Twitter to bring end-to-end encryption back to Direct Messages again

Nwachukwu Glory  - Tech Expert
Last updated: November 15, 2023
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  • Encryption is an essential feature for consumer privacy, especially in authoritarian regimes.
  • Twitter is reviving end-to-end encryption in its direct messages (DMs) to join the leagues of secure messaging apps like Signal and Wickr.
  • However, encrypted messaging has a dark side, like facilitating malicious activities.

Since Elon Musk’s arrival, Twitter has been going through various changes that he hopes will improve the platform. For example, according to an independent researcher Jane Manchun Wong, it appears as if the company is working on a new feature for the Android app.

She spotted changes in Twitter’s code indicating a return of end-to-end encrypted direct messages (DM). Twitter started making Twitter DMs more secure in 2018 but abandoned these efforts.