Get ready for a major upgrade to your X experience! The platform is buzzing with excitement as its brand-new direct messaging feature, XChat, has begun rolling out to beta testers. This is fantastic news for X users, promising a significantly more robust and secure way to connect.
Select X premium subscribers are already getting a sneak peek, reporting access to the XChat interface. Adding to the anticipation, renowned reverse engineer Nima Owji has confirmed to TechCrunch that this revamped messaging system appears polished and ready for a wider launch.
So, what’s the big deal about XChat? It’s designed to be a powerful evolution of X’s existing DMs, a feature that has remained largely unchanged since before Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. This upgrade is set to bring a host of modern messaging tools to your fingertips.
Users can look forward to an impressive suite of rumored features, including:
Group Messages: Making it easier to chat with multiple people at once.
End-to-End Encryption: A huge win for privacy, ensuring your conversations stay secure.
Vanishing Mode: For messages that disappear after being read.
Mark as Unread: A handy tool to keep track of important DMs.
File Sharing: Seamlessly send files directly within your chats.
Passcode Security: An extra layer of protection with a rumored 4-digit passcode for your messages.
This exciting development also sheds light on X’s recent announcement to pause work on its older encrypted DMs feature. It seems XChat is poised to take over, rendering the existing interface obsolete with a far more comprehensive system. It’s worth noting that paid subscribers on X have had access to a limited form of encrypted messaging for the past two years, but XChat aims to take this to a whole new level for everyone.
For years, Elon Musk has spoken passionately about his vision to integrate a “Signal-like” secure messaging service directly into X. With XChat gearing up for public use, this news signals a major step towards fulfilling that ambitious goal, promising a richer, more private, and feature-packed communication experience for the X community.
