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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by SkyMarshal on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:18PM (#33659218)
No, it's "X", the all-in-app he wanted to do back in the 2000s, and which WeChat is now.

That's not a terrible idea if he can pull it off and make it profitable even despite the massive debt he loaded Twitter with to purchase it.

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by anigbrowl on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:49PM (#33659902)
See also: Compuserve, AOL, Facebook

WeChat succeeds because it caters to a less mature market with a simple integrated product. American network service users have demonstrated repeatedly that they are OK with bundling products but less enthusiastic about bundled services.

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by kravens_last on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:19PM (#33660518)
WeChat succeeds because it's a state sponsored monopoly. It would not have existed in a free and mature market in any western capitalist style economy.
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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by anigbrowl on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:05PM (#33662181)
I just gave 3 examples of products that succeeded brilliantly in a less mature market in western capitalist economies. WeChat might be an anachronism in 15 years just as AOL is today, although it continues to exist as a brand.

Incidentally I just glanced at the AOL website to remind myself how it's doing, and their ad banner offers a service to reduce the amount of paper junk mail you receive by signing up for AOL's managed unsubscription service. Less Information Age and more Irony Age.

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