X is working on a new feature that will let you call your friends on the app.
Elon Musk’s obsession with the alphabet aside, Twitter’s X rebrand isn’t all meaningless. The platform aims to become an all-encompassing app that will offer features beyond micro-blogging. While so little has been done in that direction aside from stripping Twitter from all indications of its former branding, that seems to be changing now.
Andrea Conway, a designer at X, has hinted that the platform may soon gain a built-in voice call feature. In a post, she revealed that she “just called someone on X”.
While X DMs do support voice messages, support for calls will definitely be a first. Currently, the only way to have live conversations on the platform is through Spaces, a feature that resembles social audio app Clubhouse’s offering. But since anyone can tune into Spaces or request to chime in the conversation, it’s not suitable for one-on-one conversations.
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That may change if and when the purported voice calling feature makes it to X.
Support for calls will also help make X a more complete social media platform akin to Facebook and Instagram, and perhaps help it put some more distance between potential rivals like Threads and Bluesky.
Elon Musk first talked about calling functionality on the platform back in May. “Coming soon will be voice and video chat from your handle to anyone on this platform, so you can talk to people anywhere in the world without giving them your phone number,” he had announced in a tweet.
Source:indianexpress.com