It’s been several days that we are linked and it’s true chaos on Twitter, with Elon Musk shaking up all the company’s plans and making changes practically on the fly (or so it seems). One of these recently detected changes directly affects the service’s private messages, better known as DM (direct messages).
Apparently the service is preparing for encrypt these messages end-to-end, elevating privacy and security to the level of WhatsApp or iMessage. In a way, you could call Twitter DMs a secure messaging client.
Twitter can be another email client
Developer Jane Manchun was the first to notice this, posting on Twitter some of the source code she located in the service’s client for Android. In this source code we have a message that mention this encryption when it is not present at the moment on Twitter, which means he would prepare.
Twitter brings back end-to-end encrypted DMs
See signs of the feature being worked on in Twitter for Android: https://t.co/YtOPHH3ntD pic.twitter.com/5VODYt3ChK
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) November 16, 2022
We have more suspicions when Elon Musk himself reply to that same tweet with a winkassuming that we will indeed have end-to-end encryption in the future:
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 16, 2022
Point-to-point encryption will ensure that no middle man can read our messages, although it would make it harder to sync those messages between devices. Maybe there’s an added layer of complication
For the moment I prefer not to bet on any release date for this function. These are very turbulent days for Twitter, with Musk making drastic decisions almost daily. There will be time to wait, whether it be weeks or months, to see if encryption arrives in an update.
