Twitter Reacts To Elon Musk's X.Com Launch

Elon Musk announced the launch of his new website x.com on Twitter on Friday. Musk, who owns Tesla, SolarCity, and SpaceX tweeted Monday he had brought back the domain from PayPal, which he owned in 1999. At that time, he had no plans for the website and it had just sentimental value for him.

On Friday, he went back on his word and stated even though the website was a ‘little verbose’ currently, there are changes coming tomorrow.

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He was also a little evasive to Twitter users who asked him what x.com was all about.

Social media users were quick to react to the entrepreneur’s newest acquisition — some of them commented about the site’s search engine optimization and its Google ranking.

Some responded with memes, comic photos, and funny comments.

Others asked some pertinent questions.

X.com has had a history of its own. The domain was previously used for Musk’s online financial services and email-payment company by the same name. The company was merged with Confinity in 2000, which owned a money transfer service called PayPal, commonly known for its online transfers.

Musk was later removed from his position as the CEO due to disagreements about moving PayPal’s infrastructure to Microsoft Windows. While PayPal was later acquired by eBay, the x.com domain still remained with the company until Musk finally acquired it from PayPal recently.

Chances are that Musk might not be starting x.com again as a financial services company. It might actually refer to his space exploration company — SpaceX. Musk founded SpaceX, also known as Space Exploration Technologies in 2002. The company was relatively unknown till 2012 when it became the first commercial company to launch and berth a vehicle to the International Space Station. SpaceX is one of two private company which has been awarded contracts by NASA to transport astronauts to the international space station.

So, what could Musk be indicating with the x.com launch?

While nothing is known yet, thanks to Musk’s cryptic tweets, chances are that the domain might actually be updated with information Musk’s human spaceflight endeavor, the Commercial Crew Development Program, which is expected to demonstrate its astronaut transport capability by next year. As the date draws near and since the ‘X’ is common between SpaceX and x.com, this is an educated guess as to what x.com represents.

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X.com might be a domain in furtherance of Musk’s aim to enhance spaceflight and make it more viable. Since SpaceX is the largest private producer of rocket engines and Musk already has his hands on many space technologies, chances are that he might reveal his plans for SpaceX on x.com tomorrow.

An alternate, a boring possibility is that it might just be a representative website for SpaceX or it might be actually about his ‘boring company.’ We will have to wait until tomorrow to find out.