Elon Musk has had enough of people calling him, well, on his cell phone.
The billionaire claims he is going to disconnect his phone number and only use texts and video calls on X (Twitter). The move appears to be a bid to promote new features of the social media platform, which he bought for $44 billion in 2022.
However, it means other accounts who also pay for the premium version of X will be able to call Elon Musk as well.
The SpaceX owner tweeted on Thursday night: “In a few months, I will discontinue my phone number and only use X for texts and audio/video calls.”
Fans had fun with his post, as one wrote: “Elon Musk in 2027: I am no longer using my phone to text or for audio visual. I am using my brainwaves and neural flonk link 47.2.”
But a second was concerned: “Can only people you follow call you?”
And a third echoed: “Will it be encrypted or will the alphabet agencies be listening?!”
The company began rolling out audio and video calls last year, and all users will be able to receive calls, and only paid subscribers can actually make them. Also, the calling service doesn’t appear to be encrypted, like other messaging apps, say Apple’s FaceTime or WhatsApp, owned by Meta.
X has said it’ll offer a setting ‘enhanced call privacy’ to help ‘protect privacy’ by hiding the IP addresses of callers from each other. Although it’ll have to be actively enabled within the app settings.
The celebrity has attempted to promote the new service multiple times since it was released. It comes after the Tesla founder said he wanted to turn X into an app that does “everything”.
It comes days after TV star Piers Morgan revealed Elon Musk cancelled an interview with him last minute. Apparently, the dad-of-11 told Piers he had “lost respect” for him and cancelled it two days beforehand.
Elon Musk told Ben Shapiro on his segment on TalkTV: “I was two days away from getting on a plane from Los Angeles to Austin in Texas to do it,” He explained Musk saw a clip he had seen of a different interview and didn’t want to talk to him.
“He said that he’d lost all respect for me and the interview was cancelled.”
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