X adds video calling — and lets strangers ring you: Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up
independent.co.uk
X adds video calling — and lets strangers ring you: Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up::Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up
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Headline: “let’s anyone you follow potentially call you up”
Article: “To be able to call someone, they must have sent at least one direct message to your account.”
This makes total sense. Your DM conversation has too much back and forth so you say “let’s take it to an audio or video call”, and then hash it out in person.
There’s a reason Slack has this exact same feature…
I think the problem here is there's no prior consent. If you've DM'd someone in the past, they can now call you. Twitter never had video call before, and the people who use it never expected to be giving consent for a video call maybe even several years later.
Why did we go from the more descriptive "private message (PM) to direct (DM)like why replace it? Anyone know?
Because of the implication it's not actually private, since admins can see it and/or it's used for analytics.
It's still private for the purposes that other users can't see it.
Yeah, however the term is disingenuous.
But still not actually private