Overview
- An in‑app X Chat beta is live for Premium subscribers with text, photos, GIFs, media attachments, and file sharing tied to X handles rather than phone numbers.
- Elon Musk said a separate X Chat app will launch in the coming months while the messaging experience remains integrated inside X.
- Musk described the security design as peer‑to‑peer and similar to Bitcoin, calling the encryption “very good” but still under thorough internal testing.
- He said the service omits advertising hooks to limit metadata collection, contrasting X Chat with rivals that retain data for ad targeting.
- Audio and video calling are part of the roadmap but are not available in the current beta, which replaces X’s legacy direct messages.