Elon Musk has been having a tough time managing Twitter ever since he took over the company in October last year. Since then, he has been making several changes in the company to cut costs and generate profit. This includes introducing the highly polarized Twitter Blue policy.
Recently, the 51-year-old billionaire revealed some new changes in the micro-blogging site. This includes features like replying to DMs and encrypted DMs. These changes come just a month after the company seized all the legacy verified badges on the platform. So let’s find out the details.
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Elon Musk-Owned Twitter Introduces New Changes
On Wednesday, Elon Musk’s Twitter shared some of the new changes the company has rolled out. In a tweet from the company’s support account, they announced that users can now reply to specific messages and respond in any way not just via emojis.
Another one is encrypted DMs. Musk tweeted that its 1.0 release “should happen” on Wednesday. “This will grow in sophistication rapidly. The acid test is that I could not see your DMs even if there was a gun to my head“, he tweeted.
With latest version of app, you can DM reply to any message in the thread (not just most recent) and use any emoji reaction.
Release of encrypted DMs V1.0 should happen tomorrow. This will grow in sophistication rapidly. The acid test is that I could not see your DMs even if…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2023
He further informed users, “coming soon will be voice and video chat from your handle to anyone on this platform, so you can talk to people anywhere in the world without giving them your phone number.”
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Twitter Will Remove Accounts With Infrequent Usage
Recently, the social media giant announced that they will be removing all the accounts from the platform that haven’t done a log-in in 30 days. By doing this, the platform will be decluttered from inactive accounts.
Musk elaborated on this in a tweet, “We’re purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years, so you will probably see follower count drop.” In a separate tweet, he stated that those accounts will be archived.
Lately, Musk has been receiving a lot of flak from people for the unequal distribution of verified badges on the platform. Some celebrities have been given free blue tick marks without them paying for those badges.
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