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TWITTER Is Now X · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  So it's official. Twitter is now X. Well, sword of on the
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  desktop, it shows the X now where the bird used to be, although
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  it's still Twitter dot com on mobile, it's still the bird. It looks
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  like they're gonna slow roll this out a little bit, which makes sense when
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  you're changing branding for something as established as Twitter. But then that breeds the
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  question why change it at all? If everybody knows what Twitter is, what
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  tweeting is, why change that? Why fix something that ain't broke? And
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  it seems the answer is that X is not going to just be Twitter,
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  or it's not gonna just do what Twitter does. And I've got a video
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  where he briefly talks about it. But first let's just look at this article,
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  Twitter becomes X the future of the Everything app. Elon Musk announced the
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  rebranding of Twitter into X over the weekend in a move to create and everything
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  app with unlimited interactivity. And as much as I like what Elon Musk has
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  done with the Twitter platform now X, I do have reservations about everything apps.
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  Well, we'll get into that later. A Musk envisions X as a
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  platform that will encompass social updates, plus payments, banking, and more.
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  Yeah, apparently there's supposed to be an XTV coming out which is supposed to
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  compete with primarily YouTube, and you'll be able to get that on your Roku
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  and your Apple TV. And I personally am looking forward to that happening.
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  But yeah, there'll be a lot more too. I mean, I think
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  when Elon Musk says everything, I think he pretty much means everything. At
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  Twitter, CEO believes that X will be a hub of unlimited interaction and possibilities.
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  So Elon's been hinting at this for a while. Here's from April in
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  twenty twenty three. He's got the X logo there and he just typed X
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  here in October fourth, twenty twenty two, he said buying Twitter is an
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  accelerant to creating X the everything app, And he's been talking for years about
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  in everything app and buying Twitter obviously accelerates that by years not having to start
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  from scratch. Here's what the new CEO said, Linda Yacarino. X is
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  the future state of unlimited interactivity centered in audio, video, messaging, payments,
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  banking, creating a global marketplace for ideas, good services, and opportunities
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  powered by AI. X will connect us. All in ways, we're just
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  beginning to imagine. Well, I do have to say that when it comes
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  to AI running everything, I actually can't imagine. So it'll be social media,
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  I'll be imaging, it'll still do what it does now, Plus it
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  will have YouTube functionality, messaging, payments, banking. Obviously, it seems
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  like he's envisioning an Amazon kind of future for it as well. So there
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  are things in here that do concern me a little. But anytime there's a
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  mention of AI doing things, there is a certain just hint of dystopian future
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  there and connecting as all in ways, we're just beginning to imagine kind of
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  the same thing. Could be really good, could be really bad. I
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  guess the way that a nuclear bomb can destroy your city, but nuclear power
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  can also power that city. And you know, just like with nuclear physics.
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  Well, the futures come in one way or another. Here we have
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  the X projected onto the Twitter building and this may well be a historic moment.
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  Let's hear what Elon musk hat to say about his concept of the everything.
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  App Essentially, if theft on right, the X would be with people's
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  financial needs to such a degree that over time it would become I don't know,
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  maybe half of the global financial system wow, or some big number,
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  I'm not sure what. The numbers were pretty big, So it would be
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  by far the biggest sort of financial institution, I said, not really in
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  the way that people are used to thinking about banks. Just the most efficient
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  database for the thing that is money, they said, like the least amount
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  of fraud. Everything's real time and if it involves money in any way to
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  be dealt with seamlessly. On one level, okay, So an efficient database
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  for the thing that is money with the least amount of fraud and works in
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  real time. So I just get nervous when I see things starting to become
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  centralized too much, because in the wrong hands, it just makes it so
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  much easier to cancel people, to control people through fear. And I'm not
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  saying that Elon has malevolent intent. I don't think that he does. But
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  it's the sort of thing somebody could get too dependent on regarding their own personal
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  f finances, their business ventures, etc. And again it could make it
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  very easy to control people. But in short, what do I think of
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  this? Well, I mean, on one hand, you have the possibility
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  of even greater convenience than we have now, and doubtlessly new opportunities, but
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  as well, it might be just part of the slow, blind walk into
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  authoritarianism. Who knows, Not that I think that that's what Elon Musk's intention
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  is, but you know best laid plants of mice and men, you know
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  how it goes. Anyway, Please subscribe, like and share. Sharing really
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  helps me out. I thank you for that. I will see you next time.