X adds video calling — and lets strangers ring you: Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up::Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up
An “Everything App” is just an operating system.
You nailed it, he wants to create OS X.
Sold on his very own special X boxes.
OS X already exists…it’s just renamed to macOS these days
I’m pretty sure that was the joke
Well it’s hard to tell sarcasm online, especially when no steps to convey tone or articulation have been added to the text formatting.
I apologize, in the future I will demarcate all jokes with XML
joketags.
Headline: “let’s anyone you follow potentially call you up”
Article: “To be able to call someone, they must have sent at least one direct message to your account.”
This makes total sense. Your DM conversation has too much back and forth so you say “let’s take it to an audio or video call”, and then hash it out in person.
There’s a reason Slack has this exact same feature…
I think the problem here is there’s no prior consent. If you’ve DM’d someone in the past, they can now call you. Twitter never had video call before, and the people who use it never expected to be giving consent for a video call maybe even several years later.
The system means that all accounts are liable to receive calls from accounts you follow, or those run by people whose number you have in your address book. To be able to call someone, they must have sent at least one direct message to your account.
You’re not going to get phone calls from just any rando.
You’re right. Cause I deleted that app months ago.
“They must have sent one DM” - so any rando that has sent an unwelcome DM can follow it with a call?
To be able to call someone, they must have sent at least one direct message to your account.
Emphasis mine.
To me, it seems like it means that for me to be able to call you, you need to send me at least one DM AND be following me. So, in essence, any rando that you folllow and have previously sent a DM to can call you.
That’s my interpretation. If you follow someone, and have sent them a message previously, it’s a reasonable assumption you want to talk to them.
