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Twitter Inc. has merged into Elon Musk’s X corporation and some now believe that Twitter is “dead.”
“A filing at Southern District of Florida shows that Twitter Inc has merged with X Corp and now Twitter no longer exists. X Corp’s parent company is X Holding Corps. The new phase of Twitter will be X Corp. Is this the start of the everything app?” Mario Nawfal said on Twitter.
On Monday, Musk tweeted the single letter “X,” another hint that the CEO intends to create an “everything app,” which he hinted at before he became the owner of the company.
“Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app,” he said in a tweet before he became the owner of the company.
Business Insider reported:
The Twitter chief developed an affinity for the letter back in the 1990s, founding the company “X.com” which later became PayPal. Musk then repurchased the domain name in 2017, and now appears to be starting to put together his new scheme.
That seems to include a payment service, as Twitter applied for regulatory licenses after his takeover, per the Financial Times. He previously suggested he could be inspired by the Chinese app WeChat, which includes banking, ride-sharing services, and video chatting.
#BREAKING: Twitter is Dead
A filing at Southern District of Florida shows that Twitter Inc has merged with X Corp and now Twitter no longer exists.
X Corp’s parent company is X Holding Corps.
The new phase of Twitter will be X Corp.
Is this the start of the everything app? pic.twitter.com/vposdXKbGV
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 11, 2023
Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2022
“It does everything — sort of like Twitter, plus PayPal, plus a whole bunch of things, and all rolled into one, with a great interface,” Musk said. “It’s really an excellent app, and we don’t have anything like that outside of China.”
As part of a lawsuit in Florida over suspended accounts, the company said “Twitter, Inc. has been merged into X Corp. and no longer exists.”
Musk, known for issuing sarcastic and snarky responses to political events on the platform that usually don’t bode well for Democrats, called the party out again last Tuesday following former President Donald Trump’s appearance in a Manhattan courtroom, where he pleaded not guilty to dozens of felony charges.
Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, tweeted a meme containing a decades-old photo of a much younger Trump, which said: “Why do time travelers keep trying to kill me? I’m just a realtor!” — Donald Trump, 1980.
In the post, Musk wrote: “If the Dem Party had a time machine.”
If the Dem Party had a time machine pic.twitter.com/a1QE7JcGLB
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 4, 2023
“To avoid losing the trust of the American public, it is important that our justice system pursue Democrats and Republicans with equal vigor,” Musk wrote later in response to a tweet from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. “Whichever party most puts justice before nepotism is the one that deserves trust.
To avoid losing the trust of the American public, it is important that our justice system pursue Democrats and Republicans with equal vigor.
Whichever party most puts justice before nepotism is the one that deserves trust.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 4, 2023
Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 charges regarding allegations that he falsified business records related to adult film star Stormy Daniels’ hush-money case. Trump was indicted late last week by a Manhattan grand jury in a case involving his purported role in hush money payments to Daniels ahead of the 2016 election, allegedly to keep Daniels quiet about an affair the two of them had in 2006.
However, Bragg’s case against Trump is so weak that several liberal outlets are even pointing it out.
Ian Millhiser, a senior correspondent at Vox, wrote: “There is something painfully anticlimactic about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment of former President Trump. It concerns not Trump’s efforts to overthrow the duly elected government of the United States, but his alleged effort to cover up a possible extramarital affair with a porn star. And there’s a very real risk that this indictment will end in an even bigger anticlimax. It is unclear that the felony statute that Trump is accused of violating actually applies to him.”
Mark Stern, a writer for the liberal outlet Slate, published a story titled “The Trump Indictment Is Not the Slam-Dunk Case Democrats Wanted.”
John Bolton — who served as a national security adviser in the Trump administration and has since come out against Trump’s 2024 campaign — appeared on CNN and blasted the charges filed against his ex-boss, former President Trump, saying the indictment was “even weaker than I feared it would be.”
“Speaking as someone who very strongly does not want Donald Trump to get the Republican presidential nomination, I’m extraordinarily distressed by this document,” Bolton said on CNN. “I think this is even weaker than I feared it would be.”
Notorious anti-Trump GOP Sen. Mitt Romney issued a statement saying: “I believe President Trump’s character and conduct make him unfit for office. Even so, I believe the New York prosecutor has stretched to reach felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda. No one is above the law, not even former presidents, but everyone is entitled to equal treatment under the law. The prosecutor’s overreach sets a dangerous precedent for criminalizing political opponents and damages the public’s faith in our justice system.”
