Twitter likely working on encrypted direct messaging service

Thanks to Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal, data privacy has become a buzz words in recent times. While the social media giant is still trying to deal with the aftermath of the scandal by distracting users into focussing on other products and services, Twitter is reportedly working on a "Secret" feature that would make the micro-blogging a lot safer for sensitive conversations.

According to a report by TechCrunch, Twitter is working on a "Secret conversation" option, which when launched would allows users to send WhatsApp-like end-to-end encrypted direct messages to each other. The feature was first spotted inside Twitter's Android package by a third party developer, Jane Manchun Wong, who also spotted the Avatar feature on Facebook's Android package.

Not much is known about the feature right now. However, from the image that Wong has shared, there is a new option to start a secret conversation and verify the encryption keys of the recipient. At this point it remains unclear when Twitter will unveil this feature publicly.