The waters are choppy on Twitter. You could say more turmoil than ever, so the stream of news is constant, even if it is more focused on controversy and company leadership than on what it offers users. However, there is progress in this regard as well.

Specifically, they exist a few features that have been on the table for a while more or less popular requests, and now, and who says now says that in the near future, could become a reality: encryption in direct messages and long messages, or a little longer than they are at present.

Starting with the first feature, it’s not a very widespread request, but it’s a lot of time behind it: end-to-end encryption in direct messages, which are sent privately from user to user. The reason for their interest is obvious: Twitter is a platform through which information flows, and having secure and private contact channels integrated into the service itself, is an attractive addition for activists, journalists or simply any user.

In fact, Elon Musk himself has long flagged this feature as a desirable requirement: “Twitter DMs must have end-to-end encryption like Signal so no one can eavesdrop or hack their messages,” he said… via his Twitter account, of course.

Well, according to let know Analyst Jane Manchun Wong, after examining the code of development versions of the Twitter Android app, and briefly even Musk himself, acknowledged that end-to-end encryption for direct messages is already on the way.

From three quarters, the same thing happened with the character limit and one of the hallmarks of the social network, which was doubled from the original 140 characters, the so-called 240 current characters, which do not appear to be experiencing growth as such. No: this limit is maintained, but writing long messages will be easier.

How? What was said: making it easier to write long messages or like beforehand also Wong after confirmation without further details from Musk, so “it The Twitter composer will automatically expand to a thread when the character count approaches the 280″ limit. It had been a year, one might add.

All of this doesn’t detract from everything else, but it does at least introduce practical changes that many Twitter users have been dying to see for years.