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Is TikTok trying to become Musk's vision for X? Social media, music, shopping, I sense a finance branch is soon to follow...

• herculity275 3y ago
  Both are inspired by WeChat.
• PurpleRamen 3y ago
  No, TikTok is just bringing the features from Chinese platforms to the west. And so does Elon too.
  • bilekas 3y ago
    Isn't the parent company of TikTok Chinese ? If so, wouldn't it make the business model the natural progression ?
    • daniel_iversen 3y ago
      Yes, ByteDance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance
    • PurpleRamen 3y ago
      Yes, TikTok was created by the Chinese company Bytedance, by merging their own app with another Chinese app which was popular in the USA. But I'm not sure whether it could be called natural progression just because of its origin. It's a natural direction of progress for all social media-services. I mean home shopping-TV and sellout-parties with your friends and neighbors are quite common in USA too. And this is just a version of this for the digital space, in which Chinese apps have more experience and success at the moment.
• WhereIsTheTruth 3y ago
  How come people are coming up to this erroneous conclusion? Twitter has no chance, it's too politized, it doesn't attract the youth Is it because the press likes to demonize TikTok so people never heard of WeChat? Musk literally said he wants to copy WeChat https://streamable.com/m7c2hh https://streamable.com/m7c2hh
  • piva00 3y ago
    I'm very aware that he is literally trying to copy WeChat, my comment was quite facetious but that is probably lost through text.
• ketchupdebugger 3y ago
  Instagram already has shopping, messaging, social media etc. I think this is more just getting parity to existing competitors.
• boringg 3y ago
  Tech companies need to move into new markets to keep growing revenue streams. Seems only logical.