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Why Musk’s ‘X’ will struggle to become a Chinese-style super-app
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Why Musk’s ‘X’ will struggle to become a Chinese-style super-app

[ad_1] Elon Musk is rebranding his Twitter platform as "X" and wants to create a super-app where users will do all their finances as well as their socialising.His inspiration is China's WeChat, which dominates the Chinese internet with chat, payments, games and a host of other functions in its walled garden. Musk has hinted that this kind of "everything app" is his goal for the X platform but experts reckon he will struggle. - What is WeChat? -The app was launched by China's big tech behemoth Tencent in 2011 to replace an earlier desktop chat program called QQ.It is used by almost everyone in China and weaves together messaging, voice and video calling, social media, mobile payment, games, news, online booking and other services.It passed the one-billion-account mark in 2018, with most ...