Elon Musk's everything app 'X' sounds a lot like China's WeChat

07:00 AM IST. Elon Musk has teased something called "X, the everything app" after he buys Twitter Inc. Based on the billionaire's past comments, that service could look a lot like Chinese super-app WeChat. He's mused aloud about making Twitter more useful, indicating he wants it to be more like WeChat and TikTok, the video-sharing service owned by ByteDance Ltd. that's taken off across the US. And he's drawn parallels to so-called super apps common in parts of Asia, letting people use a single smartphone application for a range of services from communications to summoning a car. Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app. A true super-app, hundreds of millions use WeChat daily to book rides, make dining reservations, order food. WeChat is a fintech titan, one of China's biggest payments and online finance networks. In short, WeChat functions as an all-in-one service - combining the uses of apps like Facebook, Twitter, Uber, Instagram and Substack. At Tesla's annual shareholder meeting in August, Musk stressed that he uses Twitter a lot and that he has ideas on ways to make the platform "Radically better." He compared his ambitions for Twitter with the vision he had for X, a financial services company he co-founded in 1999.