Twitter launches encrypted DMs, but you’ll have to pay to use them

Therefore, during the journey in which a message is sent and received, it will not be accessible to anyone other than the recipient, whether links are sent or reactions that are part of the conversation.

Pay to send encrypted messages you must pay

Encrypted DMs have one main problem: they are only available to verified users, ie someone who pays for Twitter Blue, to a verified organization (they must pay too), or is affiliated with a verified organization.

On the other hand, they must also meet a series of requirements, such as having the latest version of the application, both on mobile devices and on the web, in addition to the fact that both users must follow each other and have sent a DM request. at some point in the past.

How to send an encrypted message on Twitter?

The dynamics will be quite similar to sending a normal message without encryption, because if the user is eligible for this new function, they will see a switch in the upper right corner to activate the encrypted mode.

One of the main deficiencies of this new element is that only individual messages can be sent. Twitter noted that they are working to make the feature available through groups.

This is one of the priority functions for Musk, since since November of last year he had insisted that it be implemented within the social network as part of his plan to build Twitter 2.0. In fact, throughout the week he posted a series of tweets where he anticipated the feature would be coming soon.

“We want to allow users to be able to communicate without worrying about their privacy, without worrying about a data breach on Twitter causing all of their DMs to hit the web or thinking that maybe someone on Twitter might be spying on their DMs,” he said. entrepreneur in november