As a Chinese myself, been using WeChat since 2012 . It's just a chat app. Other apps are not WeChat . They are third-party apps that can be accessed inside WeChat but they're not WeChat

It makes sense, Musk has experience in a Google Maps like app and payment Systems like PayPal. He just bought twitter for the brand and the userbase and the fact that there was no real competition for twitter (no where to run) because twitter was so unprofitable.

Elon dreaming and ignoring the reality and people believe in him. And then watch the latest WSJ investigations and videos about the car crash when the famous autopilot fsd crashed into a standing police car on the highway with a sleeping driver. Tesla rejects any further informations while the videos and anlysis showed how crazy stupid Elons idea is in 2023 announced to be operational in 2020. And this will not be the last incident and situation his AI is stupid based on human judgement cause a human, that is not drunk or sleeping, would have instantly stopped if he sees a flashing police car. What else do you need to raise the attention - unless you are Elons AI and drive like a drunk into the police car injuring 5 who are now going to court. Strange , that victims of Elons crap have to go to court and his famous Tesla brand is not going forward to excuse for all the hurts caused by tesla. Of cause not, tesla is innoncent if things go wrong, it was the drivers fault. Really, in a world of AI learning the whole Tesla fleet has seen a standing and flashing police car for the very first time ? Then it might be time to stop such adventures on publich roads and stop the whole Tesla autopilot due to missing abilities and proofs that it is not ripe or ready for public streats. They do not pay, they do not take care, they take foreigners life as their commodity, can even kill others and will blame the car owner. He is a constant lier, he has gotten beaten by the tiny car manufacturer he had laughed about that this would not be a competition in 2014 even though Warren Buffet had invested 800 million $. Now BYD is market leader in the world and making even more profits and has a higher growth rate than Elons Teslas. At least BYD is honest and is not talking about autopilot or fsd, but features they have implemented and that are working. Twitter is dead since Elon arrived and now with the lower advertiser revenues he has to find new ways to raise the value of the company which otherwise would be dead. Now X becomes a warehous, from everything a bit to make profits without ad growth needed instead of being the expert of 135 letters like in the past.

If 40 million users each get 3 friends to join, that's 160 million users 😁

With the blocking of news on Facebook and Google in Canada in response to federal legislation, might this not be an opportunity for Musk and X to embrace the Canadian model and make a buck off of it? Twitter is already a platform people use for sharing news articles and engaging other users regarding the topic of the shared articles. People don't want to dish out multiple tens of dollars for news subscription but X could act like a cable company offering a package to be accessed through its platform with articles being shared with other users and discussion started within the platform.

And also crazy political claims on Trump, Putin, China and so on. For most of the people I know, including me, we totally lost trust on him because of that.

​@@corvomicheleEven semi-conservative normies i know think that guy is an idiot.

you use amazon because you trust jeff bezos? if some seller on amazon scams you, will you say oh I trust jeff he automatically give my money back, If yes then I trust Elon!

yes, completely lose respect, the guy is a big man-child, and not in a good way. he shown us again and again, when he was defeated instead of owning his mistake like a man , he would resort to insult, bully, making a meme out of them. not to mention people still remember his financial scam till this day

He made a rocket and called it a success if we ignore that it exploded mid air. That gives me 0 confidence.

These super apps seem like a way to keep an eye on everyone easier

Yeah but honestly for the user its super convinient.

​@@MiniKodjoYeah everyone uses either apple or Google accounts, and we all know Google listens to your microphone, tracks you, sells your into, they do all that without being a convenient super app lmao

Every feature is a new point of vulnerability and it's the CEOs not the code monkeys pushing these lifestyle apps for a reason.

I LOVE the idea, I HATE the implementation. The most famous superapps I know are WeChat and Weibo, both of which are fruit of China's intranet. On purpose or not, they are THE most important tools used by the CCP. The fact that the few times a "superapp" tried to get here were by the hands of questionable companies or people (Mark, Elon and Jeff), I know very well about their intentions: information monopoly! It kinda hurts that standing in the autism spectrum means that unifying things in a single site/app helps management a lot, but I'd rather deal with it than risk massive breeches in privacy LMAO

Anyone who ever trusted twitter is a twit. Elon has improved some of it, but he's like polishing a turd. (And changing the name to Z was the worst marketing of all time. Proper nouns cannot only be one letter.)

so true

Twitter is the app most trusted by Nazis and there are a lot of those. If Musk made Nazipay it would be very successful.

Within the first couple months of him buying the site, I unlinked my Twitter from everything else I cared about because of security concerns caused by his firing everybody with any competence. He also just has a long history of lies and broken promises. He's been saying Tesla's full self driving has been "ready" for how many years now? And it's pretty evident that Tesla is actually at the back of the pack for that tech.

@@WobblyBits_X Name one specific example of a "security concern" that was caused by Elon firing all the corrupt woketard losers, or "everybody with any competence" as you dishonestly mis-label them. Elon has his faults, but firing all the vile toxic idealogues from Twitter was not one of them. It would be better to have no internet at all than the pre-Elon twitter. You're just angry that the Twitter "fact-checkers" are no longer corrupt enough to promote your most extreme far-left position every single time.

I always saw Twitter as a stock app. It's value was 100% in it's name. I laughed my ass off when Elon changed it's value to nothing just by changing the name.

Yeah, Twitter is tiny. Its user count is barely larger than Pinterest. Yet to the people who live on it like Elon, it's their entire world. I guess that's why he decided to forgo doing due diligence before signing the papers to buy the company.

Nepo babies are in constant fear of being found out to be the frauds that they are. Elon is no exception, and we all see it.

we chat was installed on those phones by government demand / law / policy its not "popular"....its forced

that's not true, wechat was a very popular chat app in the early '10s already, much like imessage in the US, if you didn't have it, you missed out on social life with friends@@kazzxtrismus

Agreed, however, with one caveat, “as long as you have a choice”. Luckily we do but am not so sure about China.

Billions have already agreed to have Facebook or Google house all their data... they track and record EVERYTHING

Google exists

That's literally the main reason WeChat exists, as a central point for the CCP to spy on its users

​@@upampatra33 You can use Apple

I think innovators changes I'll entire heads around technology and what's possible. Who would've thought we would have mobile computers in the size of I'll palm while connected to the interwebs.

@@riverjustice not every country tolerates monopolies. wechat only works because it's de facto owned by the chinese government.

With the right API and enough incentive like a marketplace for services with comission you could thrust the use. Why bother with paypal when you have Credit Cards ?

Exactly. It may work in the US like how iMessage dominates but it doesn't anywhere else.

@@riverjustice Even if that's true, Elon Musk isn't an innovator he's a loser.

That makes no sense at all, he is not the CEO of Twitter and he's building multiple technologies to achieve the Everything App...stop making nonsense up it's ridiculous. Wait for the app upgrades/products to be released then judge rather than mindless nonsense.

He has to pretend like it was all part of some plan and not the result of making a ludicrous bid based on a 'funny number' (5*4.20* per share), which was so above the odds on what the company was actually worth that the board legally had to accept as their first duty is towards their shareholders. You'd think for a 'business genius' he'd have been aware of that, it's literally business 101! This is the first time the world has been able to see how he runs a company without a group of handlers, as at Tesla and SpaceX, to stop him constantly doing reckless and stupid things and the results aren't pretty

That's the price you pay for being Mr Cool with a big mouth... That's one screw up that costed him $30 Billion loss. 🤦‍♀️

@@Thinking858 You really are small minded, money has little meaning to Musk. Achieving his dream of the Everything App is another concern entirely. Because you are not worth 250billion you try to see from a view of loss because you can't comprehend the figures. He's buying the userbase and data which as with all Musk's companies long term become absolute giants. It's okay to understand some people are not in your level, insults are small minded and arbitrary.

​@@Lee-fc3yfMusk isn't gonna shag you, pal

But that wouldn’t give him any opportunities to stroke his ego

@@Gloomdrake true

Tesla and his Space companies succeed not because of his actions but because he has brilliant people working for him who let these companies succeed despite Musk's actions.

And taking advantage of government subsidies@@Suksass

really he has two separate goals for Twitter. one is turn it into a super app and the other is to turn it into a free speech thunderdome for far-right extremists. the second goal of catering to far right extremists seems to be the goal which is much more important to elan. it's pretty easy to tell where he's putting all his energy.

Twitter/X is doing fine wdym?

@@Gabzilla19 So many basic features are broken it's almost funny... You can't even scroll up to view the previous tweets in a thread...

@@bryanleebmy Twitter is broken, can't even search half the time. Only see old tweets unless u scroll for like 10 times. Have a permanent prompt on DMs saying messages not available at the moment.

@@Gabzilla19 Oh, like how the site is completely busted if you’re not logged in and doesn’t show posts past a few months ago? Or how he caused the site to DDoS itself through poorly thought out ways of enforcing a “tweet view quota”? Shit man, did they ever fix text based 2FA being offline, locking people out of their accounts? Because of micro services HE EXPLICITLY mentioned taking offline? The site continues to make browsers freeE randomly, too.

He's just trying to get more investor money. The problem is that it is now a lot harder to come by than it used to be.

I'd never trust any US company with my wallet! US is one of the worst countries in the world when it comes to money because the country runs on greed.

UPI said hi

This

Exactly same with Indonesian QRIS, which most of banking and payment apps implement and can even be used in other Southeast Asian countries.

Portugal is identical, we have a arm system that is a network between all banks paid by advertising on the arm itself, also you can do a lot of stuff on the atm, even renewing a hunting license for example. And the same network that created that have an app that allows to send money to any person using they mobile number free of charge and it's is received the same second is sent. Also allows to pay using the phone camera or take money in a atm without a physical card. Now it even allowes to request a receipt with you fiscal number to ever payment made with the camera, without needing to ask the seller an wait for him to enter your number on the pos...

Hey Elon...the EU is on the phone..

_"I don't want gas or petrol as power sources. Put all our eggs in one basket please! Electricity only!"_

Users don't think it's a good idea. Shareholders think it is, and they force users to listen.

Giving that much power to a single corporation is basically asking for a dystopian corporatocracy (Believe me, thats the last thing we want.)

@@robotnoir5299L

If you wish to avoid the corporate dystopia, join a communist party becase that is the only possible outcome under capitalism.

That's still way too much, i am indonesian and gojek IS everywhere and it's only 2% gdp

More like 0.05%. Remember the so-called "revolutionary transportation idea" of Elon which was the Hyperloop? Millions of taxpayer dollars was sunk into after Elon convinced an entire city to invest in the Hyperloop project over actual public transport system and over the years nothing came out of it.

But then, Tesla & SpaceX should be his successful babies. & These only count as 5%??? Let’s be a bit fair to him.😂😂

​@@locacharliewongHe didn't even found Tesla.

​@@locacharliewongTesla has only had like 1 or 2 profitable years, and now other brands are set to eat a lot of Tesla's shares on the EV market, as their de facto monopoly comes to an end. What happened to autonomous drivning? Tesla Semi? Starlink seems to be the only SpaceX projects not go up in flames...

Exact reason why whatsapp payments failed in India, because it didn't initially (yet?) use UPI, like PayTM did. ADD: On the other hand Google Pay was one of the early adopters of UPI so it prospered in India. So it's possible, but I'd argue that Twitter doesn't have anywhere as big reach as Google. In the end this might be what makes or breaks X's dream of global payment mega app.

Aqui na Alemanha as pessoas não gostam nem de pagar com cartão de débito, preferem ir ao caixa eletrônico sacar dinheiro para comprar as coisas. Imagina se alguém iria usar um único APP para pagar contas, fazer compras e concentrar toda a vida ali dentro.

​@@fraufuchs9555Moçambique é a mesma coisa. Apesar da plataforma m-Pesa dominar o mercado das transacções. Ele funciona com base no teu número de telemóvel, não precisas ter nenhuma conta bancária para usar. Então é super fácil e inclusiva de usar.

@@pia31415 Whatsapp Pay works on UPI. But now when every person already has multiple UPI apps on their phone, no one is particularly interested in registering for Whatsapp UPI.

I think part of the problem any App is going to face is that it's not enough to be new and frictionless anymore. You have to be exceptionally more friction less than pre-existing options. Things like Pay Pal took off because, well, they were basically the only option to make online commerce easy. And for that same reason, a simple pay pal clone would not displace them. A lot of modern platforms are trying to provide a slightly better version of something that already exists. And there's not really a huge gap between hitting one button to send money in App A and hitting the tile on my homescreen to send money with App B. Especially because a lot of Apps these days are simple interoperable. Why do I need an everything app when I can instantly share a photo on instagram, discord, facebook messenger, or a phone chat with exactly the same ease. And I use each of those services for entirely different things.

You think you would, but you're wrong. If you wanted to give me $5 and there was a button under my comment to give me $5, you'd press it.

@@thewhitefalcon8539 Jack of all trades, master of none. Companies that tries to be everything to everyone are inevitably shown up by all the experts who can do everything better than they can. Would you trust medicine prescribed by your car’s mechanic, or let your doctor mess around with your car’s engine? 😏

That’s called a transaction??? Almost every app has that? Unless you are proposing we have a UKposts bank I cannot tell what you’re point is

@@Skywarslord No, not every app has that. Where is the button next to this comment that gives me $5 when you click on it?

@@thewhitefalcon8539 That isn’t a nessecary function for UKposts to have though. Not every app needs to do everything. It does have a button to give the creator five dollars, or the company five dollars, but there isn’t a need for UKposts to let me quickly send you 5 dollars. If I wanted to do that we’d have to go to a company which specializes in small, financial, personal transactions and do it there.

People can access Apple's App Store actually, and every Android manufactor has their own app store such as Huawei 's App Gallary and Xiaomi's Mi app store. However, since for the android market these stores are decentralized (it's like the wild west) it's difficult for the app developer to control the versions of apps. In fact I think people are using mini apps just because they don't want take time to download the real apps, let alone those (mostly android) apps always tend to have malicious behaviors without google's control (collecting your information, draining your battery, etc). That's why in the highend market of China Apple is taking the most market share.

It’s a huge missed opportunity for Apple. There’s a big difference in committed development and maintenance hours to develop a native app vs web app plugins under a platform. Progressive web apps could’ve bridged the gap on iOS between the performance and huge development time requiring native apps and simpler web apps that just need better integration with the OS APIs. The experience to develop PWA for iOS still sucks

Jobs wanted them to be web apps so you couldn't install anything without paying apple for it.

@@markhaus a lot of companies opt not to move into China because if you do, China needs to be in control. Even stuff like mmos that branch into China basically have to have a separate server run by a Chinese company. That's usually OK for games [though some like Sky CotL have run into issues with Chinese historical rewriting making it hard to even design cosmetics] but most major companies aren't willing to risk IP, trade secrets, their inner workings in that sort of environment. Nintendo in particular has historically preferred to allow piracy in China than risk total control of their IPs abroad.

The funny thing nobody mentions or realizes is, that we already have these Super-Apps. They're called AppStores.

Just like any other millionaire

For a guy who promises electric vehicles, he sure is filled of hot gas

He’s usually pretty off on his timing, but for the most part he delivers. Dude runs 5 companies and gets 6 hours of sleep a night, give him a break.

@@ysomadbeats if you do any reading you will find almost all his plans are duds. Like the stupid hyperloop.

@@Haraamcore13 Most plans are duds in engineering, I'm an engineer. His plans aren't duds, their ambitious, and quite often science just isn't there yet to meet the demands of some of his projects. Anyone in the engineering space can recognize his brilliance, iv heard him speak, he knows his shit. Before he bought twitter, twitter was spending more money on research and development then almost all of elon's companies spent combined.... And how many ground breaking scientific and engineering work was done by twitter with all this money? basically none, nothing came of it, twitter was the same app for a decade. Elon with less R&D money then twitter, managed to split it up across so many diffrent industries such as EV's, space travel, brain tech interfacing, artificial self driving and really just AI in general, and make ground breaking advancements in all of them. You don't do shit like that by having dud plans, if it was easy to throw shit at a wall until it stuck, everyone would be rich.

Facebook is a terrible thing to use because it tries to be a messenger, a social media site, a video platform, a shopping site, a transfer app and whatever else it is. The Super app only work in china because the government can just make people use it and they have no choice

I absolutely hate the "one app, one function" thing. Now instead of going to a website, I have to download each service's app? Each airline, shop, utility, restaurant, messaging service all have different apps I have to download and setup each time? Recently I paid for an online purchase through Shop, and it told me I had to download their app to track my shipment? Mate, all I want is the UPS tracking code. Waste of time and space.

10 apps doing each their thing is very different from 10 apps being integrated into one system. The integration into one system has potential to increase the quality and quantity of use cases like exponentially. That's why you can do things with Chinese super apps that you can't even dream of doing with 1000 separate apps on your phone. Anyway, the conditions for building super apps in the West are not the same as in China. The super app is actually not just the software or some server farms behind it. The super app is actually the whole infrastructure behind it, that has to work seamlessly together. Infrastructure such as rails, roads, smart cities, highspeed mobile networks everywhere, a vibrant economy with small and big services everywhere, cybersecurity, institutions for users to file complaints online and get justice near immediately if a company does shady stuff with their data, even the law plays a big role here and has to be constantly adjusted according to the Users needs. China has all of this. I've witnessed it and used it during my stays. The Chinese super app's level of comfort, safety, efficiency, near infinite choices is unreachable by the west. Mabye one has to experience it themself to understand how much more powerful a super app is compared to it's sum of isolated parts.

I think there's potential for not-so-super apps, that would focus on integration in one specific industry each. For example the passenger transport app, memberships app, delivery app...

@@guydreamr That's a weird thing to be offended by. Are you first day on the internet? How's this person supposed to know what it wrote in another comment?

Ha ha, well said! ☺

I hope he ruins Tik Tok next. Two platforms we don't need.

Yeah, gotta love Elon's strategy of firing a ton of programmers when the goal is to expand the application into a super app. There's a real genius move.

Windows phone cries in the corner and nobody cares

@@yyattt Yeah because nobody uses windows phones. Not even Bill Gates himself uses one and he founded the goddamn company that makes them.

Never

​@@VincentKarabouladMusiqueyou're simping too hard

PayPal?

​@@RawDealCoyou too jealous, stop hating

That's why you're broke and miserable

they are one of the few who have survived for so long when many other have failed but the platform is seeing its biggest transformation yet. Ads revenue share just kicked off a big change

@@a-don13 "Ads revenue share just kicked off a big change" What does that even mean? As the clip reported, Twitter's ad revenues have cratered after Musk took it over, most probably due to his incompetent management.

@@weird-guy I'm Brazilian, and we are apparently the 3rd biggest user base, and I don't know many people who use Twitter often, apparently is less than 20 million people. To put into perspective, Instagram has more than 100 million people using it here.

@@whannabi they're hiring

​@@a-don13how many best-of-the-best would agree to work in this company now?

This is potentially a very profound idea that you’ve identified here, and I’m sorry to sully it by sharing the first thing that came to my mind: “Don’t sh¡t where you eat.”

@@deadfr0g People in west already dislike Facebook snooping on them. I am pretty confident to say that not many would want them to also know their finances.....

Twitter is anonymous accounts, that usually does not go well with finances... I think Facebook has bigger chance at becoming a payment app, and they already failed with Libra.

That's a great name for a payment app. "Can you send me that $50?" "I'm Blocking you."

He's not the former founder of twitter. He is still the founder of twitter. Just not a part of it anymore

App-ception

Oh come on dude, most of those people were useless, try making at least a moderately good point.

And what do you do?

@brandonporter550 Wow you again that’s embarrassing

He never fixed the shitty moderation problem or the unfair allocation of verifications either.

Have u seen half of those employees?

Imo google is basically our version of a super app

get mate what VPNs work now ?

​@@weird-guyGoogle pay, Google doc, Google map, Google mail

Google has the potential, chrome, search engine, payment processor, email, youtube, android os, pixel and chromebook, and a bunch of other services. It's not all in one package, but the ecosystem has similar utility. Especially with how many other websites and services have a sign in with google option.

From my experience there's a lot of teenagers using it religiously in the UK, my brother basically lives on it

​@@FarmYardGamingindia too

It's a thing in The Uk

@c6ampyoung people and teenagers love the autodelete feature and that will always be true. We are now seeing other apps add this functionality

Sweden too

he bought twitter because he was forced to do so

@@solivares yes, but it would still be cheaper to be sued than to go forward with the purchase. That’s why I believe the date was his biggest motivation.

@@tiagomaqz so, in conclusion, you're agreeing he was forced to. due to his vanity and ego.

@@Maddog-xc2zv nah. It would be cheaper to be sued than to buy it if didn’t want to. He DID chose to buy it even though he got cold feet at some point.

​@@tiagomaqzHe got cold feet when he recognized that it was a terrible purchase.

In Portugal, you can do it with atm system,homebanking and an app called mb way. We get a entity number,reference number and of course the value of the payments or if you are using the app you scan the QR code, you can charge your number,pay electricity,water bill, government payments like irs,road tax ect, transfer money is something like 40 operations you can do at the atm

Yup really well said.

Each country having a super app is a great idea imo

The danger of monopoly is a capitalist problem? I guess you could say that China doesn't have a problem with monopolies because there isn't anything else. If a company has a large monopoly then there is danger that it will sway the government. But if the government has the monopoly, then there is the danger that it will abuse that power. Again, is there any question as to why the Chinese government wants a single application in which its citizens perform all transactions?

its mostly because poor republicans are to scared to learn new things and rich republicans enjoy keeping poor republicans poor and stupid so they keep putting them in power. Making life easier would then give their base more power which is the opposite of what they want because they want to hoard power and wealth.

X will become a bank And these users who are earning ad revenue will stop their money inside twitter and use it direct for payment to services

Sounds more like "X" is becoming the new OnlyF*ns rather than the new paypal lol

In my country I doubt it will stick, the user base is too small and we use homebanking,atm and mb way (upi type of app), Brazil has pix that is also popular and off course India has upi

I guess he wishes for the app formerly know as twitter to become the new paypal, but I don't know if the userbase is really up for it. Just look at the move of blocking non-twitter users from seeing tweets. while it lasted reddit threads that usually were filled with twitter links were simply filled with mastodon links right until they reversed it. Fundamentally changing how your service works might backfire and could potentially alienate your userbase and lead them to look for alternatives.

1 - who wants to give xtwitter money? 2 - Trolls, bigots and nazis live on xtwitter, so who wants to do business with that? 3 - xTwitter is only losing more and more money as it shrinks. 4 - trolls, bigots and nazis creating content for other trolls, bigots and nazis doesn't make money. They can do that for free anywhere.

Should've told them that Bargeld means cash, to make the sarcasm land better

Here in Wiesbaden, it is no longer possible to use Bar for ticket purchases on the Bus. You can still tickets at kiosks for cash, but it's only a matter of time before we are pushed to digital payments everywhere.

Marketing tars marketing, oppo ceo has said it marketing can change anything!

One potential niche is low to zero payment fees. Those apps are very expensive compared to even third-world payment network.

forcing customers (or soon-to-be customers) to use a certain app for payments on a LARGE amount of money is a great way to get them to get out of the purchase in the first place

​@@itemushmushwhat about giving a discount for purchasing a tesla on the x app? Maybe you will be selling at a loss but hey! Customer acquisition!

@@fennecfoxfanatic Doesn't worth the CAC. Many will just use X one time and never use it again. What would be the revenue model anyway??? Why would I pay 'X transaction fees' when there's other options for free.

Huge discount and other incentive for paying Tesla Supercharger using X

Yeah, that would only hurt Tesla purchases lmao.

yeah, as the video somewhat said it seems to just be a "Google play store"/"App store" where those aren't available

a dream within a dream

Your browser already does that lol. And btw, it's called virtualization/containerization, not operating system.

@@hanifarroisimukhlis5989it's just webview lol and Google actually have something similar called Instant on Play Store

@@hanifarroisimukhlis5989 I call it layers of slowliness.

Amazon already tried that. It was shit.

The thing with super app is it feels like trying to be an operating system on operating system. If they will make an OS, the features will be like separate integrated apps like Window's Control Panel, Device Manager, etc.

@@moritzwagner4332 True, though Amazon is not a super app.

@loopernagic4658 For the moment, yes but who knows what the future will bring? It's mainly the micro programs where I see the potential. For now they may be relatively basic compared to standalone apps but as their framework evolves it may become capable of mimicking an actual app experience and if it gets to that level, anything is possible really.

You severely underestimate the effort it takes to make a new mobile OS. The majority of attempts have been by forking Android, the only recent success (HarmonyOS) started AS a fork of Android, and the local non-Android OSes are either struggling in skunkware labs, pre-pre-pre-orealpha, or even more niche than Android forks.

It's just another corporation trying to make money. Nobody has to use X since there's alternatives that can do what it does but better. For now at least.

Google doesn't have a proper competition and is arguably more powerful than Wechat over the Chinese populace than Google over the Globe. Yet no one bats an eye

I absolutely agree with you

Elon is a manchild

Twitter is the perfect name for the social media platform that was. But... X did not emerge from the purchase of Twitter. Elon is simply finally wrapping a unified brand around his companies. He is building an ecosystem and not a bunch of money-making schemes... as is the case for every visionary deeply rooted in the most fundamental interpretation of existence - Natural Law (or as I like to call it Uncausedness). To understand his companies is to understand his worldview. A good practice to stay grounded is to consider that Elon is merely an individual. He is not powerful enough to do any of these things on his own. It is only by convincingly sharing his vision with enough powerful people that he can... especially this Twitter move.

@@freddielungu4444 "Natural Law (or as I like to call it Uncausedness)" Sounds like serious woo-woo.

How can an Idea be a scam?

Looks like he meant to use ~

Twitter has the benefit of not participating is as much government censorship

in India UPI ( one which paytm works ) is also free ₹0 transaction fee even u can send ₹1 to someone and btw 40% + of whole digital payments in world are from india digital payment is big hit in india

I guess offering a sign on bonus and some discounts would be a good place to start, but retention past the first month would be a challenge.

Pretty sure he’s gonna be fine as much as that pisses you off

@brandonporter550 Found the Elon fanboy

@@brandonporter550 Pretty sure he’s not gonna be fine as much as that pisses you off.

They both have your data

True. Elon shows zero values one would need for such trust. He criticised AI and asked for slowing it down for a while and next day we found out that he bought thounsands of graphics cards for AI; others should slow down so he has time to catch up. There are many examples that make me wish this stays his wet dream. These days I trust Zuck way more and that says a lot.

For those paying attention at the time, Elon absolutely never intended to buy Twitter. He was just di cking about as usual to get attention, thinking he could just back out later, but then the Twitter board FORCED him to buy it so they could make bank and retire. None of this is a planned strategy, it's all damage limitation.

Huge amounts of user data, and to a lesser extent users themselves as we're seeing from how little traction the "competition" is getting. Twiiter is still fairly large in the US despite it's drop. But expanding it would be a herculean feat.

Do you think the EU might slap this down too?

@@Lionel-zd8rb Yes, they both done it with tens of thousands of employees working over multiple year. Regulation and red tape in general might not stop you entirely, but it sure does burn your money.

Nah, nobody quit whatsapp because facebook. if you can get half the population to use it, the rest will have to follow.

@@elon6131 simp

@@joser1853 "Oh no, scary facts that don't match my worldview. quick! insult that person and thoroughly erase those facts from my brain, lest i learn something new accidentally"

​@@elon6131But people hate Musk more than Facebook

​@@joser1853hater

He's actually a Hungarian living in Germany

Inglourious Basterds!

Elon is actually quite dumb, but lucky.

Elon has spent his life failing up from the money he inherited.

Well you haven’t done anything of note, so not sure why I must listen to you.

ChromeOS is for subhumans. Google Chrome on android and iOS is the real super app, but web apps cannot do the things you buy a PC for.

@@the_mariocrafter I guess i am a subhuman then.

He wanted to buy Twitter but not for that price, due to the many bots and not that many active users as they claimed. Twitter didn’t want to sell in the first place and than forced him to buy.

@@mhfs61 that's not true. He made a ridiculously over inflated bid based on a joke number (44 Billion is from 54.20 per share. get it? weed haha) and the board legally had to accept it on behalf of their shareholders, that's how it works in business. He then tried to back out of it multiple times, thought claiming 'but the bots!' would get him out of it, Delaware court said no deal, and the number of bots since he took over the platform has absolutely skyrocketed. I've been on twitter since 2009 and the user experience has never been worse. I don't even bother anymore