Elon Musk announces Twitter to soon introduce voice and video calls.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday announced that the microbloggig site will soon to have several new updates in its latest version.

Twitter CEO said that now one can "DM reply to any message in the thread (not just most recent) and use any emoji reaction."

The early version of encrypted "DMs V1.0" launched today, on May 11, 2023, a feature that Musk and Twitter have been promising for a while now.

To which, Musk tweeted, "Try it, but don’t trust it yet."

Elon Musk further announced that soon Twitter will have voice and video chat and that anyone can talk to people anywhere in the world without giving them their phone number.

Ever since Musk took over Twitter last year, he has repeatedly been talking about turning the platform into a so-called “everything app” like 'WeChat' in China or 'Kakao' in South Korea.

So who are eligible to send and receive encrypted messages? According to Twitter Help Centre page, both the sender and recipient who have the latest version of the app (iOS, Android, Web) and are verified users or affiliates to a verified organization; and the recipient follows sender, or has sent a message to sender previously, or has accepted a Direct Message request from the sender before.

However the feature is still under a number of technical limitations.

“As Elon Musk said, when it comes to Direct Messages, the standard should be, if someone puts a gun to our heads, we still can’t access your messages. We’re not quite there yet, but we’re working on it,” said Twitter in its Help Center page.