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Elon Musk is taking the X Chat app into the main battleground to rival WhatsApp and Snapchat with the platform now operating outside of the X app for users. The beta version of X Chat is now available for iOS users with the Android avatar of X Chat expected to release soon. <\/span><\/p>\n

The company has limited its reach to 1000 users which got filled in just two hours of going live, and the platform will expand its testing to around 5,000 users soon. Going standalone with X Chat suggests Musk and Co are not confident about the performance and stability of the app which will be looking to entice people with a slew of features that others also have.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Musk has talked about making X into an everything app for a few years with messaging, payment and other features built into one platform. And taking X Chat standalone could enable that mission with more impetus and quality of the app available to the users. The concept of a Super app has existed in limited regions and Musk probably feels that getting X Chat working on its own might be an extra app for users but if they offer the right incentive people might lap it up for their use. <\/span><\/p>\n

He claims X Chat offers better security and privacy than WhatsApp but recently those claims were quashed by his own platform X where you can post Community notes to debunk misinformation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Musk urged users to stop using WhatsApp, claiming the messaging service was not secure, and instead promoted X Chat as a safer alternative. \u201cWhatsApp is not secure. Even Signal is questionable. Use X Chat,” Musk wrote in a post on X.<\/span><\/p>\n

His post was later accompanied by a Community Notes clarification, which said Musk\u2019s claim was misleading. The note pointed out that while X Chat offers end-to-end encryption, it lacks forward secrecy, meaning a compromised key could expose past messages. It also said private keys are controlled by X and protected only by a four-digit PIN, while metadata is collected. By contrast, the note added, Signal offers forward secrecy, device-only keys and minimal metadata.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As for the X Chat app, we still have some questions about its own privacy standards and support for voice and video calls that are still in development. <\/span><\/p>\n

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