Twitter is said to be working on new features that will enable users have encrypted chats, voice messages and video chats.
According to a report by the Verge, Elon Musk, has been public about his desire to improve how the social network’s direct messages work.
In a meeting with employees on Tuesday, he spelled out exactly what that looks like.
“We want to enable users to be able to communicate without being concerned about their privacy, or without 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,” Musk said.
“That is obviously not going to be cool and it has happened a few times before.”
Musk said that he also wants Twitter users to have the ability to do voice and video chat via DMs.
He acknowledged that Signal requires sharing of a phone number to start a thread. However, Twitter can facilitate secure calling “so that you don’t have to give someone your phone number.”
Signal has said since 2020 that it also is working to move away from relying on phone numbers, though it has yet to roll out that ability.
