Social media users of X (formerly Twitter) are panicking after an engineer at the company casually revealed that the platform's direct messaging system will soon be completely removed.
Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter in late 2022 and rebranded it as "X," the platform has undergone a slew of controversial changes, from removing verification badges to shifting toward a subscription-based model. Over time, many legacy features have been altered or deprecated, frustrating long-time users who feel the app is drifting away from its original purpose.
