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Elon Musk may be selling some X user handles for a minimum of $50000
4Nov By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk may be selling some X user handles for a minimum of $50000

[ad_1] X (formerly Twitter) is going through a transformative period. Recently, Elon Musk, the owner of the platform, revealed his plans to turn it into an ‘everything app'. The company is also releasing new features at a break-neck pace. Some of these features are also exclusive to the X Premium members, who pay a monthly subscription fee, to improve its revenue. Now, a new report has highlighted that X is also selling off old user handles to others at a massive price tag of $50000 and up. This revelation has emerged after some reports mentioned that X may actually start a marketplace where users can sell their handles to other users, and the platform takes a cut.Forbes found emails from the team within the company that has started working on a project to create a marketplace “for the ...
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Elon Musk’s X to roll out pinned hashtags in Communities; Check out this exciting benefit
2Nov By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk’s X to roll out pinned hashtags in Communities; Check out this exciting benefit

[ad_1] We recently found out about X owner Elon Musk's plans to turn the social media platform into an “everything app”, after his speech from the all-hands meeting with the employees was leaked. He talked a lot about Communities, highlighting that it is growing at a rapid pace. Perhaps to double down on that growth, X will soon get another new feature in Communities. This new feature, pinned hashtag, will allow group admins to pin certain hashtags at the top and allow users to follow a certain topic within the group.AndroidAuthority found a string of codes with the latest version of X for Android, where this hidden feature was found. The feature not being present at the moment could be due to the developers deactivating it to conduct tests, or to later release with additional lines of ...
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The ‘Everything app’ plan: Elon Musk reveals more new features for X – Know what he said
1Nov By adminNo Comments
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The ‘Everything app’ plan: Elon Musk reveals more new features for X – Know what he said

[ad_1] Twitter was transformed into X earlier this year, and while the change was essentially a logo, name, and domain shift, company owner Elon Musk has much grander plans for his platform. From a simple messaging platform, in his own words, Musk wants to turn X into an ‘everything app', similar to China's WeChat, where people can do a bunch of different things outside of typical social media activities on the app itself. This can include even checking your bank account balance, applying for a job, watching a live stream, shopping for clothes, and even finding a date. Even if it sounds ridiculous, Musk is pretty serious about it and mentioned it all during the company's first all-hands employee meeting.According to a report by The Verge, which published the full transcript of the meeti...
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Affirm CEO Sees Little Appetite in the US for Elon Musk’s Everything App
29Jul By adminNo Comments
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Affirm CEO Sees Little Appetite in the US for Elon Musk’s Everything App

[ad_1] Elon Musk's vision of an everything app that includes banking capabilities may not be what Americans are looking for, said Max Levchin, who co-founded PayPal Holdings Inc. with the world's richest man.“I do think that the everything app worked really well in a place, in a time, in a different country,” Levchin, now chief executive officer of financial-technology firm Affirm Holdings Inc., said Friday on Bloomberg Television. “I don't think the US consumer is looking for a version of a Tencent product.” Musk wants Twitter, which he bought in 2022, to be more like Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s WeChat, a messaging service that also allows users to send each other funds, pay for goods and services and borrow money. The app is used daily by more than a billion people in China, but attempts ...
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Elon Musk’s Everything App ‘X’ Is a Bad Idea
6Oct By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk’s Everything App ‘X’ Is a Bad Idea

[ad_1] Do we really want a capricious business titan to have all of our personal information and buying habits at his fingertips? Elon Musk likes to “go big or go home. ” So it was no surprise after news broke that he was buying Twitter Inc. after all, that he would tease a huge ambition for the company:Musk is not simply buying Twitter to make it better. He claims a much grander plan: creating an “everything app” that does whatever you need. The idea is not preposterous. Several so-called “super apps” have long existed in Asia. More than a billion Chinese citizens use QR codes through Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s WeChat to do all manner of tasks, from buying groceries to booking a dentist appointment, sharing photos with friends or playing video games. They can access a government-issued ...
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Elon Musk’s Everything App ‘X’ Sounds a Lot Like China’s WeChat
5Oct By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk’s Everything App ‘X’ Sounds a Lot Like China’s WeChat

[ad_1] Elon Musk has teased something called “X, the everything app”. It could look a lot like Chinese super-app WeChat. Elon Musk has teased something called “X, the everything app” after he buys Twitter Inc. Based on the billionaire's past comments, that service could look a lot like Chinese super-app WeChat. Musk didn't provide many details beyond a one-line tweet. But the Tesla Inc. impresario has openly admired the Tencent Holdings Ltd. app that's grown from a messaging service to a mini-internet used daily by more than a billion Chinese. He's mused aloud about making Twitter more useful, indicating he wants it to be more like WeChat and TikTok, the video-sharing service owned by ByteDance Ltd. that's taken off across the US. And he's drawn parallels to so-called super apps ...
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