Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla companies, gave up on this decision last month while trying to buy Twitter since April. Musk, who had a disagreement with Twitter management due to bot accounts on Twitter, while suing the company, finally shared a statement today, whose seriousness is unknown.
Musk, who sold $ 7 billion worth of Tesla shares the other day, made a surprise statement in a conversation on Twitter. Asked by one account, “If the Twitter deal doesn’t happen, have you thought about creating your own social platform?” Answering the question, Musk replied only “X.com” to the question.
X on X.com doesn’t really mean ‘unknown’:
- Left: Peter Thiel, Right: Elon Musk
This domain was founded directly by Musk as an online bank in 1999 with Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne and Ed Ho. Moreover, Musk bought the “x.com” domain name back from PayPal in 2017. In fact, Musk announced that he bought this domain name, which remained within the company after leaving PayPal, in 2017 with the following words:
“Thanks PayPal for letting me get X.com back! I don’t have a plan right now, but it has great sentimental value to me.”
Did Musk sell the $7 billion stake to build his own social media platform?
This share, which came just at the moment when Musk sold his $ 7 billion share, brought up the possibility that this money could be used directly by Musk to establish his own social media platform, not for a possible Twitter purchase, contrary to popular belief. Although there is no clear answer from Musk on this issue, we can expect Musk’s new agenda to be about X.com soon.
So what’s on X.com right now?
When you visit X.com right now, you only see an ‘x’. When we look at the codes of the website, we can see that there is nothing behind it, only the codes that will cause the text ‘x’ to appear. There is no information in the domain name information of the website. In the information, only the domain name is registered by GoDaddy.
You can watch our video below for details about Elon Musk’s career, including X.com, that you probably haven’t heard before.
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