If you have been on the internet in recent days, you may have already heard that Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, following back-and-forth discussions with the company’s board. Now, apart from a much-requested edit button, it seems like Musk wants to make direct messages on Twitter end-to-end encrypted for additional security of the users. Let’s take a look at the details.
After acquiring Twitter to make it a private organization, Elon Musk recently posted a tweet, which gives us a hint at an important change for direct messages on Twitter. Musk, in his recent tweet, wrote that direct messages on Twitter should be end-to-end encrypted to prevent anyone from reading them.
While E2EE is present in almost every communication-focused platform like WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams, Signal, Telegram, and others, Twitter DMs are not end-to-end encrypted. This means that Twitter can read your direct messages on the platform for investigation purposes. In fact, as pointed out by a Twitterati, the company explicitly mentions this in its policy (image attached below).
