The new immediate communications application XChat under the Mask flag, after many days of delay, has been officially online at the iOS end in recent days. XChat supports users and X contacts in the delivery of information, document sharing, voice and video calls, and group chats as a communications application from X (formerly Twitter).
XChat began testing a small number of users earlier this year to gather their feedback on new experiences. XChat is a key component of the strategic vision of the company, which views social networking as a springboard for other services, such as instant communications and online payments. The company is testing the application of payment services, which has not yet been made public. The fact that X separated part of the platform’s functionality as an independent application is a departure from Mask’s long-standing plan to achieve “one-size-fits-all” with the idea that X would be a one-stop platform for a collection of communications, payments, content creation, shopping, artificial intelligence. By contrast, Mask’s A.I.A.X.A. (X is XAI’s A.I.C., and XAI’s is under SpaceX) now provides a much richer application so that its services reach more consumers.
XChat currently supports news and telephone functions, as well as other functions that are allegedly protected by privacy, including editing and deleting information about everyone in the chat, burning on reading and blocking screens. X claims that there is no advertising or tracking mechanism in the application. XChat also stressed that all messages were encrypted and PIN code protected (security experts had previously questioned the company’s encryption).
Security experts warned potential users of XChat during his first test that XChat seemed less secure than other encrypted messages such as Signal. Today, as XChat becomes widely available, it needs to be reassessed by security experts to confirm whether its security has improved. In addition to providing private and group chat functions, XChat will replace X as a new platform. The communities of X are closed down due to low usage and widespread waste information. Against this background, community members may move to XChat, leading to an increase in early downloads.
According to Chief Designer X Benji Taylor, XChat appears to have more plans to update. He revealed that the application “is only the beginning of everything we built for instant communication”.