After the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, bought Twitter, it was revealed that many new features will come to the platform. Twitter Blue subscription, which will make a blue tick for a fee, and the ‘gray tick badge’ given to official accounts were just a few of the innovations. Now it turns out that Musk will bring another feature to the platform.
Jane Manchun Wong, known for her shares about mobile applications, showed that the company plans to make a move on security with a share she made on her Twitter account. Elon Musk kind of confirmed this feature in a response to Wong.
End-to-end encryption is coming to Twitter messages!
Twitter is bringing back end-to-end encrypted DMs
Seeing signs of the feature being worked on in Twitter for Android: https://t.co/YtOPHH3ntD pic.twitter.com/5VODYt3ChK
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) November 16, 2022
According to Wong’s post, Twitter will bring end-to-end encryption to messages. End-to-end encryption, which we see in popular messaging applications such as WhatsApp and Signal, is a security system. Encrypted messages are only visible to users. In other words, no third party, including the application itself, can access the messages.
Elon Musk also gave a response after Wong shared the future of the feature. The famous entrepreneur has kind of confirmed that the feature is under development by sharing a winking emoji. There is no information about when end-to-end encryption will come to Twitter DMs.
It should be noted that Twitter has already put end-to-end encryption on its agenda. The company carried out tests to bring this feature in 2018. However, there was no further development on the subject, and the feature did not come to the platform. Elon Musk, on the other hand, emphasized in a post he made in April before purchasing the social media giant, that Twitter DMs should have end-to-end encryption just like Signal so that no one can see the messages. The news today showed that Musk will fulfill his wish.
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