This is the best summary I could come up with:
X, the platform previously known as Twitter, is rolling out audio and video calls.
Several users on the platform, including some of us here at The Verge, have received a notification when opening the app, stating: “Audio and video calls are here!”
There’s also a new “Enable audio and video calling” toggle within the app’s settings, which says you can “turn the feature on and then select who you’re comfortable using it with.” It includes options to allow audio and video calls from only people in your address book, people you follow, verified users, or all three.
X owner Elon Musk has long hinted at adding audio and video calls to the platform as part of his goals to make it the “everything app.” Musk recently said the feature would be available on iOS, Android, Mac, and PC, with “no phone number needed.”
It’s still not clear how widely X has launched audio and video calls or if non-Premium users can use it.
Last month, hashtag inventor and open-source advocate Chris Messina found that X’s code suggested that users would have to sign up for X’s Premium subscription to use it.
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I hate that logo. I glanced at the subject and thought the X Window System was standardizing remote audio over the X protocol.
There’s also a new “Enable audio and video calling” toggle within the app’s settings, which says you can “turn the feature on and then select who you’re comfortable using it with.” It includes options to allow audio and video calls from only people in your address book, people you follow, verified users, or all three.
Five bucks says that when basically no one enables this it will be turned on by default for everyone to receive calls from verified users within the next 8 weeks.
Oh and the only way to turn it off will to be a verified user…
Ah, finally! I’ve been wanting a way to attempt to talk with people over a service whose basic functionality is spotty at best. I’m sure this functionality that no one asked for will be just what we haven’t been looking for.
Another brilliant checkers move on the 4D chessboard, by Elon!
I don’t use Twitter much, but I doubt that it’s that much of a change. It’s had some kind of streaming functionality for some time. I’ve seen people do podcast-style interview things with it on an occasion or two.