Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of X (formerly Twitter), Tesla, and SpaceX, announced the launch of a new messaging application called XChat on Sunday. According to Jin10, the app features end-to-end encryption, no advertisements, and no tracking. XChat has undergone nearly a year of testing and iteration since its initial beta testing in May 2025. This development comes almost four years after Musk acquired Twitter in 2022 with the ambition of creating a Western version of WeChat.