“ X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities.”

You’re rebranding information from the article as your own speculation?

He’s said as much personally back at the beginning. Notably, WeChat enjoys a government monopoly in China. Musk was hoping that the critical mass of Twitter would let him achieve the he same here.

He should have bought Facebook then.

Many of Musk's plans for Twitter appear to been formulated after the fact.

Twitter was first going to be a safe harbour for free speech. Then it was going to the launch site for De Santis' presidential campaign (ignoring the irony of championing politicians who can't sign censorious bills fast enough).

Now it'll be a payment platform? People don't want to come to Twitter to spend money, it's reality TV for the internet -- nobody's paying for that. It would be like purchasing a sports team, and setting up a credit card signup booth at the stadium.

The same account for a bank and a shitposting platform. What could possibly go wrong?

> I speculate that musk is trying to build something like weChat for the US

You don't need to "speculate", because Musk has literally said this.

Except like 90% of the comments here completely ignore the fact.

It might work. We don't like silos but they're handy for users.

Too late now, with advent of CBDCs , the time for paypal has passed

I speculate your username is simou.

WeChat is just an app platform, like Android or iOS.

coming soon: "Go back to Twitter" for $20/month on X.com