Re:X.com
by TRiG_Ireland on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:46AM
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The only reason I'd ever use anything like that would be to send money to a person (not a business) in a non-SEPA country. And for that, I'd use PayPal. What's the business case for this X? How does it improve anything?
There's plenty of ways to do that today already including ubiquitous SWIFT transfers almost any bank supports. Plus several startups and tech companies who offer similar services.
One doesn't need twitter for that (nor crypto currencies, which was yesterday's 'money transfer to foreign lands' big promise)
I don't shop on twitter. Why would I shop on twitter?
Honestly I can't follow the example at all. What does banking (one thing billionaire genius Musk wants to do on twitter) have to do with sending 140 character text posts? I don't see any kind of connection there at all.
Meanwhile Flight Search is a type of Search. The name kind of gives it away.
Well how much do you use Twitter in general?
It better to think of WeChat like an iPhone as opposed to Twitter. So rather than opening up the Amazon App you can navigate to JD's store on WeChat. Obviously if you don't use WeChat / Twitter then them gaining a app store-lite feature isn't useful to you but cross-selling is a successful practice.
I'm sure JCPenny / etc would love if you could buy on Twitter though. Replace ad fees with just a simple %-age cut of the sale.
Google didn't start adding the ability to do flights in the search engine because nobody was using that. People love one stop shopping.