Days after company CEO Linda Yaccarino said that X would be getting a video calling feature, Elon Musk on Thursday announced that audio and video call features will be added to the platform soon. The video and audio calling feature on X, formerly Twitter will work on platforms including Android, iOS, PCs and Macs. The feature will not require a phone number to make audio and video calls.
"Video & audio calls coming to X: - Works on iOS, Android, Mac & PC - No phone number needed - X is the effective global address book. That set of factors is unique," Musk posted.
With the addition of this feature, much like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and other social networking apps, users on the micro-blogging platform would also be able to make video and audio chat calls as X shifts to become an "everything app". The company CEO was earlier quoted as saying that video calls on the platform would become available without sharing phone numbers on X.
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."
The biggest change was renaming the micro-blogging platform from Twitter to X and changing the "iconic" bird logo in favour of an "X" logo. The platform witnessed not a decrease in the number of downloads but saw a decline in weekly active users too. There was a four per cent decline in X's weekly active users in the weeks that followed the rebranding of Twitter, says a report by TechCrunch that quoted data from SensorTower.