The social platform X is planning to replace its current private message system. In its place, it’ll introduce something it calls XChat.
The social media platform X plans to unleash a replacement for its private message system. The replacement will be known as XChat. It’ll be, as you probably guessed, a private chat platform.
As far as I can tell, users won’t lose their existing private messages. Instead, Xchat will pull those old messages in. It appears developers are going to recode that existing messaging app.
Mashable predicts X will position the new messaging app to compete with the likes of WhatsApp. Expected features, it says, could include encrypted messaging, file sharing, disappearing messages, unread status toggles, message deletion for everyone (not just you).
Voice messages might even be on the horizon sometime after it launches.
I have WhatsApp but have never really made much use of it. I’ve tried Snapchat, whose messages disappear completely after 24 hours. (I’m not sure whether WhatsApp’s do.)
Signal, an app I’ve never tried, seems to have the best reputation among secure messaging apps out there. But even on Signal, your privacy is only as good as the people you invite to converse with, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth found out the hard way.
I’m still on X because some social media management tools I use require a Twitter account. Otherwise, I might have abandoned it altogether. But with the growing amount of direct message spam across multiple social media platforms these days, I wouldn’t be enthusiastic about trying any of them.
If you haven’t completely given up on X by now, would you be enthusiastic over this new XChat?
