This idea of "why doesn't the west have a WeChat-like app" (which X is supposed to be eventually) is so shallow that I have trouble believing there is any corporate support behind it besides Elon. As he's seemingly pushing his successful space & EV business under this parent brand, it would be a strange hill to die on.
I don’t understand how Twitter and the X idea overlap. Elon just wants to use the existing user base to seamlessly switch to the new app. If that’s the only reason he is bulldozing Twitter into X, feels like a bad idea. With his celebrity (though severely diminished) he can pull in a lot of interest to X as a new company. That would have automatically added a few billion in value for him. Instead trying to morph Twitter into X reduces Twitter’s value and doesn’t net anything positive at all. I don’t get this madness
If he wanted to make all these sweeping changes then why did he alienate his staff?<p>Can you imagine all the time and money that was put into staffing Twitter? There is value to an organization and its unwritten human network upon which it operates. Then it was just blown away over night to appease some beanie wearing mouth breathers on the platform
It used to be single-letter TLDs couldn't be registered. Here is a look into the current status I did a bit ago: <a href="https://github.com/ryjones/single-letter-tlds">https://github.com/ryjones/single-letter-tlds</a>
<a href="https://ꓫ.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://xn--vm8a.com/</a> (<a href="https://xn--vm8a.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://xn--vm8a.com/</a>) which is not the twitter X.com can be bought for 9,000,000 USD This will be interesting if someone will buy it.<p>EDIT:<p>HN automatically converts to puny code that's good. The letter X in that other domain looks like this: <a href="https://www.compart.com/de/unicode/U+A4EB" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.compart.com/de/unicode/U+A4EB</a><p>You can copy and paste it and add .com and see that it is the same as the puny code URL mentioned above.
I just gotta say this... Musk's kid (X) is going to have a horrible bullied childhood through no fault of his own. Good job, Elon... Well played...
This is an interesting case of ignoring Twitter's second biggest market - Twitter Japan can't be called X Japan because that's already the name of the most famous rock band in the country.
I recently finished reading "The PayPal Wars". The book recounts an interesting episode regarding PayPal's history where Elon Musk pursued his vision of rebranding PayPal as X.com. Despite his efforts, the initiative was not successful, ultimately leading to his resignation from the CEO position. It remains to be seen whether history has the tendency to repeat these kinds of events.