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Jakarta – A billionaire, Elon Musk plans to turn X – formerly known Twitter to become dating app as part of its efforts to turn it into the everything app.
X, last October held a company-wide meeting to mark the one-year anniversary of the company's US$44 billion acquisition by the Musk-led investor group, at which Musk said that it will become a "fully fledged" dating site in 2024.
This isn’t the first time that Musk has flirted with the idea of adding dating app functionality to the X platform.
In May, Musk responded to a user’s pitch for dating functionality on "Twinder," saying it's an "interesting idea, maybe jobs too,"
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Steven Mark Ryan, a content creator on YouTube who posts videos on tech and finance news emphasized that an opt-in dating app on the platform might actually save humanity from extinction by potentially solving declining fertility rates in developing countries and would be 10x better than conventional dating apps.
He posted the pitch in response to Elon Musk raising concerns about population collapse due to a study showing declining fertility rates in Nordic countries.
It’s unclear what Musk has in mind for dating app features on X and what the timeline for those might be beyond his statement that it would happen next year.
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Business Insider’s report indicated Musk didn’t go into detail about the dating app idea during the company meeting. He also reportedly mentioned the platform is looking at adding banking and money transfer services by going through state-level regulatory approval processes.
The value of the social media platform has declined over the past year since Musk’s group of investors bought it for US$44 billion and took the company private.
X employees were offered new stock options viewed by Fortune that valued the company at US$19 billion. That’s down slightly from the roughly US $20 billion it was worth in March, a figure that was reported by The Wall Street Journal.
