It’s his favorite letter or something. He’d wanted to name something X for a while. The closest he got before was SpaceX. Which I suppose now retroactively means SpaceTwitter.
Comment on Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests
Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 months ago
What the fuck’s “x”?
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 6 months ago
jakobmn@feddit.dk 6 months ago
There’s also the poor kid that he named ‘X Æ A-12,’
Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
An obsolete windowing system for UNIX like operating systems
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 6 months ago
obsolete? say that after trying wayland on an nvidia card.
otp@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
He sure has a lot of X’s
Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 months ago
And O’s!
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A robot created by Dr. Light with the capacity to reason and make decisions on its own, unbound by the laws of robotics.
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 6 months ago
who cares
psmgx@lemmy.world 6 months ago
X is one of his older websites, a financial platform that he created after his first startup was sold. Name comes from “X marks the spot” from old treasure maps, was to be the place for all transactions.
It struggled and didn’t really get off the ground, but was able to merge with another platform called Confinity, run by Peter Thiel. The merged platforms then became PayPal, and made both guys rich as shit. Thiel eventually power played Musk and got him kicked out of the company, arguably for good reason, though Thiel is quite a piece of work, too.
The new X is Musk’s attempt to make twitter more like his old site, and is why he was throwing around things like making it a peer to peer payment site, similar to WeChat / WePay or Venmo. How he plans to make tweets into bank transfers I’ve got no idea, esp. when losing 30 percent of users.
More on this: forbes.com/…/x-announces-peer-to-peer-payment-ser…
filister@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Pretty much he wants to turn X/Twitter as WeChat’s clone for the West.
As WeChat is both a messaging and payment app used by a couple of hundreds of millions of users in China where people can send themselves money, split bills, pay, etc. using the app.
Visa and MasterCard are extremely profitable companies enjoying really high margins and having very little competition. And this is very lucrative business: