'Everything app:' Twitter launches new features, Carlson gives lift to content creators
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Industry rivals are watching as Twitter (TWTR) continues to take steps towards becoming an "everything app."
Elon Musk has revealed that new features like "voice and video chat" will be coming to the service, as well as encrypted direct messages, bringing the platform in line with other social media offerings like Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook (NASDAQ:META).
In a quest towards becoming a super app, Twitter (TWTR) recently inked a partnership with eToro that'll let users trade stocks and crypto, though the bigger fish range from payments and shopping to financial services and entertainment. Speaking of the latter, ousted Fox News (NASDAQ:FOX) host Tucker Carlson just announced he would relaunch his show on Twitter, which will help boost the platform's content creator community via subscription revenue and advertising.
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