Among the many product changes to make Twitter a more engaging platform, Elon Musk said: many times His desire to make direct messages better and safer. He wants to give DMs a “superset of Signal” – an encrypted messaging app.
Over the weekend, Musk said the end-to-end encrypted DM feature will roll out this month. In addition to that, users can also reply to individual messages and use reaction emojis. We aim to do that,” he writes Musk. Currently, a user can only choose from 7 emojis as his reaction.
End-to-end encryption protection ensures that no one, including Twitter, can read your chats (except message recipients). Several other apps and messaging protocols like WhatsApp, Signal and iMessage already use this kind of encryption. Currently, Twitter employees may be able to read the content of her messages Direct on the platform. It’s unclear at this time if encryption will be available for both individual and group chats. Similarly, it’s unclear if end-to-end encryption will be enabled by default or will be an opt-in feature.
Encrypted DM is not a completely new project. Twitter started working on it in 2018, but later abandoned it. Last year, app researcher Jane Manchun Wong discovered New code suggesting the social network has resumed work on features under new management.
Twitter designer Andrea Conway also showed off the concept in February. This means that DMs will see a banner at the top of their conversations indicating that they are protected by end-to-end encryption.
Other new features are just some of Twitter’s attempts to achieve parity with chat apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. The Meta-owned app expanded its emoji reactions feature last year, and Telegram pushed custom his reactions behind a paywall.
