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So WeChat does this: > text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, video conferencing, video games, mobile payment, sharin
by Renaud 3y ago
So WeChat does this:
> text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, video conferencing, video games, mobile payment, sharing of photographs and videos and location sharing.[1]
Twitter does public messaging and DMs, but is not a chat platform and doesn't have any of the other features of WeChat.
To become a SuperApp, X will need a lot of additional features: X will need enough features to both convince new users to join the platform AND keep them using it for most of their daily needs. That would mean Twitter would need to replace WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram when people want to chat with friends and businesses.
That would require a lot of new Twitter users! Twitter is noisy, but quite small for a social media.
Based on the track record of Twitter acquisition and subsequent changes, I don't see how Elon is going to massively increase the user base to have enough critical mass to make this happen.
Wechat is successful and became a de-facto "everything app" in great part because it's extremely useful to the Chinese government as a way to monitor and control its populace.
[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat
- wraptile 3y agoThe obsession with WeChat's success is honestly disturbing. Even if that would work in the west nobody actually wants that, right? Anecdotally, in Japan and SEA we have Line which tries to be an everything and fails everything but the messaging itself because individual components are simply better elsewhere. AFAIK it's losing market to Whatsapp and Telegram pretty badly these days too. Launching a different app is not that much more difficult than going to a different window within an app. It's almost like we already have everything apps in the form of app stores and web browsers huh!
- kayxspre 3y agoI have seen a lot of complaints from those who used (or is obligated to use) LINE at work, particularly the inability to retain anything in the chat for more than 7 days (except if it is saved in the Album for that chat or Keep), meaning that it's very difficult to keep track of all previous conversations and files. They said "LINE is anything but a good Chat App", and I fully concur. I recall that LINE's infrastructure wasn't built for multi-device use, and since the focus is needed for reliability, the underlying infrastructure wasn't touched or improved. There is a session at LINE Dev Day 2019 [1] that addressed this issue, though I still don't see much progress ever since [1] https://linedevday.linecorp.com/jp/2019/sessions/A1-2/ https://linedevday.linecorp.com/jp/2019/sessions/A1-2/
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