Twitter deal paves way for 'X, the Everything App', says Elon Musk

Elon Musk said buying Twitter would speed up the creation of something he called "X, the everything app," suggesting he wants to add new services to the social media platform

Elon Musk said buying Twitter Inc. would speed up the creation of something he called “X, the everything app,” suggesting he wants to add new services to the social media platform he’s trying to take private.
 

In his first public remarks since reviving the effort to buy Twitter for about $44 billion, Musk called the acquisition “an accelerant” to building a kind of multi-function app.

Musk has mused aloud about making Twitter more useful, indicating he wants it to be more like WeChat, a messaging service that’s hugely popular in China, and TikTok, the Chinese-owned video-sharing service that has