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I thought it was quite well-understood that Musk has a long-term plan to turn Twitter into "the WeChat of the West", a centralized identity/payment platform, li
by adamrezich 4y ago
I thought it was quite well-understood that Musk has a long-term plan to turn Twitter into "the WeChat of the West", a centralized identity/payment platform, likely in the form of x.com?
- gary_0 4y agoSure, and he also has long-term plans to build a Tesla autonomous android, and a SpaceX Mars colony. I wish him the best of luck, but I'm not going to put money on any of those plans succeeding any time soon.
- adamrezich 4y agoof those three things, turning Twitter into WeChat seems by far the most plausible, achievable, marketable, sustainable, and profitable—so, what point are you trying to make here?
- dvngnt_ 4y agoI highly doubt twitter will be the wechat of the west. I don't think any app would be that at least for america for cultural/political reasons
- LiquidSky 4y agoThe way he's been running Twitter, at this point a Mars colony does seem more likely. It hasn't just been erratic but actively buffoonish. The "plan" seems to be whatever whim he has day-to-day, made infinitely worse by his seemingly 24/7 capering on Twitter himself.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoI think a "WeChat of the West" is possible. But it sure as hell won't be with a company owned by Elon Musk. Google is the closest we've seen to it, and a lot of tech people would certainly reject Google trying to be WeChat.