You’ll Eventually Be Able to Video Chat on Twitter
Yaccarino told Eisen that there’s a few new features coming to the X-rebranded Twitter. One is video chat calls, which she said is better than using your phone since you don’t need to “give your phone number to anyone on the platform.”
Musk already claimed that Twitter would eventually let users make audio and video calls, but that was back in May and there’s been no word since. Yaccarino was copying her boss near-verbatim as he also proclaimed how you won’t need to give anyone your phone number.
There are plenty of apps that don’t require numbers for video calls, such as Meta’s Messenger. Of course, it’s unclear at this early stage whether video chats would be end-to-end encrypted, or how the company will update its privacy policy. Twitter did add encrypted DMs but its currently only those who pay $8 for their blue checkmark, and users need to “opt-in” to the encryption setting.
