{"id":504182,"date":"2023-08-14T14:29:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T12:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=504182"},"modified":"2023-08-14T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T12:40:00","slug":"twitter-working-on-video-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/504182-twitter-working-on-video-calls.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter working on video calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>X (formerly Twitter) CEO Linda Yaccarino has announced that the company is working on adding video call support.<\/p>\n<p>The feature will let users make video calls to others through the platform&#8217;s direct messages, and it won&#8217;t require the user&#8217;s phone number to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You look at video, and soon you&#8217;ll be able to make video chat calls without having to give your phone number to anyone on the platform,&#8221; Yaccarino said during an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/08\/10\/x-corp-ceo-linda-yaccarino-says-she-has-autonomy-under-elon-musk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a><\/strong> with CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the platform had added several features since Elon Musk&#8217;s acquisition of the company, including long-form videos, articles, and the ability to subscribe to creators.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Conway, a designer at X, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ehikian\/status\/1677300820780503040?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hinted at video calling<\/a><\/strong> in early July 2023 when she posted screenshots of the feature with the caption &#8220;ring ring&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The screenshots include a direct message between users, with a phone icon visible in the top right-hand corner.<\/p>\n<p>She also shared an image of a fullscreen video call.<\/p>\n<p>In further posts, Conway assured her followers that users would be able to adjust video call settings to limit who can call them.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/504078-big-lie-about-alleged-elon-musk-childhood-photo-taken-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Big lie about alleged Elon Musk childhood photo taken in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter users will be able to video call others through the platform&#8217;s direct messages feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":501734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[11373,86231,405,64416,41650],"class_list":["post-504182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-elon-musk","tag-linda-yaccarino","tag-twitter","tag-video-calls","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504268,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504182\/revisions\/504268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}