Billionaire Elon Musk has ranked Twitter in more ways than one. Now, however, the company itself is officially no longer its own entity, having been officially gobbled up by Musk’s X Corp. And it marks the Blue Bird app owner’s first official move to reinvent Twitter into a quirky version of its former self, though it’s still keeping the former baggage for the ride.
Of course, neither Musk nor Twitter made that clear. The news actually stems from a far-right, anti-Muslim conspiracy theory Failed Congressional Candidate Laura Loomer. She previously sued Twitter and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey along with Mark Zuckerberg and Meta to kick her account off their platforms. according to April 4th court filing In the ongoing lawsuit, “Twitter, Inc. was merged into X Corp. and is no longer in existence.” Le Maire tweeted about the change on Monday.
X Corp is also owned by X Holdings Corp. Another lawsuit is ongoing Against the company brought by two Florida attorneys who were also blocked on Twitter, X Corp is incorporated in Nevada and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
On Tuesday, Musk chirp “X” as if to confirm what the court documents say officially. Musk’s trademark “X” has always been his attempt to create a so-called app for everything. in previous tweetsMusk said Twitter was an “accelerator to create X, the app for everything.” He added that buying the platform speeds up the creation of X “by 3 to 5 years, but I could be wrong.”
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The billionaire owner of Twitter spoke of WeChat as an example. Last October, after he officially assumed the CEO position, he said the staff During an internal town hall that the China-centric app “is actually a great, great app, but there’s no WeChat movement outside of China. And I think there’s a real opportunity to make that happen. You basically live on WeChat in China because it’s so useful.”
Of course, WeChat is an example of a walled garden application monopoly Pushing competition outside of China due to its expendable nature. Tencentthe owner of WeChat, has also been criticized in the West for flatter to the Beijing government Control and monitoring device.
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