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.

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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.