came to terms on a sale, Musk put his plan on blast, and even gave his vision for a super-app a name: X.Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app“Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app,” he said.
And there it is: Quite possibly the real reason Musk threw down $44 billion for the social-media app. If Musk were to pull such a thing off, notions of freeing the platform from censorship and spam accounts will seem utterly quaint by comparison.
An American WeChat – minus the government spying, let’s hope – would be significantly more influential (and profitable) than a barely functioning social-media platform from the mid-2000s.
And, as if to fit the Musk business portfolio’s degree-of-difficulty standards, it will be no easy task.WeChat was released in 2011 as an instant-messaging service, became the world’s largest app in 2018, and metastasized into a one-stop platform for every kind of messaging, video-conferencing, location, gaming, ride-sharing, photo-sharing (and many, many more) functions now necessary to everyday life in China.
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