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He has been hounding x.com since before the paypal days. This is him finally having his toy.
What was it all about before being desecrated by Musk?
I think you meant to reply to a different comment of mine. Musky boi here wanted Paypal to be X.com before being mutinied from his position as CEO because x.com sounds like a porn site.
Twitter on the other hand was for quick sharing of information in under a specified word count, like a bird tweeting. It was a primary source of information for a lot before its possession and subsequent consumption by a billionaire 1950's fridge
Nono. X.com redirects to Twitter. It wasn't always like that, right? What did x.com host before?
Between 2017 and today, it was a mostly-blank page with the letter "x": https://web.archive.org/web/20230722020649/http://x.com/