During an employee all-hands, Musk said that Twitter became X to replace YouTube, LinkedIn, FaceTime, dating apps, and even your bank.
Elon Musk says the change is meant to “maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism.”
A study earlier this month found X Premium verified users were getting heavy engagement as “superspreaders of misinformation” about the Israel-Hamas war.
This was his advice to employees during his first companywide meeting since renaming Twitter to X: “In any given meeting, make sure there is at least one piece of bad news. You can have more than one piece of bad news. If you’re in a meeting with me, always bring up at least one bit of bad news or more than that.”
I have more from inside X’s first big all hands with Musk and Linda Yaccarino in this week’s Command Line:
It’s been a year of personal grudges, harebrained rebrands, and jolting policy shifts. And those aren’t even the worst parts.
The sightlines from the Cybertruck interior should be interesting once the first deliveries happen next month.
X marks the spot, now located far below where it was last year ever since Elon Musk started meddling. The WSJ maps the decline in terms of active users, app downloads, ad money spent, and perceived value using lots of easy to understand charts.
Tesla Owners Silicon Valley posted a video of an apparently bullet-pocked Cybertruck driving on a highway at night.
Musk replied to a repost of it, claiming that the dents were from “the entire drum magazine of a Tommy gun” and “no bullets penetrated into the passenger compartment.”
I’m going back to sleep.
Bloomberg had the story a few weeks ago after listening in on a call between X CEO Linda Yaccarino and Twitter debt holders. Premium plans currently start at $8/mth ($84/yr) and show about 50 percent fewer ads. X is also testing charging every new user $1/year just to post because you gotta make up for a plummet in ad revenue somehow.
During Tesla’s Q3 earnings call, an investor mentions that Mercedes says it’ll accept legal liability for its Level 3 autonomous system, and asks if Tesla will do the same. Musk replies with a laugh: “There’s a lot of people who assume we have legal liability... judging by the lawsuits.”
Musk also said FSD is only available in North America because in the US “you can deploy things at risk or take liability,” whereas other countries have extensive approval programs.
