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WeChat should be removed from the play store outside China for violating personal freedoms and discrimination. I invite everyone who reads this comment to go here and report the app.
According to the play store, it currently requires 5.0 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tencent.mm&hl=en&gl=us
It's possible you may be able to install and use an older version of wechat - see https://wechat.en.uptodown.com/android/versions - but on my iphone 5 that's not the case, as the latest version of wechat available for the 5 says it's out of date and takes me to the apple store to upgrade (and then there's no upgrade available).
It's certainly bizarre, but I'm definitely not alone. Seems like almost every single recent review would agree with what I'm saying. See for yourself
> Ainda a semana passada vi uma pessoa com Viber, Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Skype e mais uma panóplia de serviços que desconhecia.
Tinha o WeChat? Se sim, tenho palpites sobre o que essa pessoa faz.
You mean this app, right ?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tencent.mm&hl=es
So China has: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tencent.mm
If Elon owns twitter and directs the company to essentially become a unified platform that is the NoA/SoA equivalent of WeChat/LINE/KakaoTalk, the monetary potential of that is not non-significant. Total NoA population in 2021 was: 375,278,947 and total SoA population effective October 2022 is: 438,768,808. Cumulatively, theoretically, if Twitter was just to focus on the Americas, it has a TAM of 814,047,755. If twitter integrates payment, again all theoretical, with payment processing that bypasses all the bullshit conversion fees, and is backed by a distributed ledger for transaction processing and attestation, and then Twitter takes a 1.5% cut on every transaction. Then if we be ultra conservative that at any given time only 10% of the TAM would engage in transactions and moved only 1 unit of currency per person, then Twitter would make: 0.015 * 814,047,755 * 1 = 12,210,716.325 units of currency per block. If in a given month, 100 transactions per block * 100 blocks are processed, then per month, Twitter could make: 122,107,163,250.00 units of currency.
Now, this unit standard is arbitrary and completely ignores the variances in currency value between USD, CAD, Peso, Brazilian Real, etc. So even though its 122Bn, accounting for all the variances, the real number is likely 1 magnitude order lower and that might translate into 100M in revenue per month. That then translates into $1.2Bn annually in transaction processing fees. Twitter makes https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TWTR/twitter/revenue | $5.22Bn in advertising revenue currently. So $1.2Bn doesn't sound much compared to ad revenue, but its no joke money. According to: https://merchantcostconsulting.com/lower-credit-card-processing-fees/paypal-and-venmo-fees-rate-increases-and-updates/#:~:text=Venmo%20Rate%20Increases%20and%20Updates%20Effective%20May%2023,%202022&text=Instant%20transfers%20are%20increasing%20to,$0.25%20minimum%20and%20$25%20maximum. Paypal has some 426 MAUs that equate to $1.25Tn in annual transactional processing. So, there's a lot of money left on the table for Twitter to grow into, if its handled smartly.
Time will tell what happens next, but if Twitter evolves into something like LINE, KakaoTalk or WeChat, then even if it sheds say 50% of its mDAU or even 50% of its CAUs, over time, it will undoubtedly grow those numbers back as convenience and feature richness will drive growth. Crossing fingers that the long-term output of this ownership leads to an exponentially positive outcome.
It's still on Google Play...
Here is the play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tencent.mm
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tencent.mm
Download the WeChat app from the Play Store, it will all be in English and easy to navigate.
I hope there is WeChat support soon...