Elon Musk Wants You to Use XChat for Your Next Signalgate

Elon Musk announced on Sunday that starting soon, you will be able to chat with your friends, family, and war collaborators on X, the everything app. Now, you might be thinking, “I could already do that, Twitter has had direct messages since basically forever.” And you would be right. But you see, this is XChat, Musk’s long-promised “secure” messaging service—though there are some questions as to just how secure it is. Per Musk, XChat (which it appears will simply replace the existing Messages feature) is rolling out with “encryption, vanishing messages and the ability to send any kind of file,” as well as video and audio calls. It’ll launch to a limited number of users, but Musk claims it’ll be available to all users “this week,” pending any scaling issues. Encryption has been a long-requested feature of Twitter’s messaging feature, something that journalists wanted long ago for communicating with sources on the platform, and other users have increasingly been drawn to as encryption ... Read full article.