Elon wants twitteX to be the west's version of WeChat, seems like he's forgetting WeChat is practically used universally in China because it's controlled by the government and forced on people. I see no way of twittex pulling this off.
Someone should let the CFPB know.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37226812 (CFPB data broker citations)
I think you have some pretty serious misunderstandings. WeChat isn't popular in China because it's controlled by the government. IIRC, it's popular because it was better than other Chinese social apps. It's only controlled by the government to the extent that everything is controlled by them. It's only "forced" on people to the extent that Visa, the telephone, or Facebook is forced on Americans.
In other words: WeChat can't be lazily though of as the Chinese equivalent of Telescreen from 1984, where everyone is forced to have and use one, even through it may function similarly in other ways.
This was also the case with countries in South America and Africa.
And people like Musk alread behave like dictators.
What do you think why companies went to China in the first place? Because of the great environmental and human rights?
Second I could criticize Apples business in China even if I would use an iPhone.
Third, I wrote people like Musk, that already says I don't mean Tesla only but all the companies that don't have a problem exploiting people in countries like China, Saudi Arabia, Russia etc.
Just look how well VW played together with Pinochet in Chile.
It's popular because it's functional, has strong network effects, and people don't care about centralization or second-order effects.
Now, in the US, we see it as the role of regulators to break up unfair monopolies, and even "fair" monopolies get a lot of scrutiny. In China, the gov doesn't really complain because they can piggyback on WeChat as a control mechanism. But the government is not why WeChat is popular. It's popular because it's good!
in the immediate, effective sense. it works and people use it.
It's obviously Xitter, pronounced "shitter".
bad for your health, and the whole left/right thing is a sham.
one might call it a disorder. an addiction.
Raider heisst jetzt Twix, sonst ändert sich nix.
(Raider is now known as Twix, nothing else changes.)
Ever since the Twitter/X renaming my brain short circuits and I got this annoying jingle stuck in my head. Twix - harmful even 30 years later.
So Musk is dreaming of a dystopia where he is one of the power.
You can fill out official government documents in WeChat.
I was in China in Sept 2019 (what good timing..) and without WeChat I did feel if people thought I was from some remote remote village. I saw an old lady who had a rickety old cart with coals and a big pot, inside the pot were warm corn she was selling, and on the cart was a QR code to pay her with WeChat/AliPay.
Virtually all mobile payments in China are handled by WeChat/Tencent. That's not an accident.
I really hope "everything" is an exaggeration.