Twitter

This article tries to explain what Elon Musk is trying to do with Twitter - I mean X. It seems he wants to go back to the future and re-establish an internet bank he started in 1999 called X.com with the idea that this app would have “the ability to conduct your entire financial world.” Who wants this? Why would anyone want to combine social media with banking? The article points out that WeChat in China has this sort of platform, but why would this be successful in the West?

The rebranding of Twitter as X is really weird. What is the description of a post on X? A tweet made sense, was sort of cute, and entered the vernacular. What is an X? The appropriation of a logo that I strongly associate with X.org seems problematic. I guess they don’t really have enough lawyers to contest it. But there seem to be many, many other companies have the rights to X as well.