The all-in-one messenger has in effect erected a walled garden, critics say, where e-commerce transactions only take place over its payments app and information consumed by users is either published within WeChat's infrastructure or third-party services backed by Tencent. The exact WeChat features that impress Musk are also the source of criticisms of the app. But is the WeChat model really a desirable product for the U.S.? And Tencent's investment in Tesla has probably given Musk an insight into the Chinese internet giant. WeChat has long been celebrated in the West as one of the greatest inventions that came out of the Chinese internet.

And I think if we could achieve that, or even close to that with Twitter, it would be an immense success. You basically live on WeChat in China because it’s so useful and so helpful to your daily life. And I think that there’s a real opportunity to create that.

And, you know, if I think of, like, WeChat in China, which is actually a great, great app, but there’s no WeChat movement outside of China.

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