through encryption of personal messages is part of what Elon Musk calls Twitter 2.0: “Appendix for everything.” From other innovations, it is also worth noting:
Blue subscription;
the possibility of publishing long tweets;
Video content processing on the platform
Adding interactive advertising;
new payment system;
Add calls.
For the first time, the company’s plans to introduce through encryption in personal messages became known in mid -November 2022, when mobile developers noticed changes in the source code of the Twitter application for Android. Through encryption will be developed jointly with Moxy Marlinspike – the creator of the Signal messenger.
In terms of encryption, Twitter is behind competitors – through encryption is already actively used in Signal, Threma, WhatsApp, Imessage, Wire, Tox and Keybase.
At his speech for employees, Mask noted that the number of new users on the platform reached a historical maximum, the number of registrations increased by 66 % compared to the same period of 2021, and the number of “minutes of activity” was record -high, reaching approximately 8 billion minutes in a day. Moreover, the number of xenophobic statements, on the contrary, decreased.