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Elon Musk’s first meeting with Twitter employees

by kaladin_1 on 11/14/22, 10:03 AM with 5 comments

• by mudrockbestgirl on 11/14/22, 10:16 AM

  > I think there’s this transformative opportunity in payments. And payments really are just the exchange of information. From an information standpoint, not a huge difference between, say, just sending a direct message and sending a payment. They are basically the same thing. In principle, you can use a direct messaging stack for payments. And so that’s definitely a direction we’re going to go in, enabling people on Twitter to be able to send money anywhere in the world instantly and in real time. We just want to make it as useful as possible.

  > If you can simply have one balance on Twitter that can simply go positive or a negative, and when it goes positive, the interest rate is better than what you could receive elsewhere, and when it goes negative, the interest rate is lower than what you see elsewhere, now you have a much simpler system.

  Interesting choice of direction...

• by anshumankmr on 11/14/22, 10:15 AM

  It would be easier said than done to poach YouTubers.