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Twitter turns to X.com. What do you think?
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@tanaylakhani Yup, it's strategic move by Elon and his team. Seems like he want to build more inclusive power app like WeChat in China.
@hafeezcae I like that he is thinking outside the box - like why would you not include payments? If you support payments and have a good payment gateway, why not allow peer-to-peer payments? Why not allow better communication among twitter/X users?
@tanaylakhani yup, that's why I smell from miles away. He's a capitalist through and through. He proved his tenacity after coming back from nervous breakdown after his own mentors and persons he looked up to turned their back against him in the early Tesla days.
I think they are lucky that they already have a community that it will keep using it, at the moment, but I believe from the brand and communication perspective X means nothing. I guess it is the beginning of the end. Slowly we will see more things from "Twitter" where the grow is flat and start to decrease the usage and the revenue coming from users and ads. There is not much value for the users, how many of the users are really identified with this? Not many.
I wonder if, in Elon's mind, there's something more symbolic/mystical/deeper to X than just the simple "cool" effect.
It's a mistake! How many companies have such a brand power that people use their name as a verb?
"I will tweet this"
Innovative? Refreshing? Let's see Meta, Alphabet, etc. I remember when those ideas were "fresh an innovative," and besides being years ago they were not recycling a name. This is just more inept flailing in desperation while the platform dies. Will my 8.00 get me a blue x now?
This reminded me of Google buying it just for Motorola's patent rights.
(Most analysts believed Google simply wanted Motorola's 17,000 technology patents. Owning them would help Google defend its Android operating system from infringement attacks. Google executives acknowledged patents played a role in the original Motorola deal. https://time.com/2650/motorola -is-a-gargantuan-mistake-only-google-could-afford-to-make/ )
I think Elon Musk will build x.com very differently. I think this is more of a project than a social media project.
We need to understand that 40 billion dollars is already thrown away for such a project.
It will probably be a user-friendly project with a complex in the background but a simple interface in the foreground, covering all e-commerce, social media and news sites.
Super curious on how big the everything app is gonna be with X.com aka Twitter in it
I'm interested to see how other parts of the app will change following this. Ex: What will the Tweet button become?
I think this wasn't required. Elon could have grown X from scratch for far less than $40 Billion
Elon ❤️ his X's. He's onboard with the trend, creating a campaign that revolves around himself. 😄🚀
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