NEW DELHI: Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Friday mentioned that he plans to discontinue his cellphone quantity and use solely social media platform X for messages, audio and video calls.
“In a number of months, I’ll discontinue my cellphone quantity and solely use X for texts and audio/video calls,” Musk wrote on X.
Musk’s transfer is seen as an effort to advertise the audio and video calling capabilities of X. These options had been initially launched in October of final yr. Since then, Musk has been actively pushing for X to change into an all-encompassing app.
Final yr, the app launched a preliminary model of its audio and video calling performance, which was made out there to pick out customers.
Final month, the microblogging platform rolled out the characteristic to make audio and video calls straight from the app for Android customers.
Reacting to Musk’s put up, a number of customers shared their ideas.
“Elon in 2027 – I’m not utilizing my cellphone to textual content or for audio visible. I’m utilizing my brainwaves and neural flonk hyperlink 47.2,” a person wrote.
“Will or not it’s encrypted or will the alphabet businesses be listening,” one other person mentioned.
Yet another person talked about, “The place will you obtain OTPs for financial institution transactions?”.
In the meantime, X has topped Apple’s App Retailer charts when it comes to downloads.
“X is now the #1 most downloaded app of any form!,” Musk posted.
