Twitter chief government Elon Musk confirmed plans for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for direct messages on the platform.
The function is a part of Musk’s imaginative and prescient for Twitter 2.0, which is predicted to be what’s known as an “every thing app.” Different functionalities embody longform tweets and funds, in response to a slide deck shared by Musk over the weekend.
The corporate’s plans for encrypted messages first got here to mild in mid-November 2022, when cell researcher Jane Manchun Wong noticed supply code modifications in Twitter’s Android app referencing dialog keys for E2EE chats.
It is value noting that varied different messaging platforms, resembling Sign, Threema, WhatsApp, iMessage, Wire, Tox, and Keybase, already assist encryption for messages.
Google, which already turned on E2EE for one-to-one chats in its RCS-based Messages app for Android, is presently piloting the identical possibility for group chats. Fb, likewise, started enabling E2EE on Messenger for choose customers by default this previous August.
Musk additional touted that new person signups to the social media platform are at an “all-time excessive,” averaging over two million per day within the final seven days as of November 16, up 66% in comparison with the identical week in 2021. Twitter has over 253.8 million monetizable each day energetic customers (mDAU).
The slides additionally reveal that reported impersonations on the service spiked earlier this month, earlier than and within the wake of the launch of its revamped Twitter Blue subscription.
The new subscription tier is tentatively set to be rolled out as early as December 2, 2022, with a multi-colored verification system that goals to present out gold badges for firms, grey for governments, and blue for particular person accounts.
