Elon Musk Expands the X Global Town Square Concept Vision

Elon Musk outlines how the X global town square concept will transform the platform into a multilingual, AI-powered collective consciousness for the world

Elon Musk is redefining the future of his platform once again. During a wide-ranging conversation with Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath on the People by WTF podcast, Musk said he is done calling X a conventional social media app. Instead, Musk framed it as the infrastructure of a multilingual “global town square” — and, eventually, a kind of “collective consciousness” for humanity. Throughout the discussion, Musk repeatedly hinted that this vision will be powered by an emerging framework he describes as the X global town square concept.

From timelines to a “global brain”

Musk said X now has about 600 million users a month, a figure that swells to nearly a billion when major world events occur. But scale, he said, isn't the real story. What's important is who uses X: readers, writers, and people who "think a lot and read a lot." That, he said, is the community best situated to take part in the X global town square concept in which conversations are driven by ideas rather than algorithms built to maximize screen time.

Musk emphasized again that automatic translation will have a core role in the evolution of the platform. The ultimate objective, Musk said, is to dissolve language barriers so X becomes a continuous stream of global sentiment-but effectively allow people to understand what the world is thinking in real time. This, he said, is exactly why the X global town square concept must expand beyond Silicon Valley's linguistic and cultural bubble.

Why Musk bought Twitter — again, in his own words

When Kamath asked if he was glad he bought Twitter, Musk responded with an ideological critique rather than a business argument. He said the previous platform leaned heavily toward a "pretty far-left ideology" influenced by San Francisco culture. Moderation decisions, Musk argued, reflected this tilt, leading to suspensions of users on the political right.

Rebuilding the platform into something more balanced-and more useful-is core to his mission. That rebuilding is what Musk now describes as the X global town square concept, designed to center diverse voices rather than amplify a single worldview.

The road to an “everything app”

Musk also teased the coming attractions: integrating AI, long-form video, peer-to-peer payments, and commerce directly into X. These layers, he said, will enable the X global town square concept to evolve into an “everything app” — one that functions as both a public forum and a digital infrastructure for daily life.