He had a company/brand called X which did the same thing as PayPal and merged with Confinity, who made PayPal. He wanted to use the X name for PayPal, but everyone else at the company nixed it.

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Gangreless 24 points 3 years ago

Dude's a cringey edgelord I'm surprised all of his don't have an x in their names

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Nythos 7 points 3 years ago

XxDarkSoulElonxX

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glibg10b 6 points 3 years ago

X Æ A-12

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Paralda 6 points 3 years ago

SpaceX, Model X, X.com (pre PayPal), and even named his son X. Dude's got a weird obsession with making X work.

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FlyingSquid 31 points 3 years ago

Promotes the name change by linking to something that calls it Twitter. Big brain time from Musk yet again.

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LazaroFilm 1 point 3 years ago

I thought it was a logo change not name change.

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ultratiem 24 points 3 years ago

Wouldn’t you want to forward Twitter.com to X.com and not the other way around?? It’s not possible someone with this much wealth is this dumb.

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Delusional 15 points 3 years ago

Well clearly you're wrong about that.

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ultratiem 4 points 3 years ago

☹️

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LordDemecrius83 20 points 3 years ago

Sounds like a porn site not gonna lie

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PenIsland 3 points 3 years ago

Another social media platform dominated by furry pron.

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KemonozumeFan 1 point 3 years ago

All that it's good for.

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cedarmesa 19 points 3 years ago

💀

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Sharpiemarker 9 points 3 years ago

XxXTwitter360NoScopeXxX

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ultratiem 2 points 3 years ago

It’s a symbol to his fan base. Which is wild that that’s the head space he’s in. Still trying to be that cool kid amongst his rabble of friends.

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ultratiem 2 points 3 years ago

It’s not even “new” he was trying to get PayPal called X and everyone squashed it (thankfully), so even there, he’s been waiting like 25y to get X on something lol

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wildcardology 17 points 3 years ago

I thought Elon stepped down from Twitter and hired a new CEO? What's he still doing there?

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FlyingSquid 7 points 3 years ago

He stepped down as CEO but is still president, CTO and anything else he feels like being while he can scapegoat his female CEO for anything he wants.

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postmateDumbass 7 points 3 years ago

Twating.

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jungekatz 15 points 3 years ago

X.co.....m sounds like an xxx site !

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precordial_thump 13 points 3 years ago

xvideos.com is twitter’s new video hosting site

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Lemmylefty 2 points 3 years ago

Where no one lands their shots even with 90% odds, huh?

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esadatari 15 points 3 years ago

early user testing of the new service reports are that the iconic tweet sound will be replaced by an ai-generated voice recording of deceased rapper DMX’s iconic canine-esque barking even though DMX’s estate has not given permission nor will they receive any compensation.

when sending messages, it will make a sound of “x gonna give it to ya”. again, no compensation to be had to the DMX estate, nor the ruff ryders.

more news at 11

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BlackXanthus 11 points 3 years ago

So, yes official. Don't message your X

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PlatypusXray 7 points 3 years ago

It’s still not dead?! Let’s try something else!

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Akasazh 6 points 3 years ago

Twats, we should call him, after the owner

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howdy 5 points 3 years ago

Lol .. what an idiot.

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riodoro1 3 points 3 years ago

Im fucking sure Elon pretty much drew the logo himself and gets a wild boner when he thinks how fucking smart he is.

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XanXic 2 points 3 years ago

I can't imagine how much the x.com domain costed him. Like I know most three or four letter domains trade hands for six figures sometimes since there's so few

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...

Like apparently single letter domains are reserved so idk how he got one

Edit: found out. He bought it from PayPal after they stopped using it for their brand years ago. $6.8 million dollars for a domain.

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ultratiem 3 points 3 years ago

He wanted PayPal to be called X so I’m wondering if he didn’t have this domain the whole time.

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zaph 4 points 3 years ago

The wiki article says as much

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