Elon Musk has stated that buying Twitter would accelerate the development of what he calls “X, the go-to-everything app.” This statement suggests that the entrepreneur plans to add more services to the messaging platform.
In his first public statements since resuming efforts to buy Twitter for around $44 billion, Musk called the acquisition an “accelerator” for building some sort of multi-function app. In the past, Musk has mused aloud about making Twitter even more useful, indicating that he’d like to compare it to WeChat, a messaging service popular in China, and Tiktok, the Chinese video-sharing platform. Service that caught on in the US. He drew parallels with the so-called super apps, widespread in parts of Asia, which allow people to use a wide range of services, from messaging and other communication services to ordering food and summoning, with a single smartphone application driving service.
The CEO of Tesla did not explain in more detail in his remarks what exactly one has to imagine under “X”. But in a follow-up tweet, Musk said that buying Twitter would “probably accelerate X by three to five years.”