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aurelius
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by aurelius » Thu Aug 03, 2023 12:18 pm
mikeylikey wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 11:38 amI believe Elon's goal from the beginning was to build the financial platform he thinks Paypal or X.com could/should have been before he sold it. I think his primary purpose in buying twitter was for the mailing list.
Expensive mailing list.
I agree that Musk has always had in the works developing an 'everything' ap. He has said as much. The decisions he has made sense buying Twitter has eroded the user base and diminished his own credibility which makes his 'everything' ap have questionable viability.
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Hiphopapotamus
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by Hiphopapotamus » Thu Aug 03, 2023 1:28 pm
Since they've rebranded, can we just get a couple of coders and launch our own messaging app and call it Twitter?
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Hardartery
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by Hardartery » Thu Aug 03, 2023 1:53 pm
mikeylikey wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 11:38 am
Hardartery wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 10:00 am
Bloomberg has just reported that X is trying to build an in-app trading hub, and are looking for a financial services partner for it. Interesting.
I believe Elon's goal from the beginning was to build the financial platform he thinks Paypal or X.com could/should have been before he sold it. I think his primary purpose in buying twitter was for the mailing list.
I am under the same impression, and just surprised that trading is included not just payments and banking. I think that will draw the Gamestop/Robinhood fanbois in, probably the smartest initial move as far as cashflow for the company.
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mikeylikey
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by mikeylikey » Fri Aug 04, 2023 7:11 am
aurelius wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 12:18 pm
Expensive mailing list.
For sure. I am convinced he was also generally sincere about the whole, future of human discourse, free speech town square stuff, so this hits on multiple priorities for him.
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mikeylikey
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by mikeylikey » Fri Aug 04, 2023 9:23 am