O Twitter has sought to reinvent itself and present new features that keep users on this social network. With competition growing, Elon Musk's social network is preparing new features. From what has been seen, it will soon also have video and voice calls.
The owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, announced this Tuesday, the 9th, that audio and video calls will soon be able to be made on the platform. “So you can talk to people all over the world without giving them your phone number,” Musk tweeted.
With the latest version of the app, you can DM reply to any message in the thread (not just the most recent) and use any emoji reaction.
Release of encrypted DMs V1.0 should happen tomorrow. This will grow in sophistication rapidly. The acid test is that I couldn't see your DMs even if…
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2023
In a later comment posted on Twitter, Musk said the messaging app WhatsApp, operated by Meta, is unreliable. A messaging function on Twitter could compete with the host of free services offered by, among others, Messenger, Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp.
It is important to remember that, at the beginning of the year, Elon Musk had left the indication that Twitter would be working on a new voice and video calling system for the platform, but since then nothing concrete had been revealed.
Although the functionality is welcome, at the same time, some users point out that it may be exclusive only to those who have Twitter Blue. The company has been focusing considerably on making some of the platform's features only available to those who pay to use it – and this could be another one of them coming soon.
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—Andrea Conway (@ehikian) July 7, 2023
This novelty comes at the same time that social networking media are gaining prominence, with the arrival of new rivals for Twitter, such as Bluesky and Threads da Meta.
