Musk wants Twitter to be more like WeChat, to allow ‘outrageous’ comments

In his first direct call with Twitter employees, Elon Musk briefed them about his plans once he takes over the platform, including making it more like TikTok and WeChat and allowing “outrageous comments”.

The Tesla CEO, however, clarified that such comments shouldn’t be amplified.

Musk told Twitter employees that the platform needs to become more like WeChat and TikTok if it wants to achieve his goal of reaching one billion users.

“There’s no WeChat equivalent outside of China. You basically live on WeChat in China. If we can recreate that with Twitter, we’ll be a great success,” he told Twitter staff via a virtual meeting late on Thursday.