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   Darnell Clayton :verified: (darnell@one.darnell.one)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 14:26:59 JST Darnell Clayton :verified:

   Yeah, I think #ElonMusk is trying to mimic #WeChat, which explains the name change. WeChat is a super app (aka everything app) in #China ??, but market dominance of that scale is nearly impossible nowadays.

   ?? Twitter, Inc. is now X Corp. https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/11/twitter-inc-is-now-x-corp/

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     藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii (taiyo@ostatus.taiyolab.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 14:26:57 JST 藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii

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     @darnell WeChat, yes Musk would want to follow it. And I agree with you about it's impossible to grow giant service like WeChat.

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     藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii (taiyo@ostatus.taiyolab.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 14:41:29 JST 藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii

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     @darnell And Twitter was the another one that was once born chance in history. Musk had not got it and broke it, ? .

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     Darnell Clayton :verified: (darnell@one.darnell.one)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 14:41:30 JST Darnell Clayton :verified:

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     • 藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii

     @taiyo Yeah, I think #WeChat is a once in a lifetime type company. There is too much competition & government oversight to allow for something similar in another country.

     Also, I think #ElonMusk should give up call his super app “X” as it’s not exactly consumer friendly (geek friendly, yes! ?).

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     藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii (taiyo@ostatus.taiyolab.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 15:44:03 JST 藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii

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     • Frank Bennett

     @fgbjr @darnell The point of the past would be correct. Elon Musk, who has always liked to solve problems with money, brought Windows for PayPal was subsequently ousted. While Musk may hold a grudge, for the co-founders who had doubts about his technical abilities even before he started building, Musk's shopping were nothing but betrayal.

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     Frank Bennett (fgbjr@indieweb.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 15:44:05 JST Frank Bennett

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     • 藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii

     @darnell @taiyo The X name is what makes me think this entire mid-life fiasco is borne of smouldering resentment over a put-down by some fellow future billionaire back when his work on "X" in the pre-PayPal days was shoved aside. The guy holds himself out as being all about the future, but if my intuition is right, he's all about the past—and only his own little past, at that.