India, April 16 -- X (formerly Twitter) is planning to discontinue the Direct Messages (DMs) feature, claimed Zach Warunek, who identifies himself as a software engineer with 24.8K followers on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.

The claim has led to rumours that the new feature, which will replace DMs, will be called 'XChat'.

Taking to X on April 16, Warunek wrote, "The whole entire DM's will be gone soon", confirming a massive change in how users will communicate privately on the Elon Musk-owned X platform.

Warunek's reaction comes in response to a query concerning the message requests feature.

Expressing both shock and surprise, one X user replied: "I see. Exciting to see what will replace it hehe."

"so no more message requ...