Twitter will encrypt private messages, says Elon Musk

Twitter plans to introduce an encrypted messaging service on Wednesday, its owner Elon Musk has tweeted.
Direct messages sent on Twitter will be end-to-end encrypted - this means private messages can only be read by the sender and the recipient.
Mr Musk said he would not be able to see users' messages "even if there was a gun to my head".
He also tweeted about other new intended features for the platform, including voice and video calls.

When he bought Twitter in 2022, Mr Musk hinted at plans to turn it into a "super-app" with multiple functions. In China the super-app WeChat can be used for everything from social media and ordering food to payments and messaging, but there is not really a comparable platform in the West.
Mr Musk said he expected encrypted messaging on Twitter "to grow in sophistication rapidly".
Cyber-security expert Jake Moore, from ESET, said Twitter was responding to demand from privacy-conscious users.
"Without the use of end-to-end encrypted messaging, Twitter staff and the company itself have the opportunity to read people's messages," he told the BBC.
"Although this can reap huge rewards for the platform, with advertisers being able to micro-target users, it is a huge security risk to those messaging without such privacy protection."