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Haven't seen that theory before, very interesting and makes sense.

He's been broadcasting exactly this plan for several months ("X", The Everything App), which is what WeChat is.

It's not really even a theory, he flat out says it:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1657050349608501249

>Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app.

He made some statements about making Twitter into the one place to do everything before he bought it, and it sounded a lot like WeChat. He might of even mentioned WeChat directly but I don't recall

Some more background here:

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4/18/23687125/elon-musk-...

It makes sense in terms of how I can imagine Elon's vision. It doesn't (to me) make sense as any kind of realistic proposition.

I'm not surprised, if you don't follow Elon closely and only read the nonstop clickbait headlines, you will be severely misinformed. Elon has been talking about the "everything app" forever. Elon has had the idea going back to the X.com days, that's what he wanted to do with Paypal.

Another thing you may not know: Twitter will soon be competing with Youtube.

> Twitter will soon be competing with Youtube.

In the sense my walk through the park today "competed" with Kipchoge because we both propelled ourselves forward on legs, sure.

Twitter video is by far the least functional it's ever been, and this is a relatively recent (past ~month) development.

I'm pleased that speed control has appeared on many videos recently. I'm not sure if this is brand new, or restored, but anyway it makes videos a lot more useful to me at least.

Occasionally when I try to full screen a video, it results in a different video popping up. There seems to be some connection between the videos but I can't totally understand what that is. One time the video I ended up seeing was street violence, I assume it will be porno at some point.

This. The everything app that uses chat to push payments and other commerce.

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