If anything whatsapp is way more able to integrate we-chat like functionality and capture the “everything app” market is, then what Elmo wants to do with X-formerly-known-as-twitter.

Although I hope people just don’t want to have an everything app, and this fails horribly.

Better than Twitter, but still not great.

Anyone trying to reproduce WeChat in the west is insane. Nobody needs it. Nobody wants it. The conditions that allowed it to take off in China do not exist in the west.

The only company with a real chance of success is Apple, and their business model is a little more resistant to such corruption, at least for now.

Facebook is the best positioned by far, they just need a popular payment service