Twitter CEO Elon Musk has confirmed plans for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for direct messages on the Platform.

of feature It’s part of Musk’s vision for Twitter 2.0, which will be the so-called “everything app”. Other features include long-form tweets and payments, according to a slide deck shared by Musk over the weekend.

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The company’s plans for encrypted messages were first revealed in mid-November 2022 by mobile researcher Jane Manchun Wong. spotted Modification of Twitter’s Android app source code to reference E2EE chat conversation keys.

It’s worth noting that various other messaging platforms already support message encryption, including Signal, Threema, WhatsApp, iMessage, Wire, Tox, and Keybase.

Google already enabled E2EE one-on-one chat An RCS-based messaging app for Android is currently piloting the same option for group chats. Facebook likewise started enabling his E2EE on Messenger by default for some users last August.

Musk also added that new user signups to its social media platform are at an “all-time high,” averaging over 2 million per day over the past seven days as of Nov. 16, compared to the same week in 2021. We advertised a 66% increase. has over 253.8 million monetizable daily active users (mDAU).

The slide also reveals that reported impersonations on the service spiked earlier this month, both before and after the revamped service launched. twitter blue subscription.

of New subscription tier Scheduled to roll out as early as December 2, 2022, a multi-colored verification system intended to award businesses with gold badges, governments with gray badges, and personal accounts with blue badges. are available.

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