X, formerly Twitter, is getting the ability to make video calls, the company CEO Linda Yaccarino has announced, says a report by TechCrunch that quoted a CNBC interview. Much like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and other social networking apps, users on the micro-blogging platform would now be able to make video chat calls as X shifts to become an "everything app". The company CEO was quoted as saying that video calls on the platform would become available without sharing phone numbers on X.
“Soon you’ll be able to make video chat calls without having to give your phone number to anyone on the platform,” X CEO was told CNBC’s Sara Eisen.
Andrea Conway, a designer at X had indicated the feature in a post where she wrote: “Just called someone on X.”
Yaccarino also spoke about the features that X is offering or mulling to introduce, such as creator subscriptions, payments and long-form videos.
This comes amid reports of X rewarding its premium users with substantial ad earnings, which has been widely celebrated by enthusiastic users, particularly favours members of the X Premium subscription service who have achieved a minimum of 15 million impressions over a span of three months. A significant number of X Premium users, easily recognisable by the blue verification checkmark adjacent to their usernames, enthusiastically shared screenshots and jubilant updates.
Since his acquisition of the platform, tech billionaire Elon Musk has posted his plans of transitioning "Twitter" into an "everything app" that included 25,000-character-long posts.
After renaming Twitter to X, Musk officially renamed the aggregating platform TweetDeck to XPro. The announcement of the renaming was made by Musk on July 28 through a tweet in which he stated, "Name is changing to XPro. Will come with a wide range of psy op plugins."