New function to revolutionize Twitter: This is what fans have been waiting for | life & knowledge

2023-05-10 14:51:00

Twitter has long wanted to be more than just a short message service with 140 characters.

Since the takeover of Twitter Elon Musk (51) the most powerful tech giant in the world – and is changing a lot. Now for the next change: Musk has announced that Twitter will soon be getting a voice and video calling feature.

“Then you can talk to people anywhere in the world without having to give them your phone number,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. He also announced that private direct messages on Twitter would be encrypted as early as Wednesday.

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In terms of its functions, Twitter is thus approaching services such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, all of which belong to the meta group. It also showed that Musk now wants to compete more with Meta another post in which he vilified WhatsApp as “untrustworthy”.

Twitter should become an all-round app

Since his $44 billion Twitter acquisition last year, he has announced and introduced numerous changes and new features. Among other things, the multi-billionaire exchanged existing verifications with the payment model “Twitter Blue” (9.52 euros per month) for blue ticks.

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Musk recently merged Twitter into a new company called X. A kind of all-round app with various functions from messaging to payment services is to be created under this banner.