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Seriously, Why Did Elon Musk Rebrand Twitter as X?

#wechat#stopshop#twitter#userbase#factchecking
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0:00 the intention is to be able to One Stop Shop your entire online life some people are way too smart for my simple monkey brain see when you explain it like that way cooler yeah but when you explain like that it sounds like one thing but I couldn't even find the ████ app on my phone for like 10 minutes yesterday [Music] Twitter is now X what do you mean yeah what does it mean dude wait what what does it mean yeah the app changed like if you see if you have Twitter yeah it's not Twitter anymore it's just the X it's just the X yeah what I read was um elon's been owning x.com so he just wanted a reason to use it oh is that what it is I don't know that's what I read somewhere but like you know it's something more complex than that but I like that but it's one of the most name recognized Brands like on the earth

0:50 that's why he spent 65 billion dollars for it why are you ditching it immediately 44 billion 44 billion yeah I wonder why does it explain why he changed it to X yeah okay yeah yeah okay so he originally uh got the URL for x.com for like millions of dollars like multiple years ago one he's also infatuated with the character because you know it's basically aspirin Asperger guys and model X right like Tesla yep and his kid is named X so he loves he he loves the shape nice yeah uh and the whole point even from the beginning of speculation was when he had x.com because everyone's like what is this what's this like ████ genius billionaire gonna do with this like for for years people are always speculating and then you know information from like trusted sources will eventually leak out about the idea that it was supposed to be a One-Stop shop for like all things

1:40 online similar to an akin to WeChat in Chinese everybody familiar with WeChat in China yeah ████ everything on there it's a communication chat platform social posts purchasing like you you can there's WeChat pay where literally every ████ store in China basically you never have to pull out your wallet you could just use your phone you scan WeChat codes it is super effective and efficient um so everything works on there you can basically do everything on WeChat sending files blah blah blah right so the intention was to always do that with X or x.com and then he purchased Twitter and then was uh basically had this whole meeting with his board and stuff and people to tell them that uh X is now going to for sure be a thing and Twitter was going to be an accelerator for it so turning Twitter into X is part of the process to create a One-Stop online solution because he already has a user

2:32 way more sense dude he's gonna I think this is a good move so it's one of the many functions yeah right it's just rebranding now because that's also kind of like elon's ml 100 hyper for a long time until delivery but that's also the thing he was never about crazy marketing just like Tesla right he doesn't Market ████ he has this philosophy that it's a brilliant and good product it will Market itself anyway so right now it's just a branding change uh but what who knows when the rollout will actually be for when because even now on what was Twitter it's not just 140 character tweets anymore you know you can do so much ████ on there now that like hasn't been done hours of video on there wow Tucker Tucker Carlson after he left or he got fired from Fox or whatever his whole his whole show's on Twitter now or it was X but yeah so the idea that you

3:22 could do that um their intentions are to roll out things like paid subscriptions and stuff like that so like imagine patreon but through X the whole thing is to be able to have your entire Financial portfolio and stuff like that in terms of payment processing and like user interface and posses for businesses and everything like that so you can do that um outside of just the things that you quote unquote used to tweet under post like imagine if you're regular social posting uh or photo posting like Instagram or whatever the heck also happened there in the same place that you do those stuff slash chat slash email slash whatever like the intention is to be able to One Stop Shop your entire online life some people are way too smart for my simple monkey brain see when you explain it like that way cooler yeah well when you explain like that it sounds like one thing but I couldn't even find the ████ app on my phone for like 10 minutes yesterday because I changed the icon over so it's not blue

4:12 anymore it's just black X and I wasn't even looking for that it should have made it a blue background or something I mean in a couple years we might be like this is tight it almost seems like he wants to just completely wipe the memory of Twitter I think you you have to right because it had such a bad rap with him coming in and everybody was like oh he's running Twitter you're firing everybody I think it's probably smart that he started it's like he's really just erasing it and taking all of the assets now it feels like elon's you know that's true why didn't he just make his own then oh ████ because no one would have they wouldn't have talked about as much as this because he's buying the user base isn't it he's buying a user base okay that's huge that makes sense you know but the crazy thing is now people apparently are also auctioning on eBay old iPhones that have the old Twitter logo that haven't been updated yet for like over ten thousand dollars who's buying that the ████ is

5:03 buying nobody hopefully but probably a lot of people but probably some people like I hope they make their money right because they can't update the old ones they're Flappy birding basically yeah they just want the old logo and something because now it's a a ████ phenomenal cultural Relic it's a collectible yeah it's like the PlayStation game that horror game it's like Silent Hill or some ████ oh yeah it was like a demo and you can buy old PlayStations that have that demonic because PlayStation got rid of it after a while do you remember that yeah yeah it was like but like you could you have to spend like thousands of dollars for a ████ PlayStation because this is old demo and then as soon as you buy it and play it you're like that wasn't worth it that's ultimate buyers or more exactly that's ten thousand dollars you're like oh ████ it is a demo what do you guys think about a One-Stop shop online I think that's great I think so many people have tried it like

5:53 everywhere tries it right I don't know it's different to execute it we'll see I think what's the closest thing we have here in the states for a One-Stop shop is it Facebook maybe Facebook Apple because you got Apple pay you have ████ iOS what about chatting I guess iMessage yeah yeah I mean that's that one is kind of a One-Stop shop Without Really realizing it which is interesting do you think the timing of this and threads is kind of like coincidental or you think the whole threads was a complete ████ ripoff they even used old Twitter engineering yeah but that's what Mark Zuckerberg always does yeah that's what's called zucking he literally is like see something it's like all right let's put that on Facebook yeah because he took Snapchat but threads is in the clubhouse grave now oh is it already yeah oh dude I didn't think it was gonna I was gonna go in I saw everybody posting about that it blipped and then the user base cringe yeah big ass Spike and then just said

6:43 what drastic abandonment because this is exactly what Twitter is so if you already have Twitter and there's already a community and like yeah your routine also it's like why would you go on two twitters I don't know and the news of X kind of dwarfed the existence of threats so maybe that's also another randomly brilliant thing yeah that is he timed it well or maybe he knew that threads was coming out so he's like all right let me just wait maybe he's even like X ain't ready but because you made threads ████ it I could do this yeah let's just do it Bill Gates zucked um Steve Jobs pretty hard when when uh if you remember when Windows came out they they copied Apple OS like big time yeah oh really oh yeah but he's also saved him two he saved them later yeah later later yeah yeah when he because after Steve Jobs got kicked out and then Apple was like hey uh Steve you want to come back cause uh we're gonna lose money in two months

7:34 completely I'll just take the company and then he's like well ████ what am I gonna do and he's like Bill I'm in trouble and then Bill's like I'll give you all the money you need I'm just your partner now yep so I mean it's it's almost later yeah that was later though but in the beginning yeah you he did steal he stole and but Bill Gates stole everything stole everything that was one of his biggest things like in Silicon Valley he would he's not inventor just give people whatever some company was working on for free like like the Microsoft Words and the excels and all that kind of ████ like he would just take your idea that you were trying to like see around uh raise money with and then sell and he just copies it and it's free now on Windows and then you're ████ he's like she in you know what's crazy it almost feels like at least to me that like the incorporation of X becoming a One-Stop shop is not necessarily

8:24 of imitation of WeChat as it is a war against WeChat it feels like he knows that WeChat could take over American audiences because that's already an established model and China in a way is taking over American audiences with Tick Tock so he's trying to be the WeChat before WeChat is the WeChat and that's kind of what elon's about like trying to be pro-free speech and all that yeah exactly and of course this of course he's going to see the future in a way that normal people like us which if people were perceptive enough to like even see that perspective should rally behind the idea and everybody really underestimates how much they forget that they hated a change yeah everyone always hates the change and then they love it and they forgot that they're one of the haters in the beginning look how many times Instagram has changed and everyone hated it every time and then we just even when the icon changes remember like when the icon of

9:15 Instagram changed from the camera to like just the what it is now what is it plus it's generational again there's people that are entering X not knowing Twitter and they just accept that that's what it is and everyone who complained kind of doesn't use it anymore even if just by looking at it I kind of like it already I don't I don't care honestly it's just it was just a pain in the ass finding the the icon yeah because I was like you know though when Elon took it over Twitter became very enjoyable I agree I agree yeah because well during the whole like like you know lockdown and wokeness and all that stuff Twitter and all the social media was getting um very encouraged by the CIA and FBI to quiet down like certain things and then like I don't know I like to see the discourse happening right or like it was so preachy from one angle yeah and it

10:06 was like it was just the woke leftist stuff right and I was like oh I don't I don't know I only went on Twitter to like see free porn but now I'm like now it's really not fun and then when he came on it's like having a troll CEO makes trolling really fun and then there's all these troll accounts that like are parity accounts and then they pretend to be certain like fake conservative fake liberal and I love that dude it got way less serious now it's yeah now it's so funny yeah right yeah yeah for for X it's interesting too because as much as some people say like you'll hear it all the time people go nobody ████ Twitter but that's honestly a lie dude because if you're running into tweets on Instagram you're not running into Instagrams on Twitter No it's like screen caps of tweets yeah you're still seeing tweets and ████ off the platform

10:57 and I think that's a big deal the same way we would see tick tocks on Instagram is the same thing it's like people are using it maybe you don't if you're saying like no one uses it but like someone's using it I'm not sports fans use it a lot I know yeah a lot of sports fans crypto space uses it a lot um stocks they use it a lot and on top of that uh I mean people that love only fans also soon X is gonna have an exchange on there too where you're going to be able to swap kryptos swap stop wow see that's the next level bro that's so crazy that's incredible that's smart because everybody wants their ████ on one spot anyway so you know how like during uh pre-pre-elon there would be like fact checking right so like people would post ████ and fact checking will come out when he got on they started fact checking the White House that's the best so in the White House was supposed that

11:48 was that was some tough ████ I was like oh my God they're all medicine I'll never forget when Biden got elected and that that July 4th he's like he they tweeted something from the White House account that was like you know I think July 4th is going to be cheaper than in last year by 18 cents or some ████ and like I remember just back then seeing like is does everyone see that this is complete ████ or what and then yeah when Community notes came out they did a similar tweet like about around some kind of holiday and it immediately got community noted yeah and I love that ████ right and it said like oh some facts are not in line with whatever the five yeah with the rate of inflation it's great to see that and they do that on on X now yeah oh that's it's called a community note where they do like a yeah they did it during Twitter so they would be talking about like how hey like jobs

12:39 are back inflation is down all this and then they got community noted like nah like everything's expensive what are you talking about that's tight and it's like it's not even about left or right people are working more jobs yeah yeah jobs are back but they're working more part-time jobs and people have multiple jobs now more than they did before and then they also were like it doesn't count if people come back from Lockdown to start working because it's like it's not new jobs created and they're also uncomfortably hustling it's not like oh I have a nice job and I'm chill it's like no they're not having a good time go talk to people they're serious they're stressed I really like in this climate of uh now that all this s███'s coming out with they're finding the records of of uh Facebook um Shadow Banning conservative pages and ████ yeah like at least there's something that's objectively calling out ████ on both sides yep that's what we all need right now I think we do

13:29 because it does happen on both sides it's not it's not yeah it's not one-sided you guys trying to line up it doesn't happen perfectly on both sides but it's happening at least it happens to my account because if I see some woke ████ I immediately block that person [Laughter] [Music]

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