But Elon Musk isn't content with that status quo. As TechCrunch reports, Musk has made it clear over the years since he acquired and renamed Twitter that he wants DMs to compete with (and beat out) competitors like Signal and iMessage. Now, he's finally making a move, as DMs on X are transforming into something new: XChat.
Encryption is the first new feature Musk mentions in his XChat post, and it's no mystery why. End-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging is a key feature for modern chat apps. It ensures that only the users involved in the conversation are able to read the messages sent and received—if bad actors were to intercept the thread and attempt to read the messages without logging into the approved user's account, they'd see a jumble of meaningless code. Importantly, it means the company that makes the chat app can't access your messages either.
Musk isn't wrong that E2EE is necessary if you're trying to make a chat app to compete with the likes of Signal, but he also isn't clear if he understands how encryption works. Musk says XChat's encryption is "build on Rust with (Bitcoin style) encryption." Rust is a programming language, which makes his wording here a bit odd. (One Redditor points out Musk is treating Rust like a platform, not the programming language that it is.) But more importantly, Bitcoin isn't encrypted, which makes "Bitcoin-style encryption" a confusing statement. There's speculation that Musk means "cryptography," which Bitcoin does use, but that's not the same as encryption. For the sake of XChat's users, I hope chats are actually E2EE, but it's tough to say at this point.
Vanishing messages
It's not clear how XChat will handle vanishing messages, but I'm guessing the app will offer a self-destruct feature that will let you select a time limit before a sent message expires, like Telegram.
Make messages as unread
Musk did not announce this feature in his initial post, but a user testing out the beta noticed it. XChat supports "unreading" a message, or, essentially, marking it as unread. It's a small but helpful change for messages you can't get to right away, but don't want to forget about the next time you scroll through your chats.
Many apps place a time limit on this feature, however. iMessage, for example, only lets you undo a message within two minutes of sending it. After that, you'll only see the option to delete it for yourself. It's not yet clear how long XChat will let you delete a message for everyone after you send it.
Audio and video calls (which aren't actually new)
Will XChat actually catch on as a messaging alternative?
Maybe I'm skeptical, but I strongly doubt these new features—while genuinely useful—will make XChat the chat app to beat, and for a simple reason: Have you ever tried getting your friends and family to switch chat apps? It's like pulling teeth. People are set in their ways when it comes to communication—whether they're committed to their iPhones with iMessage, or they're dedicated to WhatsApp like most of the world. There are a lot of apps out there for communication, and while people switch between them for various reasons, you're unlikely to move them en masse to one specific platform.
Add to that the fact that this new option is tied to a controversial platform owned by a controversial person, and it's hard to imagine anyone signing up for X just to use XChat. I could be wrong, but something tells me I won't be XChatting with my friends and family in the near future.
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