On the occasion of the Parisian VivaTech fair, Elon Musk resumed his investment of 44 billion dollars to buy Twitter. The man who also runs Tesla and SpaceX has reaffirmed his desire to make Twitter a versatile application, inspired by the Chinese giant WeChat, which mixes a social network and a mobile payment application. Also evoking his story, as co-creator of PayPal.
Since taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has changed the name of the parent company of company X Corp, citing his desire to transform the platform into a multi-functional app, with instant messaging and mobile payment tools.
Elon Musk spoke of several positive points observed on Twitter since his arrival. Among them “a 90% reduction of bots and spam”, and “95% of” pornography or child pornography removed from the network “, according to him.
Elon Musk spoke at the VivaTech fair after meeting Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace, for the second time in as many weeks. He also had lunch with Bernard Arnault, executive director of the LVMH group, with whom he regularly fights for the place of the world’s richest man.
Source: BFM TV
