You don’t just throw away the brand equity of one of the pioneering social media companies. In general, I’m an admirer of Musk’s achievements, but this idea does not look like it will be one of them.
Musk envisions X.com to grow beyond just Twitter, to include a payments facility.
I don’t know why he would do this. At first blush it seems like a bad idea but who knows there could be a reason we don’t know about yet. I have this dream he would find a way to buy one of the 3 Networks. If just one was taken from the rats it would absolutely dominate. He would have to but it covertly because the left keeps a death grip on them
“You don’t just throw away the brand equity of one of the pioneering social media companies. In general, I’m an admirer of Musk’s achievements, but this idea does not look like it will be one of them.”
X is just a piece of the pie. Not an entity to itself.
The worst idea is that I don’t pay to subscribe and seemingly hit my “limit” if I click on a Tweet that has thousands of replies. I stopped going there because I can’t see anything other the “rate limit exceeded try back momentarily.”
Is he trying to kill Twitter?
when someone that has built about a trillion dollars of companies based on his smarts and intuition changes course - I just assume listen to his advice, not ‘marketers’....unless of course someone can point me to a ‘marketer’ that is worth a few hundred billion dollars based on their ‘marketing genius’ skills.
What will the company be called?
Will people say Twitter or will they whisper ‘I was at the X site and....’