Since 2013 people were speculating that Twitter volition select end-to-end encryption to its at ane time messages, together with lastly virtually five years afterwards the encryption era began, the fellowship is at nowadays testing an end-to-end encrypted messaging on Twitter.
Dubbed "Secret Conversation," the characteristic has been spotted inward the latest version of Android application bundle (APK) for Twitter past times Jane Manchun Wong, a figurer scientific discipline pupil at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
End-to-end encryption allows users to post together with have messages inward a agency that no one, live it an FBI agent amongst a warrant, hacker or fifty-fifty the service itself, tin intercept them.
However, it seems similar the Secret Conversation characteristic has currently been available exclusively to a minor give away of users for testing. So, if yous are ane of those lucky ones, yous volition live able to post end-to-end encrypted Secret Conversation through Direct Messages.
Secret Conversation appears to let Twitter users to post encrypted at ane time messages together with beef upwardly the safety of their conversation.
How to Send Encrypted Twitter Direct Messages
As shown inward the screenshot shared past times Wong, ane needs to follow below-mentioned steps to get-go a Secret Conversation on Twitter (after it's available to everyone):
- Open the Twitter app on your Android device.
- Open an existing conversation or get-go a novel DM conversation amongst the mortal yous desire to chat secretly.
- Tap the information icon inward the upper correct corner of your phone.
- Select 'Start a undercover text message,' together with a novel window volition opened upwardly where yous tin post encrypted messages.
It should live noted that the electrical current infrastructure of Twitter does non offering the privacy of individuals' encryption keys require to encrypt/decrypt messages, hence Secret Conversation characteristic would non live available for desktop/web version of Twitter.
Instead, exclusively mobile apps (Android/iOS) for Twitter tin easily live used to perish on your encryption keys undercover on your smartphones, only similar WhatsApp, together with Facebook Messenger.
Besides Secret Conversation, Twitter is besides working on an in-app "Data Saver" mode, which if enabled, saves to a greater extent than or less of your bandwidth together with speeds upwardly the app past times disabling autoplay for videos together with loading of heavy images.
