- Twitter adds encrypted direct messages and new features like voice and video chats and new emojis to react to conversations.
- Elon Musk announced these changes and also revealed that the latest version of the app allows you to reply to any message in the DM’s inbox.
- In addition, the platform will add a new function to talk with people from all over the world without the need to give them the phone numbers.
Twitter prepares to launch encrypted direct messages (DMs).
This novelty will not be the only one on the platform led by Elon Musk, other features will also be added, such as voice and video chats and new emojis to react to conversations.
The changes, which will be incorporated into the free version of Twitter, were announced by Musk in a publication in the early morning of this Wednesday, May 10.
The novelty of message encryption, Strictly speaking, it had been anticipated by engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong, who in November 2022 said that the company bought by Musk was planning to add encrypted messaging, a format that has already been applied by Mark Zuckerberg’s networks, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. .
Regarding encrypted messages, it must be remembered that it means that only the sender and the receiver can see a message. In theory, Twitter and Musk couldn’t see or intercept DMs between people.
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
Twitter Changes: What’s New
On the other hand, the CEO of Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX said that with the latest version of the application (V1.0) you can now reply to any message and not just the last one received in the DM inbox.
This, according to Twitter Support, it will make “the conversation more fluid and intuitive”.
In parallel, Twitter Support said the app added a new emoji picker to DMs. In this way, the user of the network will be able to react to these messages “with a wider variety of emoji”.
When he explained about voice and video chats, Musk said that those with Twitter accounts will be able to “talk to people anywhere in the world without having to give them their phone numbers.”
In February 2023, Musk said that Twitter was adding a feature to share ad revenue with the creators of the platform. This, so far, has not materialized.
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