Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank
www.theverge.com
Musk wants your “entire financial life” on his platform.

“If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”

Well that sounds terrifying!

  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Big chunk of the funding is from the Saudis though - and they have a very vested interest in trashing twitter.

    It’s also entirely possible the truth is somewhere in between - people who knew he couldn’t manage his way out a paper bag working ego boy into buying twitter and ketting the inevitable happen. He’s not exactly hard to manipulate.

    • Kowowow@lemmy.caEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      Could have been both, twitter gets messed with enough to drive off normal people and musk gets to rebuild it from the ground up afterwards using what ever is left or they knew musk would be poison to twitter and let him just have fun with it

      • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        “I’m sorry but i just sacrificed a very expensive social media just to get some quet time”

        I have no idea why the idea of twitter being the meat-filled pumpkin they threw into Musk’s enclosure to keep him busy cracks me up so hard, it just does