Elon Musk Confirmed the Audio-video Feature on Twitter
Elon Musk, the owner of streaming website Twitter, has confirmed that the platform will soon feature audio and video calls. This will be the first time that Twitter will offer a feature similar to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and WhatsApp.
Several Changes
Twitter hasn’t offered an audio or video call feature for the past decade and a half, but after Elon Musk bought it, several changes were announced. It was initially reported in May 2023 that Twitter will introduce video and audio calling features and now Elon Musk has confirmed it. Elon Musk said in his short tweet that the feature of audio and video calls will be offered on Twitter soon.
Web Version
He wrote that simultaneously the above feature will be offered on the web version along with the application, i.e., Android and iOS. People using Twitter on laptops and computers, including S users, will also be able to make video and audio calls.
Does not Require a Mobile number
However, in addition to mobiles, users using computers and laptops will need other devices including headphones to use the said feature. Elon Musk also confirmed that the feature of audio and video calls does not require a mobile number. It means that the mentioned feature will work just like the audio and video call feature of Facebook Messenger. Apart from the mention feature, there is a possibility that the payment feature will introduce on Twitter in the future, but it is not clear when the payment feature will be on Twitter will be present.
Payment Feature
It is likely that the payment feature will take more than a year to roll out. Since Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, the platform has undergone. Many changes and plans to make more changes has been announce. Elon Musk bought Twitter for about $45 billion. After which he end the feature of providing free blue ticks to verify accounts and start providing it for a monthly fee.
Various things in the Twitter app
Before this, Elon Musk had introduce various things in the Twitter app, like recently he announce on May 18, 2023, that a maximum of 10 minutes of video can be upload on Twitter, later 60 minutes. The policy was adopt. Once again, the policy was change. The video upload duration has increase to 2 hours. The size of a 2-hour video will now be 8 GB which was earlier 2 GB.
Block feature was remove from Twitter
After that, the block feature was remove from Twitter and another development follow. Until then, normal Twitter users are able to tweet containing 280 words. While Twitter Blue users can also tweet containing 10,000 words. But under the new feature, users will also be able to publish notes. Using the same feature, users will be able to publish long articles and even entire books as per their choice.
Twitter is also work other features
Elon Musk himself confirmed the presentation of the said new feature on Twitter. And he replied to a user’s tweet saying that work is underway on the new feature. The user mention in his tweet. That Twitter is working on a new feature called “Notes”. which is likely to introduce soon. Will be able to publish if you want to publish the entire book. But recently he said he introduce audio-video call feature on Twitter app and web version.