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- The leader of tech's favorite texting app suspects there will never be a WeChat in the U.S.
- Elon Musk is attempting to turn Twitter, renamed X, into just such an app.
- Despite such ongoing efforts by major tech figures, there is not "much hope" for success.
The odds of Elon Musk turning Twitter into the next "super app" are slim, according to the president of Signal.
Meredith Whittaker, a former Google executive and co-founder of research group AI Now who last year became Signal's first president, cast doubt on the likelihood of Twitter becoming the next WeChat, the most popular messaging app in China.