Elon Musk announces launch of encrypted DMs for Twitter Blue subscribers

Twitter chief Elon Musk on Thursday announced the launch of encrypted direct messages on the social media platform, something he had said the company was working on.

“Early version of encrypted direct messages just launched. Try it, but don’t trust it yet,” Musk posted in a tweet.

On Tuesday, Musk had revealed other soon-to-be-incorporated features in the micro-blogging site, including voice and video call, and DM (direct message) replies to messages on a thread.

Twitter’s encrypted messages feature comes with certain caveats. The encryption feature, for instance, is opt-in and not turned on by default. Also, it is only available to verified users,