Twitter’s new feature also encrypts messages at the conversation level, not each individual message. That means that if a malicious actor gained unauthorized access to the keys, they could view the ...

Something was very wrong with Twitter Wednesday afternoon, but it’s not clear exactly what. For several hours, core features, including direct messages and tweets, were not working for large swaths of ...

Using Twitter has been a wild ride for the past couple of months, with updates and changes coming constantly. With the latest updates to Twitter for Android and iOS, the option to send a direct ...

Twitter users who want to encrypt their direct messages will now finally have a shot, though there are a few conditions and constraints that may get in your way. Twitter itself announced the new ...

As Twitter fends off new competition from Instagram Threads, the company today announced a change designed to cut down on spam in users’ inboxes. Starting “as soon as” July 14, Twitter will introduce ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter launched encrypted messaging Wednesday, offering select users the ability to communicate more securely. But its new service is much more of a baby step than a giant leap ...

Twitter is aiming to impose yet another restriction that seems designed to force people to pay money for a Twitter Blue subscription. On Friday, a tweet from Twitter support announced that unverified ...

Twitter said only Twitter Blue subscribers can use text messages to secure accounts from March 20. Text message two-factor authentication was being "abused" by "bad actors," the company said. A ...

Twitter users have patiently awaited encrypted direct messaging ever since Elon Musk ushered it to the front of his wishlist of changes when buying Twitter in 2022. Only this past March did we hear ...

As promised by Twitter CEO and owner Elon Musk, encrypted direct messaging on Twitter has arrived. But is it any good? In a word, no. The good news: at least Twitter is honest about it. Echoing Musk's ...

Twitter announced Friday that users who do not subscribe to Twitter Blue will soon have to give up using text messages as a two-factor authentication method to secure their accounts. The social media ...

Twitter’s direct messages have always been a security liability. The DMs you send to friends and internet strangers aren’t end-to-end encrypted, making your conversations potentially accessible if ...