@gnutelephony@floss.social @darnell @BBCRD

I think Musk’s initial assumption that Twitter could become a WeChat equivalent wasn’t too bad, but it also wasn’t great. Let’s look at what WeChat has that Twitter had:

* Messaging (crappy, but it was there)
* Social Media
* Official Accounts

What’s missing is the following:

* Payments
* WeChat Work
* All the mini apps like: like health, movie reviews, tickets, delivery tracker, etc, etc, etc…
* Users: Twitter never had anywhere close to 1 billion users

Twitter had the BIG one, they were the place for official accounts for companies, politicians, academic institutions, government bodies, etc… But Twitter has regressed, rather than being even more welcoming to these sorts of accounts Twitter has become more hostile.

Overall Twitter is regressing, and not progressing towards this goal.

And I don’t see how they could ever make it. WeChat is developed by Tencent and Tencent has over 110k employees, Twitter has 1300 active working employees down from 7500. They can’t even support what they have, there’s no way Twitter can develop all the additional modules needed to become even 5% of what WeChat is.

PS: Also let’s factor in that Elon wants Twitter to become a paid for app, WeChat is free! Everything Twitter is doing is driving it further and further away from becoming like WeChat.

I guess they could become the WeChat for the USA from what you say. But even then I'd argue that it doesn't make them equal to WeChat, WeChat exists outside China all over Asia as a payment platform and China is a much larger market than the USA. Twitter could be WeChat Mini, not WeChat.