​Ilon Musk has “twisted” again and wants to buy Twitter, and on Tuesday in a post on the network, the billionaire wrote that Twitter can accelerate the creation of a good application for everything, where you can do many different things. There is such an app in China, it has a billion users, but for several reasons it seems impossible for America or Europe to have something like this.

Elon Musk wrote that Twitter can serve as an “accelerator!” to create “X, the app for everything,” basically an app where you can do a lot of different things.

There is also a name for such programs that are extremely rare: “super programs”, super programs, and only one example stands out for its importance: WeChat.

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WeChat was created by the Chinese technology group Tencent, has more than a billion users and allows you not only to chat, but also to make payments, order food, call a taxi or play games. WeChat is like Facebook, PayPal, Instagram, Uber, WhatsApp, Snapchat and Glovo all in one app.

Interestingly, in a conversation with Twitter employees a few months ago, Musk said that he was excited about WeChat and added that it was the perfect opportunity to build WeChat outside of China. “You basically live on WeChat in China because it’s very useful and helps you a lot in your daily life,” Musk said.

Twitter has about 250 million users, and Musk has said he would like to reach a billion. It is hard to believe that Twitter will become a kind of Western WeChat, and even more so that Musk will be able to create it from scratch.

WeChat was developed in China, a very special market with different rules than the US and Europe. There is also a huge amount of censorship on WeChat, far more than any major Western app. Also, through WeChat, the Chinese government has easy access to anything a citizen sees, pays or does that the authorities find questionable.

There would undoubtedly be a lot of resistance if someone in the US or Europe tried to create a program that would monitor so many aspects of people’s lives, and many would object to important data being in the hands of one company, especially given the scandals in which they were involved. major American technology companies.

In Europe and the US, the market is freer than in China and competition between apps is fierce, so it seems impossible for one app to control such different domains. A one-size-fits-all Annex X still has a long way to go.

Sources: CNBC, CNN

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