Meet Chad, a proud Tesla owner.  He met Bianca on TwitterDate. Chad and Bianca loved each others’ humorous, clever Twitter history and exchanged DMs, and enjoyed hours of TwitterVideo Chat late into the night.  They continued to use Twitter after they were married and had their lovely twins.  Encryption was what they relied on for all their secure financial and legal communication. X is their everything App. 

Life is about love, communication and security.  In this article we’ll look at how the everything app improves life for humans and creates a better user experience. 

SOLVING UNDERPOPULATION AND TWITTER DATING

Twitter may one day engineer TwitterDate, a way for people to meet.   I wrote about underpopulation last year in the article Elon Musk: Discussion About Underpopulation and noted that for years, Elon has been correcting the false perception that there are too many people.  

In an interview with Johnna Crider last year, Elon said,

“The population decline problem, I think is possibly the biggest risk to civilization or its certainly one of the biggest risks. 

First of all, a lot of people think that there are too many humans on the planet and the planet can’t sustain this number of humans.  This is absolutely not true. 

We could double the population without any meaningful damage to the environment. You can put all the humans on earth in the city of New York.  That’s the cross-sectional area of humans. They could literally fit in the city of New York on one floor, you don’t even need high-rises.  And if you’re on a plane flight and you look down and you say, “what percentage of the time, if I were to drop a ball, would that ball hit a person?”  Basically zero.

Even in a city like LA, where we think, “oh, that’s a crowded city,” looking at it from above, what’s the cross-sectional area of humans relative to the rest of the ground?”  It’s much less than 1%, even in LA. 

So if you’re in a big city environment and you see a lot of people you sort of extrapolate that to everywhere, but it’s actually very rare to see a concentration of humans. 

Earth is very sparsely populated with humans.  There’s not enough humans, far from being too many.  I think people are still sort of operating on the assumption that the population is growing like crazy when in fact the opposite is occurring.  These numbers are easy to look up, they’re just on the internet.  We had the lowest birthrate in recorded history last year.” – Elon Musk

Underpopulation is a very real problem.  Twitter may help solve it by helping people meet others and that may possibly lead to more happy families with kids who can say, “My mommy met my daddy on Twitter!”  

When Steven Mark Ryan suggested, “When Twitter dating app? Might save humanity from extinction, not even joking.  Very low hanging fruit.”  Elon Musk replied, “Interesting idea, maybe jobs too.”

DMs are important for dating and beyond. Twitter is improving DMs. 

TWITTER DMs

This is a small change but one that will save you time and help you communicate faster. 

Twitter quietly revealed a new feature so you may reply to a DM in a message thread and not just the most recent one. This feature just recently came to iPhones in 2022. 

Scroll back in your message thread and find the message you’d like to respond to, hold onto it, and reply. You can also use any emoji reaction (hearts are nice) to that message.  

TWITTER VOICE AND VIDEO CHAT

Sometimes text is not enough, and you need to do a voice or video chat. 

This feature is coming soon to Twitter. Imagine talking with new friends from around the world, without leaving the Bird App?

Voice capabilities on Twitter would mean it could save many people money because it would function as a phone service.  

WHY TWITTER ENCRYPTED MESSAGES ARE BETTER

What do Signal, WhatsApp, and Wire have in common? All three are popular encrypted messaging apps that require you to reveal your phone number, which puts you at a security risk.

Twitter encrypted DM‘s are, in my opinion, much more secure. You can talk to people anywhere in the world without revealing your phone number.  

In typical fast-moving Elon Musk-style, Version 1.0 of encryption is the first and will improve rapidly. 

Elon Musk said,

“The acid test is that I could not see your DMs even if there was a gun to my head.”

Everyday, Elon Musk builds a better, stronger, and more trusted team at Twitter.  The future is exciting for both Twitter users and the many dedicated people who are helping to build a better everything App – X.

_{Article by Gail Alfar, all rights reserved. Photo credits to Viv on Twitter, Consider Cosmos and Mary L.Bender.  Gratitude Elon Musk and all the Twitter team.  Mentioned in this article:  Johnna Steven Mark and Johnna Crider.}