Elon Musk Could Change the Future of Social Media

There is no denying that Elon Musk could shape the future direction of social media platforms, given the fact that he has completely abandoned the traditional way of managing a social media company. By replacing the logo of Twitter to a single letter "X," users might need to embrace new strategies to understand the purpose of the platform. It is believed that Musk had much greater ambitions in Twitter, such as banking and investment, as what people are using in the Chinese app called Wechat, is Musk heading the right direction? If Twitter jumps into banking system, how will the dramatic change impact the world? Is it too late to stop him? Dr. Bhaskar Chakravorti is the Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University – America's oldest exclusively graduate school of global affairs — the founding Executive Director of Fletcher's Institute for Business in the Global Context and founder and chair of Digital Planet.