Twitter chief govt Elon Musk confirmed plans for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for direct messages on the platform.
The feature is a part of Musk’s imaginative and prescient for Twitter 2.0, which is predicted to be what’s referred to as an “every thing app.” Different functionalities embrace longform tweets and funds, in keeping with a slide deck shared by Musk over the weekend.
The corporate’s plans for encrypted messages first got here to gentle in mid-November 2022, when cell researcher Jane Manchun Wong spotted supply code adjustments in Twitter’s Android app referencing dialog keys for E2EE chats.
It is value noting that numerous different messaging platforms, equivalent to 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 at present piloting the identical choice for group chats. Fb, likewise, started enabling E2EE on Messenger for choose customers by default this previous August.
Musk additional touted that new consumer 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 day by 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 provide out gold badges for corporations, grey for governments, and blue for particular person accounts.
