We still don't know what a Twitter run by Musk will look like. But the Tesla CEO has dropped a few hints on what he wants to see. Let's take a closer look.
Twitter accepted Elon Musk’s bid to but the social media giant on Monday, and we’re still waiting to see two things: If the deal will hold and, more importantly, what a Musk-helmed Twitter will look like after the smoke clears. While no concrete plans have materialized yet for what new features await us in the “new Twitter,” Musk has dropped a few hints over the last few weeks about the kinds of changes he’d like to make to everyone’s favorite social media hellhole.
If he establishes that what he considers free speech is beyond Twitter’s existing policies, he may very well create a new Twitter. But it may be one in which users may not feel free at all to voice their opinions lest they be stuck with unchecked harassment from other users. An edit button Before getting into this, it’s important to establish that Twitter is already working on an edit button and has been “since last year.” So well before Musk and his bid to buy Twitter. That said, Musk has shown interest in the feature. He even polled his followers about it, earlier this month: But it’s in the replies of this tweet poll where you can get a sense of the direction this edit button might take under Musk.
Twitter DMs should have end to end encryption like Signal, so no one can spy on or hack your messages And according to a reply from Jane Manchun Wong, Twitter had in fact worked on such a feature, “but abandoned it.” Wong’s reply also linked to one of her tweets from 2018 in which she shared screenshots of the then in-progress end-to-end encrypted DMs feature.
Broader authentication If encrypted DMs were Musk’s most bluntly requested feature, authentication is probably his haziest. He’s mentioned it as something he wants, but hasn’t been too clear about how it should happen.
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