Elon Musk claims that the purchase of Twitter will accelerate the creation of X, an “all-in-one” app. This is how the businessman has expressed it in his first public statements since it became known just a few hours ago that he, in a new script twist, was abandoning legal resources so as not to buy the social network and, instead, would continue ahead with ‘X’.
A new decision change that avoids the trial that the platform and the technology tycoon were going to have this month. Except for another surprise, Elon Musk will be the new head of Twitter for the modest sum of 44,000 million dollars (at a rate of $54.20 per share). And he does it with a clear goal in mind.
X, Elon Musk’s “everything app”… thanks to Twitter
Shortly after it was revealed that Musk would go ahead with the purchase, he himself published in his profile on the platform that “Buying Twitter is an accelerator to create X, the app for everything”.
A new creation, instead of the same Twitter we know so far. That is what Musk, who has been flirting with the idea of creating a hyper platform as the axis of daily actions: social network, payments, news and even the management of procedures focused on leisure or business.
Something like WeChat, the Chinese “super app” where you can order anything from ordering dinner or a taxi to actually posting your thoughts on the latest trends. Musk expressed his interest in such a platform in a question-and-answer session with Twitter employees last June.
The director also assured in a later tweet, that the purchase of Twitter could accelerate the creation of X “between 3 and 5 years”. Although he admits that he could be wrong.
Twitter, Musk, Dorsey and everyone else
Although Elon has always been inclined to express his liking for Twitter, he has also been inclined to point out what he does not like. And in recently revealed conversations with the platform’s founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey, both – especially the latter – agreed on the need to create “something new”.
Dorsey already expressed in his day that Musk was “the only person he trusted” to elevate Twitter as a social network, something that now seems much closer than ever to ending up happening. In the aforementioned texts, the owner of Tesla is also inclined to evolve the current social network.
Although it is difficult to guess what will happen, everything could effectively end in the creation of the aforementioned X.
This is a letter with certain resonance for Musk, because that was the name of his first start-up, which later ended up mutating to PayPal. In 2017 he bought back the domain X.com (owned by eBay) for its sentimental value.
This is also the name of the company created by himself for eventual management of Twitter (X Holdings), in case the purchase is finalized.