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XChat, X’s standalone messaging app, was launched to the public on Friday. The new app, which was initially available on iOS devices, allows users to connect with their X contacts for messaging, file sharing, audio and video calls as well as group chats.
The company first began testing XChat publicly with a small group of beta users earlier this year to get their feedback on the new experience.
The XChat app is a key part of the company’s strategic vision, which sees the social network as a launching point for other services, such as messaging or payments. (The latter is also being tested as a custom app, though it’s not yet publicly available.)
However, X’s decision to split off part of its platform and become its own dedicated app is a shift away from owner Elon Musk’s previous plan to make
Instead, xAI (Musk’s AI company that owns X and Musk’s other company SpaceX) now offers a range of apps to provide more consumer touchpoints with its services.
At launch, XChat offers support for messaging and calling, as well as other features that it says are privacy-protected, including the ability to edit and delete messages for everyone in the chat; Support for disappearing messages. And the ability to block screenshots. X claims that there are no ads or tracking mechanisms in the app.
The company also claims that all messages are end-to-end encrypted and PIN-protected, although security experts have previously questioned the company’s encryption claims.
Security experts had previously warned potential users that XChat appeared less secure than other encrypted messaging apps, such as Signal, when the app was first introduced. They will need to evaluate the custom XChat app again, now that it’s widely available, to see if the necessary improvements have been made.
In addition to providing a place for private or group chats, XChat is also stepping in to serve as the new destination for X Communities, which the company decided to shut down due to lack of usage and large amounts of spam. The timing of this news could give XChat an early boost in new installs, as community members make the shift.
It appears that more updates to XChat are still planned, according to X lead designer Benji Taylor, who noted that the app is “just the beginning of what we’re building for messaging.”
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