Elon Musk was inspired by a new idea to launch a mysterious application called “X”, through which he aspires to be a very similar application to the Chinese application “WeChat”.
After announcing that the Twitter acquisition would go ahead, Musk tweeted that buying the Twitter platform would accelerate the creation of “App X,” which would be an app for everything.
Elon Musk’s revitalized $ 44 billion deal to buy Twitter has ignited the debate over what the US billionaire will do with the social media platform.
Musk could allude to so-called “super-apps” popular in China by the likes of Chinese tech giant Tencent.
Super applications is a term to describe an application that often acts as a one stop shop for all your needs from ordering a taxi or food via the application and at the same time works as a payment and messaging application at the same time , and this eliminates the need for multiple applications for different functions.
The Chinese app WeChat, by Tencent, is the largest “super” app in the world, with over a billion users.
Musk tries to reach the number of Twitter users to at least one billion users, up from 237.8 million at the moment.
The Tesla and SpaceX owner previously expressed his admiration for WeChat during a meeting with Twitter employees last June. “I think there is an opportunity to make it happen,” he said. You mainly live on Wechat in China because it is very useful for your daily life. And I think if we can achieve this goal, or even close to that with Twitter, it will be a huge success. “
Musk thinks it will be interesting to include payments within Twitter.
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