ELON Musk has revealed the latest phase of turning his X app into a so-called “everything app” – and it involves squaring up to YouTube.
The eccentric billionaire first unveiled his plans for X in October 2022, when he bought social media platform Twitter in a controversial $44billion takeover and renamed it.
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It was then when Musk detailed a theoretical single place where users can access most, if not all, of their favourite online services and utilities.
In China, a version of the idea already exists in WeChat, which began life as a messaging platform similar to WhatsApp.
Like I have said X is the new WeChat! All in one platform! Elon didn’t buy it for fun!
X user @HustleCatalyst
Over the years, WeChat has evolved into its own mini-internet that allows users to do everything from share social media-style posts to getting news, making payments, booking restaurants and ordering taxis.
First Twitter became X, and now X is set to become something very different altogether.
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In a short message on X, Musk hinted that users will “soon” be able to watch long form videos via X on their smart TVs.
This includes Samsung TVs and Amazon Fire Sticks.
Onlookers reckon the video-based version of X could rival Google’s YouTube.
But others aren’t fans of the decision, and simply wish that Twitter remained a text-based app.
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“I want Twitter to be Twitter. Not knock off YouTube. Not knock off cash app,” one X user wrote.
Another tweeted: “Like I have said X is the new WeChat! All in one platform! Elon didn’t buy it for fun!”
But the X team don’t see this as a huge transition, or big news update.
In a blog post earlier this year, the team claimed that X is already a video-first platform and that eight out of 10 user sessions involved watching videos.
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