After months of harsh criticism and questioning of his way of running Twitter, Elon Musk has decided to start announcing news that expands the platform’s services in his goal of turning the platform into a superapp in the style of China’s WeChat. The tycoon has revealed through his official account one of the jewels in the crown of the future projects of the little blue bird social network: the possibility of making audio and video calls.
With this new feature, Twitter will allow users to communicate with anyone on the platform without having to share their phone number, a very interesting possibility that could lead the platform that functions as an Internet agora to compete directly with WhatsApp and other services. Similar.
“Soon there will be voice and video chat from your account to anyone on this platform, so you can talk to people anywhere in the world without giving them your phone number,” Elon Musk announced on his own Twitter account, revealing the news. along with other new features.
In fact, the tech billionaire also commented that “with the latest version of the app, you can direct message any message in the thread (not just the most recent) and use any emoji reaction,” in addition to welcoming messages. direct encrypted: “I have not been able to see the messages even with a gun to my head,” he highlighted.
Musk’s move is very ambitious and is part of his strategy to turn Twitter into a much broader platform than what it has offered to date, making the social network useful for much more than sharing messages publicly and directly replacing the The most classic WhatsApp-style instant messaging.
These announcements are added to the new tweet service of up to 10,000 characters for Twitter Blue subscribers, new text formats, monetization and the expansion towards content creation, with the star signing of former Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson, exclusively for an ever-widening social network.