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Elon Musk ’s X has already declared it aims to compete with LinkedIn for job listings and PayPal for defrayment . Now , it require to take on the likes of Zoom , Google Meet and Microsoft Teams with a video conferencing tool .
One of X ’s employee , Chris Park , posted last week that the company had its first home group discussion through the tool . Park claimed that initial feedback from the team was strong , and the company will belike ferment on feature article like the ability to immobilize speakers and better notification to indicate mass joining or get out .
X owner Elon Muskrespondedto the C. W. Post with a flame emoji , which is the closest thing to prescribed confirmation now that X no longer responds to press inquiries under Musk ’s leadership .
First ever 𝕏 Conference meeting with some of my great@Xand@XDevelopersteammates . Already a really strong alternative to Google Hangouts , Zoom , AWS Chime , and certainly … Microsoft Teams 🤠 Minimal feedback that is likely number : – better vis or notification when someone…pic.twitter.com/FJ252w6m4C
An app research worker , who goes byP4muion the platform , showed that user will be able to make fresh meetings directly from the iOS app , either instantly or scheduled for later , like to other online conferencing puppet .
Vous allez également pouvoir créer une conférence en cherchant l’option par ici sur iOS — X 10.56Hey@xDaily@HXMnCKhttps://t.co / bOIjT4rxgwpic.twitter.com / QsKyuio6Zl
Another app researcher , Nima Owji , pointed out that the conference lineament may earmark hosts to go under a singular code for each coming together that participants have to accede while joining .
BREAKING : Each X Conference will have a unique code that you could share with people to let them join!pic.twitter.com / ZSOYb40QjH
Like many feature of speech teases on the Musk - owned platform , the group discussion function does not have a well-defined acquittance engagement or rollout architectural plan yet .
Notably , X already allows live video streaming through its Spaces product . Tools like Zoom and Google Meet allow users to switch between video conferencing and seminar - dash streaming . So it wo n’t be surprising if ecstasy merges both production .
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It ’s also deserving keeping a close spotter on how the political program goes about launch the feature . Earlier this year , when X set up the calling feature , the societal internet sprain it on for everyone by nonremittal . Plus , there were privacy issues , such asno default IP address masking shelter .
Before X makes the group discussion feature available for all user , it need to take a close look at privacy and security department controller .
