Elon Musk Wants to Bring Encrypted DMs, Video and Voice Chat to Twitter

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has been fairly open about wanting to enhance the microblogging platform and it looks as if he takes a step in direction of attaining the identical. According to a latest report, Musk spelt out exactly what that appears like in a gathering with workers on Tuesday at Twitter’s San Fransisco headquarters. A recording of the assembly obtained by Platformer suggests Musk advised workers that the corporate would encrypt DMs and work so as to add encrypted video and voice calling between accounts.

“We want to enable users to be able to communicate without being concerned about their privacy, [or] being concerned about a data breach at Twitter causing all of their DMs to hit the web, or think that maybe someone at Twitter could be spying on their DMs. That’s obviously not going to be cool and it has happened a few times before,” Musk mentioned, based on a report by Platformer.

The richest man on the earth additionally went on to say that “we also want to have the ability to do voice and video chat via DMs.”

In 2018, Twitter warned that an undisclosed variety of DMs between companies and their prospects had been accessible by outsiders for over a yr.

Also, earlier this yr, the US authorities charged an ex-employee with improperly accessing consumer information on behalf of Saudi Arabia.

However, it is unclear how DMs have been or weren’t used, as per the report.

Earlier this week, Musk reportedly advised employees in an all-hands assembly that Twitter has ended layoffs and the corporate is now in hiring mode. Meanwhile, Twitter’s new proprietor additionally tweeted that the platform was indefinitely pausing the relaunch of Twitter Blue, its subscription-based verification service. Musk mentioned that the system wouldn’t be relaunched till there was a “high confidence of stopping impersonation”, in a tweet on Monday.