What has Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter (now X) been up to lately? Among other things, creating experimental little projects, like a new private messenger that doesn’t need the internet to function.

Jack Dorsey, the former Twitter CEO, has launched a new messaging app that does not rely on the internet. Called Bitchat, the app uses Bluetooth to let people send messages directly to one another. It is designed to keep working even when internet access is blocked,

Bitchat differs from apps like Meta's WhatsApp and Messenger, operating entirely peer-to-peer with no accounts, user identifiers, or data collection