Linda Yaccarino, CEO of social media platform X, confirmed in an interview that users of X will soon be able to make video calls.

Soon it will be possible to make video calls via X. The CEO of the renewed social media platform explained this in one go interview for the American news channel CNBC.

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Both CEO Yaccarino and owner Elon Musk have often drawn the comparison to a global market when it comes to X. They want to transform the platform into an app that contains everything a person needs digitally All app in her words. Video calls are just part of it. This includes, for example, payment options.

It’s not yet clear how far along the platform is with these plans, but it’s a current plan post by X designer Andrea Conway doesn’t leave much to the imagination. She claims she called someone on the platform. According to Yaccarino, you should never exchange phone numbers in order to use the function.

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The question may not be whether video calls are coming to X, but rather whether they are necessary. The big names dominate the professional market, smaller platforms are now being shut down and WhatsApp is no small player for people.

It will also be interesting to see what conditions come with this feature: do people have to follow each other, for example, or can you try to call accounts at random? Additionally, paying users are several notches up the Social X ladder, so it remains to be seen if video calling will be available to everyone.

It is the umpteenth announced innovation for X. A trend that began with the takeover of the company, which was still called Twitter at the time, by the tech all-rounder Musk. Some announcements have been cancelled, certain decisions quickly reversed, it is far from certain that this plan will become a reality. Regarding video, the platform offers its paying users the possibility to upload videos up to two hours long, which has been maintained in any case.