Messaging on Twitter is about to become a lot more private. According to the company's CEO and overlord Elon Musk, Twitter is launching "version 1.0" of encrypted direct messaging on Thursday.

Twitter is dead. Almost exactly a year ago ... it kind of makes me loath to ever open my messages ever again, to say nothing of the hidden, deeper "Additional Messages" folder, which is wall ...

Twitter made a big shake-up to tweets back in November 2015, replacing the "Favorite" button with the "Like" heart. Now it's making another: Introducing a whole-new Direct Message button.