After the privacy crisis in the past days, Twitter will begin to take new measures. Announced today after Elon Musk’s “WhatsApp can’t be trusted” statement, a number of new features will be added to the app soon. In addition, Musk, who made a new decision about private messages, announced that this feature will be activated as of tomorrow.
Twitter will encrypt private messages: Elon Musk won’t be able to see
Twitter, which has had a lot of trouble with privacy since the past months, first admitted that private messages can be accessed with third-party applications. Then the platform faced another bug where only tweets that should have been shown to designated people were publicly accessible. Although quick action was taken in such cases, the trust of the users in terms of privacy was shaken.
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
Today, Elon Musk shared new updates with a tweet after entering the privacy debate with WhatsApp. Thanks to the encryption of private messages, which is the most important of them, even Twitter management and Elon Musk will no longer be able to see your private messages. The feature, which is expected to be available as of tomorrow, indicates that privacy measures have been increased on Twitter.
Also now we will be able to reply and reply to any message in private messages. While we used to be able to reply to messages only with limited emojis, now we can reply using the emoji we want. Additionally, Musk stated that he is working on Twitter’s voice and video calling feature.
The full statement by Elon Musk is as follows:
”With the latest version of the app, you can DM any message in the thread (not just the latest) and use any emoji reaction. Encrypted DMs V1.0 will be released tomorrow and will evolve rapidly. So even with a gun to my head, I won’t be able to see your DMs.
Soon you will be able to voice and video chat with anyone on this platform, so you can talk to people anywhere in the world without giving away your phone number.”
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