{"id":144150,"date":"2022-08-16T00:23:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/elon-musk-teases-his-website-x-com-as-a-potential-twitter-competitor-as-he-barrels-toward-44-billion-trial-in-october"},"modified":"2022-08-16T00:23:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:23:30","slug":"elon-musk-teases-his-website-x-com-as-a-potential-twitter-competitor-as-he-barrels-toward-44-billion-trial-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/elon-musk-teases-his-website-x-com-as-a-potential-twitter-competitor-as-he-barrels-toward-44-billion-trial-in-october","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk teases his website \u2018X.com\u2019 as a potential Twitter competitor as he barrels toward $44 billion trial in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/49e7LrxS3FQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Musk responded to a question on Twitter as to whether he\u2019d launch his own site by simply <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1557199404301307904\">tweeting<\/a> \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/X.com\">X.com<\/a>\u201d on Tuesday. The comment came after it was <a href=\"https:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/news\/stocks\/elon-musk-sells-8-million-tesla-shares-7-billion-twitter-2022-8\">revealed<\/a> that the billionaire had sold 7.92 million Tesla shares worth $6.9 billion ahead of the very real chance he could be forced to purchase Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the (hopefully unlikely) event that Twitter forces this deal to close *and* some equity partners don\u2019t come through, it is important to avoid an emergency sale of Tesla stock,\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1557198421206769664\">said<\/a> about the sale on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time that the billionaire has hinted at launching a direct competitor to Twitter. Ahead of his Twitter takeover offer, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/05\/17\/elon-musk-considered-launching-twitter-competitor\/\">told<\/a> Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal he had considered creating his own platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musk responded to a question on Twitter as to whether he\u2019d launch his own site by simply tweeting \u201cX.com\u201d on Tuesday. The comment came after it was revealed that the billionaire had sold 7.92 million Tesla shares worth $6.9 billion ahead of the very real chance he could be forced to purchase Twitter. \u201cIn the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}