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Elon Musk announces audio, video calls on X
Elon Musk, the owner of the social media platform X, on Thursday unveiled plans to introduce video and audio calling features, marking a pivotal move towards transforming the platform, formerly known as Twitter, into a comprehensive “everything app.”
“Video & audio calls coming to X,” Musk wrote in a post on the platform, without specifying when the new features would be available.
The calling features would work on iOS, Android, Mac, and PC systems, and no phone number would be needed, he said.
“X is the effective global address book,” the billionaire added. “That set of factors is unique.”
In the previous month, Musk, alongside recently appointed CEO Linda Yaccarino, revealed the platform’s rebranding as X. This transformation is aimed at reshaping it into an “everything app,” drawing inspiration from China’s WeChat.
On Monday, X’s financial division, Twitter Payments LLC, was granted a significant currency transmitter license by the state of Rhode Island in the United States. This pivotal license empowers X to undertake cryptocurrency-related operations, encompassing exchanges, wallets, and payment processing activities, as reported by the cryptocurrency-focused website CoinWire this week.
This license equips X to securely manage the storage, transfer, and facilitation of digital asset exchanges on behalf of its users, as stated by CoinWire.
Since Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter in October of the previous year, the platform’s advertising sector has experienced a decline due to disapproval of his managerial approach and extensive layoffs that severely impacted content moderation.
Musk has shifted his focus toward cultivating a subscriber base and implementing a payment model to explore fresh avenues of revenue generation.
The platform’s introduction of charges for services that were formerly free, along with modifications to content moderation strategies and the revival of previously banned far-right accounts, has been met with resistance from both users and advertisers.
Musk has further made a distinctive change by replacing the iconic blue bird logo of Twitter with a white X.
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