X Money

[RooflessVW]

Its clearly targeted to people that aleady are X Premium+ subscribers - so they would be paying it anyway.

Imagine paying $500 a year for Twitter.

 

[alarmguy]

I realize that you likely won't be able to get money from your local branch which is concerning. Regarding Musk and his genius he has demonstrated his willingness to disrupt people's lives wholesale (DOGE) and his apparent micromanagement leadership would make it not outside the realm of possibility that he would fiddle with his online bank. Not a Musk hater or worshiper just not willing to enter his world of crazy genius for a couple of percentage points.

Any online bank you set up a local physical bank for those times that you might need one then if you need for some reason a huge amount of cash you transfer it locally. Our physical bank I use maybe once every five years, if that.

 

[Pablo]

I don't see the controversy. It's not the first online banking without local brick and mortar locations. Most people use ATMs for cash and established banks have been closing physical locations all over the country. I see a lot of luddites, MDS, and people who think everything is a scam.
Don't like it, don't use it. This isn't Cuba or PRC.

People just need to express hate for Musk. They just can't contain it. This whole thing has become fascinating to me as I age into oblivion.

 

[dogememe]

you might be right. Im trying to find the musk x money

Currently only if you have X Premium+ will it maybe show up on the X website/app. There is no separate site for it. As a lowly Premium (non+) subscriber I guess I'm left out

 

[alarmguy]

Currently only if you have X Premium+ will it maybe show up on the X website/app. There is no separate site for it. As a lowly Premium (non+) subscriber I guess I'm left out

I got ahead of myself as I posted #41
Thanks for your correction. You are correct, there is no separate site. Many sites have picked up variations of "x" websites I see.
I think it is still in beta and think you are correct. Premium+ subscribers.

 

[SC Maintenance]

X has a lot of baggage that comes along with it and it is not merely a business.
Given the high levels of dissatisfaction with X it is not a place I'd chose to park my money.
X has the Trustpilot rating of a scam site.
You've also failed to explain how any of this is even remotely similar to an airline, other than to assert that both are businesses offering a service.
By that standard, so is a drug dealer.

You realize Trustpilot is an outright scam right - reference some blumberg articles on that. Anyway not to get too far sideways.

You have to give far less information to X to sign up for a Premium+ membership than you do an airline. You can chose to post or not. I am not telling you to sign up, just making a comparison.

If you don't like X or Elon then you should not do business with them of course. But back to your vitriol is simply your hatred of social media in general or Elon specifically - which is your prerogative, but adds nothing to the fintech discussion.

So would you have interest if a business (non bank) offered the same thing? That was my fundamental question. I don't honestly care who you like or dislike.

 

[fdcg27]

You realize Trustpilot is an outright scam right - reference some blumberg articles on that. Anyway not to get too far sideways.

You have to give far less information to X to sign up for a Premium+ membership than you do an airline. You can chose to post or not. I am not telling you to sign up, just making a comparison.

If you don't like X or Elon then you should not do business with them of course. But back to your vitriol is simply your hatred of social media in general or Elon specifically - which is your prerogative, but adds nothing to the fintech discussion.

So would you have interest if a business (non bank) offered the same thing? That was my fundamental question. I don't honestly care who you like or dislike.

Vitriol and hatred of Elon merely because I object to the ruin that has been made of Twitter?
To call Trustpilot a scam is no more than shooting the messenger.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Imagine paying $500 a year for Twitter.

Its not. The Twitter side is completely free.

You can pay $3 a month for add free if you want. You can pay $8 a month if you want to essentially use it as your PR platform which many do.

The Premium+ is the subscription to the Grok AI model and throws in a all the X stuff. $400 for a professional AI model is fairly cheap - if obviously you have use for any AI model which most do not.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Vitriol and hatred of Elon merely because I object to the ruin that has been made of Twitter?
To call Trustpilot a scam is no more than shooting the messenger.

Ahh, now I get your angle. Sorry that Twitter no longer suppresses one side of the argument. / sarc.

Trustpilot is absolutely a scam. Its a Fremium service - where companies can pay for and manage there own account, and invite reviewers and squash negative reviews. Its about as useful as an amazon review, maybe less. There is a reason its US founder went public in England not here.

 

[Astro14]

With the demographics of BITOG "fintech" should be defined/explained in the first sentence for everyone else but the 6 members who embrace this stuff. First I've ever seen the word which should make it obvious where I stand on whatever it is. IMO it's bad enough that if the internet goes down our (collective) funds are untouchable but to link that reality somehow with social media platforms is next level foolish for the reasons the OP lists. But what do I know...

Because, “old people don’t know anything”?

Or, “old guys don’t understand Tech”?

Your comment is offensive.

And since this entire threat has devolved into bickering over Elon Musk, it’s now closed