Twitter has revealed that encrypted direct messages are now supported. It allows subscribers to communicate without the platform storing their messages, which will only be available on the device.
The big problem is that only paying members will get it – it includes verified users and organizations or their affiliates. The requirement is for both sender and receiver, which means that if you don’t pay at least $8 a month for Twitter Blue, your encrypted DMs will remain unavailable.
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Encrypted messages will appear as separate conversations and are currently limited to one-to-one messages; that means no group chats for now.
Other limitations of these messages include no protection from “man-in-the-middle attacks”. The mandatory legal process means that Twitter is capable of compromising the conversation and neither the sender nor the recipient would know about it. Messages and links will be encrypted by themselves, but metadata such as recipient, creation time or linked content will not.
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Hopefully, this isn’t the final stage of encrypted DMs because we don’t expect Twitter users to dig $8 a month out of their pockets to access a feature that’s available for free on WhatsApp, Messenger, Signal, and iMessage.
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