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X’s long-awaited encrypted DM feature, XChat, is becoming more widely available. Though the feature shipped in beta in May, XChat is now accessible for more users, including those who do not subscribe ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. For close to two decades, Twitter users have ...

X, formerly Twitter, has started rolling out its new encrypted messaging feature called “Chat” or “XChat.” The company claims the new communication feature is end-to-end encrypted, meaning messages ...

X DMs may soon be kaput. On Tuesday, a company software engineer posted on the platform that "the whole entire DM's will be gone soon." But the former Twitter isn't getting rid of messaging; the ...

Elon Musk has said that X (formerly Twitter) is rolling out a chat feature with “bitcoin style encryption.” The feature dubbed XChat would have features like encryption and vanishing messages to ...

Moving ahead with his “everything app” vision, Elon Musk has announced new functionality for X’s private messaging feature, “XChat,” which he says involves “Bitcoin style encryption” powered by a ...

Elon Musk has introduced a new chat interface for the X app ( formerly Twitter), which will now be called XChat. The XChat is the in-app direct messaging feature, which will enable users to ...