out your phone number.”
With latest version of app, you can DM reply to any message in the thread (not just most recent) and use any emoji reaction.
Release of encrypted DMs V1.0 should happen tomorrow. This will grow in sophistication rapidly. The acid test is that I could not see your DMs even if…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
May 9, 2023
In a later comment posted on TwitterMusk maintained that the courier service WhatsAppoperated by Meta, “is not reliable”.
A messaging function in Twitter could compete with the series of free services offered by, among others, Messenger, Signal, Telegram or WhatsApp.
Musk He added that starting Wednesday, Twitter will begin encrypting direct messages on the platform to safeguard privacy.
Since you acquired Twitter for 44,000 million dollars last year, Musk has implemented a whole series of changes in an apparently chaotic way, which has sometimes caused the furor of users.
The South African tycoon has publicly talked about building a multi-purpose “X” app, combining messaging, payments and more.
Musk recently made the social network part of a partnership called “X,” ditching the company name. Twitterwhich it continues to use on the platform, however.
