Users of X (formerly Twitter) on Android devices can now make phone calls and video calls from the platform.
According to observations from Bellagionailsinc.com on Tuesday (23/1), X users on Android will receive a pop-up notification when opening the application, stating “Audio and Video calls are here” at the bottom.
Users will then be directed to open the settings section to manage who can contact them via voice calls or video calls.
“We are releasing a new way to communicate on X, Audio and Video Calls. Audio and Video Calls are now available on iOS and Android,” X writes on its help page.
X explains that all users can receive phone calls, but only premium users can make calls.
Users can set who can call them from the Direct Messages or DM settings.
“To be able to contact other users, they must have sent you a Direct Message at least once before,” writes X.
Users must enable push notifications to receive calls in the X app on Android devices.
Here’s how to make a phone call or video call in the X app:
- Click on the envelope icon. You will be directed to your messages.
- Click on an existing DM conversation or start a new conversation.
- Click on the phone icon, from there you can:
- Click on Audio Call to start an audio call
- Click on Video Call to start a video call
5. The account you are calling will receive a notification that you are calling them, and if they don’t answer, they will receive a notification that they missed a call.
During a call, you can do several things, from tapping the audio icon to put the call on speaker; muting or silencing the microphone by tapping the microphone icon; to ending the call by tapping the X button.
These calls are said to have good security, which is enabled by default. This enhanced call privacy is a new setting on X that helps protect user privacy.
By enabling this setting, your IP address will be hidden from the person calling and receiving the call.
In particular, if both parties making the call disable this setting (which is the default setting), after the server facilitates the initial setup, the call itself is redirected peer-to-peer, so the IP address of each party can be seen by the other party.
However, if one party enables this setting, the call between them will be routed through the X infrastructure, and the IP address of whichever party enables this setting will be hidden.
