2023-05-10 11:15:49
Elon Musk is determined to convert Twitter in a more interesting and complete social network. The owner and executive director has announced the upcoming arrival of a good handful of features to the application that will bring the tool closer to WhatsApp-style messaging platforms. Among these are the audio and video calls and the end-to-end encryption in messages.
“Soon it will be possible to carry out audio and video chats from your account to (that of) any (user) on the platform,” said the tycoon in a tweet published on his personal account, it is that, for some time now, it has become the main source of information about the news that Twitter is working on.
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
According to Musk, thanks to this functionality, you will be able to “talk to people anywhere in the world without giving out your phone number.” The calls will be possible, therefore, using as the only information the own account that the user has in the red social.
The executive, for the moment, has not shared the approximate date on which voice and audio calls will be available. However, he has announced that, starting today, Wednesday, all users who have the latest version of the application installed on their ‘smartphones’ will be able to send messages that will be encrypted in such a way that the company will not have the ability to access the information.
“I will not be able to see your direct messages even if they point a gun at my head,” Musk has settled regarding the security of the new encryption, which has been present in competing applications for years, such as WhatsApp or the Messenger messaging service, both owned by of Goal. Two tools that have a significant user base. Especially in the case of WhatsApp, which has long since exceeded 2,000 million monthly Internet users. Musk’s ‘app’, meanwhile, has around 300 million people connected each month.
With the arrival of these features, Twitter continues to add tools with which to attract the attention of users. Months ago, Musk already said that he wanted to turn the bird’s app into a ‘super app’, a platform where the user can do practically anything, in the Chinese style. WeChat. Watch videos, listen to podcasts, or even send money PayPal-style.
This last functionality could be announced in the coming months, since, according to the ‘Financial Times’, Twitter is working to start operating in this way in US territory as of 2024.
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