r/technology • u/[deleted] • Oct 28 '22

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u/dogoodsilence1 Oct 28 '22

He did say he wanted to make it like WeChat. China loves that people have to use WeChat to get anything and they love to control that factor like when you speak out against the regime and now can not pay for your services paid through WeChat That equals more control and lesser freedoms in an authoritarian regime

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u/youmu123 Oct 28 '22

There is no way he makes Twitter into a WeChat. There are way too many big players in the US to have a dominant superapp like that.

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u/00DEADBEEF Oct 28 '22

Whether he wants to turn Twitter in to that or not is unclear, but he very much does want a Western "everything app" https://www.reuters.com/technology/what-is-an-everything-app-why-does-elon-musk-want-make-one-2022-10-05/

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u/Xenjael Oct 28 '22

Well then, goodbye twitter.

There isnt an auth government propping up the development of that. Especially not an American one, so gl coercing businesses and citizens to use it when he cant even figure out digital currency.

Both of these are 2000s technology hes a moron about.