X users can now make and receive audio and video calls on the social media platform.

X is rolling out audio and video calling features that nobody asked for.

This move is a part of the plan to transform the platform into an “everything app” like WeChat, following Elon Musk’s ambition.

  • wildcardology@lemmy.world
    25·
    11 months ago

    I really don’t get why he spent 44 billions just to turn Twitter into WeChat. He could have just spent 1 billion or less to develop one from scratch.

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
      19·
      11 months ago

      So he can coerce the existing user base into using it. If he did it from scratch no one would use it

      • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
        5·
        11 months ago

        Let’s not forget that Muskrat wanted to buy Twitter to shit down the kid that was tracking his private jet, then was forced to complete the transaction after he tried to weasel out of it.

    • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
      121·
      11 months ago

      He was trying to shame Twitter for deplatforming far-right extremists by swinging his dick around and then his lawyers informed him he could either lose billions on the purchase or billions on the lawsuit.

    • dangblingus@lemmy.world
      112·
      11 months ago

      $22B of that 44 was money the Saudi Arabian government gave him. The idea was to trash twitter, make it unusable, and hopefully prevent another Arab Spring uprising.

    • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      11 months ago

      I mean, if he could actually make Twitter into WeChat of the US, that’d be a great move (for him, not the rest of us). WeChat is everywhere in China. My employer has employees in China and Chinese spyware WeChat is installed on company systems in China in order to conduct business. Something similarly ubiquitous in the US would be very profitable, and be able to hoover up insane amounts of data to use for selling targeted ads.

      Fortunately, instead of WeChat for the US, we got a master class in how to destroy a social media platform. And I doubt adding voice and video chat, with Creepy Uncle Elon listening in, is going to do much to save it.