Musk teases social media platform

Elon Musk on Tuesday evening appeared to tease creating his own social media platform if he does not ultimately buy Twitter.

 

“Have you thought about creating your own social platform? If Twitter deal doesn’t come through,” an account titled Tesla Owners Silicon Valley asked the billionaire on Twitter.

 

“X.com,” Musk wrote in response.

 

In 1999, Musk co-founded an online financial services company with the same name. X.com merged in 2000 with Confinity, which developed the PayPal electronic payment system.

 

The domain for Musk’s former company now connects users to a page that displays a singular “x” on a blank background.