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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Elon is rebranding Twitter completely

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

WIBC

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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0:00.0

And of course, just yesterday, Twitter changed to X, and they're calling that the future state

0:07.8

of unlimited interactivity. They're saying now that Twitter's going to be based around audio,

0:13.4

video messaging, payments, banking, and even creating a global marketplace for ideas,

0:20.7

goods, services, and opportunities. And this is going to be powered by AI. I told you that that

0:26.4

X change on Twitter was not just a rebrand. This is like a whole new way of using Twitter because

0:32.4

they want to compete with WhatsApp. Well, it's not going to be, you know, it's not going to be

0:36.9

for me. It's going to be for me. It's going to be 280 characters, thoughts usually insulting a

0:42.4

government official of some sort. What scares you more about this change? Is it the fact that they're

0:47.1

going to allow you to banking within your Twitter app, or is it because it's powered by AI?

0:52.9

Well, it's all of the above. Again, it doesn't matter to me. I mean, I fear for the people who

0:58.0

continue to subject themselves to all of this stuff. Now, I don't do the online banking or any of

1:04.0

that stuff because, well, I just don't like technology. And I think I've been largely proven

1:11.9

correct based on much of, no, look, there is obviously like modern medicine, clearly technological

1:17.3

advances in modern medicine has been very helpful for society. I'm not a person who yells at

1:22.2

clouds about things like that. But what I am saying is what possible reason would you need to have

1:31.0

your banking set up through Twitter? You know where you want your banking set up your bank?

1:35.9

Yeah. Yeah. Well, and that's the thing they want to make it one app so you can do everything

1:41.3

right there. The more centralized access you give to people you don't know. And let's say,

1:48.3

you can think whatever you want about Elon Musk as a human being, as an entrepreneur,

1:51.8

as an inventor, whatever. You don't know him and he's not your friend and he exists for control

1:57.2

and to make money. Now, he is more, he has created a platform that is more open than other people,

2:03.4

but he's doing that for his own purposes, right? I am not under the delusion of, oh my gosh,

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