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Who is this for in the first place?


Musk considers Twitter as the 'town square' and he wants to bring all of those features for payment and whatnot that apps in China already have to his 'town square'.

I think he has been off the ball with Twitter/X, using it as his own private megaphone rather than building out the features, however, encrypted messaging is going to be the cornerstone of future developments such as a means of payment, or a WhatsApp rival and so on. I find it hard to believe, but maybe there is a cadre of engineers at Twitter with a vision of what it should be, and building out a serious platform.


For Twitter/X users that want to communicate with each other using end-to-end encryption.


Where "end" is a bit loose -- presumably nothing stopping them from reading the text when it is rendered in a div or what have you.




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