Elon Musk has a lot to celebrate in his new political career, but one of his businesses is suffering; We're talking about X, the social network formerly known as Twitter that has been losing users at a notable rate over the past month. Millions of X users are turning to Bluesky, an alternative closer to “Twitter as always” in style and functionality.
While it's true that Bluesky's growth has finally slowed a bit (even though it surpassed 25 million registered users last weekend), it doesn't appear to be a simple ” fashion”, but rather of a real threat to recover these usersor at least, attract new ones; and one possible solution is to offer more features that are not available on other sites.
An example of this would be Xmaila name that has not been confirmed but is already being used by fans and even X employees, who also join in the speculation. But only now has Elon Musk himself confirmed the development of this new feature, confirming a surprising detail that can differentiate it from other similar ones.
As its name suggests, Xmail would be an email manager; but far from being a simple alternative to Gmail, it would be a little more ambitious. The idea that Musk confirmed is that of a service more similar to a messaging app like WhatsApp, and therefore it would not use the traditional format of a messaging application. A strange mix, but it can work.
The motivation behind Xmail would be to offer a simplified email service with the interface of an email application. Therefore, emails could appear as chats in X, and receiving and sending them would be as easy as sending a message on WhatsApp. Instead of having to fill out fields and struggle with email formatting, the experience with Xmail would be much more relaxed, simply responding as if they had sent us a chatand the application would take care of the rest of the work.
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The great thing about emails is that they are an open and established standard; As long as this standard is respected, they are compatible with all messaging applications. So, Xmail could receive emails from other apps and vice versa, but if we use it in app X, that's where it would really show its value as an advanced email app.
It's a curious concept, although we must not forget that it is not the only one promised by Musk. From the first moment he acquired Twitter, the mogul clearly expressed his ambition to make it “an app for everything”; In addition to the social network, X would have all the functions necessary for daily life on the Internet, from payments to blogs. In practice, X remains a social network, but a feature like Xmail could change that.
