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re: What's the point in changing Twitter to X?
Posted on 7/24/23 at 12:05 am to shel311
Posted on 7/24/23 at 12:05 am to shel311
I don't get why he is doing this. Why is @xvideos suspended? Was it already suspended or is it to make way for twittervideos becoming xvideos?
Seems like a doofus move from where I'm standing, but obviously he is smarter than I am.
Seems like a doofus move from where I'm standing, but obviously he is smarter than I am.
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Posted on 7/24/23 at 12:52 am to blue_morrison
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Lots of internet dinguses know Elon for Tesla and SpaceX. I remember him for merging with another company and kinda sorta getting Paypal going.
What a strange brag
Posted on 7/24/23 at 12:53 am to BeepNode
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Why is @xvideos suspended?
Chloe Lamb TYFYS
Posted on 7/24/23 at 1:58 am to East Coast Band
It's a smart branding move to get away from Twitter in conjunction with the upgrade and new features plus ... it sorta goes well with his other ventures. More futuristic and techy.
Tesla (more than just cars)
Space X (more than just rockets, to include satellites, internet and pioneering other planets)
X (more than just social media ... a news service, entertainment venue and soon to be an interplanetary, interspaceship medium for communicating)
Tesla (more than just cars)
Space X (more than just rockets, to include satellites, internet and pioneering other planets)
X (more than just social media ... a news service, entertainment venue and soon to be an interplanetary, interspaceship medium for communicating)
Posted on 7/24/23 at 3:01 am to AUCE05
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If I recall, he has some grand vision of what social media will be. It will be an AI/Twitter/FB type product. He calls it X.
If algebra taught me anything is was that X = everything.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 5:08 am to Soft_Parade
quote:So...Facebook?
X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine
Posted on 7/24/23 at 6:36 am to East Coast Band
I think it’s stupid. But what do I know.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:41 am to East Coast Band
Makes me think of Xfiniti
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:44 am to East Coast Band
Should have changed it to XXX and watched the numbers grow
Posted on 7/24/23 at 2:19 pm to Draconian Sanctions
quote:Likely motivated by obstinacy and hubris, per Business Insider.
It’s an incredibly stupid idea
Musk chose the name "X.com" for the company that later became PayPal.
quote:
PayPal executives felt branding would be an issue because of the "pornographic associations of the letter X."
The name never stuck: Disagreements within the company, including around the x.com name, would soon be followed by Musk's ousting in late 2000.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 3:24 pm to WB Davis
Ego ( he is entitled to it)
His first business was online banking called X.com
It struggled but merged with another online banking company ( his main competitor at the time….. ) they merged and he ran it but when on vacation the board ousted him as CEO and made Peter Thiel the CEO…
They rebranded it to PAYPAL… latter sold it and he took his money and ventured into others things like buying a struggling electric company called Tesla and surviving on government kickbacks to promote electric cars.. Thiel went into other things and does a lot with the LI family in Indonesia area( was one of the richest families on the world .. may still be)
He bought the X.com name back when it was available..
Some fascinating history behind him and his businesses…
His first business was online banking called X.com
It struggled but merged with another online banking company ( his main competitor at the time….. ) they merged and he ran it but when on vacation the board ousted him as CEO and made Peter Thiel the CEO…
They rebranded it to PAYPAL… latter sold it and he took his money and ventured into others things like buying a struggling electric company called Tesla and surviving on government kickbacks to promote electric cars.. Thiel went into other things and does a lot with the LI family in Indonesia area( was one of the richest families on the world .. may still be)
He bought the X.com name back when it was available..
Some fascinating history behind him and his businesses…
Posted on 7/24/23 at 4:27 pm to East Coast Band
Posted on 7/24/23 at 4:40 pm to Gravitiger
quote:If we've learned anything about social media, it's that the existence of one site does not mean there isn't a market for another.
So...Facebook?
Posted on 7/24/23 at 4:52 pm to shel311
Microsoft finna eat the second Elon hosts any sort of game or discussion thereof (via Tittter, er, I mean X).
Posted on 7/24/23 at 4:52 pm to East Coast Band
make our OT “centrists” mad.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 4:53 pm to East Coast Band
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Elon is changing the logo, the name, etc of Twitter to X.
What's the reason, OT?
Get rid of traces of that dweeb Jack whatever.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:02 pm to East Coast Band
microsoft owns the copyright to XPosted on 7/24/23 at 7:05 pm to East Coast Band
Idk, he’s made some good business decisions and bad.
I guess I just laugh at the people who question him on Twitter, they work for someone else. They really have never taken any sort of business risk in their life.
I guess I just laugh at the people who question him on Twitter, they work for someone else. They really have never taken any sort of business risk in their life.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:06 pm to 50_Tiger
Supposedly he tried to change PayPal to X , when he was with them, it got quickly shot down.
Also, allegedly, Zuckerberg owns the trademark for X as a social media entity.
Also Elon ripped the design for X from a musician.
Also, allegedly, Zuckerberg owns the trademark for X as a social media entity.
Also Elon ripped the design for X from a musician.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 8:00 pm to Sun God
Day drinking got me. Whoops
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