Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/twitter-video-call-phone-messages-b2436587.html
X adds video calling — and lets strangers ring you: Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up::Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up
I’m going to go ahead and assume the one person on X that you can’t call is old Muck himself. Wonder why?
Then again, X is such a shit show and Elon is so incapable of thinking two steps ahead of his feet that maybe you can call him lol
Only one way to find out
He might not consider it a necessary feature. I mean, not even his own kids want to talk to him.
My bet is he’d be too fucking arrogant and think people would genuinely call him out of admiration and he could create some viral moment showcasing how awesome he is.
My bet is this isn’t really about people calling each other, but more about exTwitter having access to users’ microphones and cameras and is turned on by default.
The system means that all accounts are liable to receive calls from accounts you follow, or those run by people whose number you have in your address book. To be able to call someone, they must have sent at least one direct message to your account.
He’s probably left it on.
Why would anyone want this functionality?
I’m guessing this is so if Elon gets a negative reply to one of his tweets he can call that person up and threaten them or something?
Omg this might actually be a good reason to get back on twitter
I can already make video calls from Signal, which isn’t run by neofarcists.
Stragglers of a dying platform get new bait and switch service. Expect fees once enought people us it.
It already requires the monthly subscription to use.
This would be a good reason to delete my X account
This would be like the 18th good reason.
Do it!
BRB, double-checking that shitty app is not on my phone…
With, like, 20 employees, how can they support this?
Bold of you to assume there’s any support.
I mean, Jeff said he got it covered… yeah, Jeff’s got this one.
I’m sure no predators will be calling people fully nude, no way thats going to happen
If they follow predators maybe they want a lil peek
The system means that all accounts are liable to receive calls from accounts you follow, or those run by people whose number you have in your address book. To be able to call someone, they must have sent at least one direct message to your account.
You’re not going to get phone calls from just any rando.
Why do people still use X these days? Stop using and EM will eventually be forced to close the company down
He is really after making it an “everything app” which nobody uses. Anyone here really has twitter or Facebook installed on their phone ?
The average lemmy user maybe not, but year hundreds of millions of people still use twitter, and billions use Facebook.
Started using mastodon recently, but I still surf twitter to see what my friends are tweeting about.
Deleted the app from my phone the day Elmo took control. Still use it via Firefox with Tampermonkey and Control Panel for Twitter, I only see stuff from those I follow, and anyone with a paid subscription is blocked. Tolerable like this.
I have Twitter installed on my phone
Headline: “let’s anyone you follow potentially call you up”
Article: “To be able to call someone, they must have sent at least one direct message to your account.”
This makes total sense. Your DM conversation has too much back and forth so you say “let’s take it to an audio or video call”, and then hash it out in person.
There’s a reason Slack has this exact same feature…
My guy, Facebook has had this feature for 10 years.
People still using it?
Anyone still on twitter who is actually affected by this deserves every bit of it. What else did they think Musky was going to do.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Twitter has added video calling – and left it turned on by default.
The feature is now being officially rolled out, Elon Musk confirmed.
Video calls are part of Elon Musk’s plans to make Twitter, which he has renamed X, into the “everything app”, offering a wide array of different functionality.
For now, video calls are limited to the iOS app, and appear to be rolling out slowly.
From the direct message settings, users can either disable it entirely or change it so that they can receive calls from people in your address book, from people you follow, or from all “verified” users.
If the feature is enabled, then a phone icon should show within the direct message conversation, and tapping audio or video will start the relevant kind of call.
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bogdugg@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
An “Everything App” is just an operating system.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
You nailed it, he wants to create OS X.
Patch@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Sold on his very own special X boxes.
DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
OS X already exists…it’s just renamed to macOS these days
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The explanation for why we don’t have “everything apps” in the US is because we all have an app store, and that’s the niche the everything apps were really solving for.
golli@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That and i think we also adopted technology differently. Places like China or india in a way skipped most of the PC/Laptop phase and went straight to smartphones as their main device to access everything.
And on a PC/Laptop you’ll access most things through a browser. And i think even to this day many will prefer to do some things on a larger screen rather than a smartphone, even if by now it is the primary device.
akilou@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
How do you get the everything app in the first place if you don’t have an app store?
cyd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also, everyone is locked into using credit cards.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 year ago
The idea of an everything app (AKA Superapp) is that all of it’s features are interoperable. The OS doesn’t do anything except provide an environment for apps to run.