End-To-End Encryption for Twitter's Direct Messaging Service

A security researcher has discovered that Twitter may be planning to add end-to-end encryption to its messaging service. The researcher, Jane Manchun Wong, made the information public in a series of tweets that revealed details of the new features still under development. One of the changes that is coming is the removal of the "source" field. This is the section beneath every tweet that tells what kind of device was used to post the tweet. It's not clear why this feature is being removed, but it may be because it reduces clutter. Jane Manchun Wong tweeted about a possible upcoming feature for Twitter's Direct Messaging service: end-to-end encryption. She posted a screenshot of the evidence along with her tweet. Lea Kissner, the former Twitter Chief Information Security Officer, shared her observations about possible pitfalls associated with the feature. Among her concerns was the possibility of abuse on a non-phone-number-based network. Twitter is aiming to block illegal videos uploaded by cyberstalkers and creeps in South Korea by working on a media warning. This should help with the issue of people being targeted by cyberstalking. It will be interesting to see how they can roll it out with the reduced workforce. The team may be able to use the reduced number of staff to make it easier for users to have multiple devices available to the server. They could also use end-to-end encryption to prevent the server from adding devices.

(source: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/new-twitter-features-leak/471468/)