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  palazzetto delle aste (@PalazzettoA) reported 2 minutes ago

  @mayemusk @boringcompany Vision: a PayPal and X merger as a global hub The starting point is the current situation with Stripe trying to acquire PayPal, a deal that creates strong concentration in the payments industry regardless of whether Musk is involved. The alternative vision is that Musk himself, one of PayPal’s original co-founders, should instead pursue a merger between PayPal and X, avoiding the need to route his own products through Stripe, which today feels like a contradiction. The structural advantage is that Revolut already proves you can offer instant credit, like loans issued in minutes, without being a traditional bank, operating instead under electronic money licenses. This allows you to bypass part of the classic regulatory rigidity, while still remaining subject to antitrust and compliance oversight. Direct experience with both payment systems matters here: PayPal settles funds immediately, while Stripe holds them for weeks despite lower fees, a real problem for anyone who needs to move cash quickly and pay suppliers on time. The core of the vision is building a fully vertical ecosystem: X becomes the platform, PayPal the payment and financing engine, and Musk’s products, Tesla, Starlink, the future Optimus robots, robotaxis, get sold directly with one click, financed through monthly installments charged to the PayPal card, without ever leaving the platform. In this scenario, X should not compete with TikTok on mass, low-price sales, but position itself for a high-spending audience, selling high-value goods like watches, used cars with built-in financing, premium products that justify real advertising investment, leaving low-margin mass sales to other platforms. The revenue model becomes multi-layered: income from advertising that sellers must buy to gain visibility on the platform, income from interest and fees on financing extended through the card, and lower credit risk because the system already knows users’ spending behavior thanks to artificial intelligence.

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  ‎ ⋆˚࿔𖦹 dvzed (@dangohs) reported 2 minutes ago

  OMGGGG same she was trying to scm me out of my tickets!! sent over a paypal link and she made excuses about it not working, woke up this morning and was blocked!!!

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  James Morris (@JamesMorri69549) reported 2 minutes ago

  @Venmo @PayPal Venmo is a joke they never help you with your problems on here I left a message yesterday yet they don’t respond also it’s kind stupid they don’t have emails to email them smh

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  Kmiller (@fade2rt) reported 6 minutes ago

  @annbauerwriter @intrnlcmbstn If you gave them cash would you be concerned about a tax dodge? Really- the tax problem is theirs. Security of your account is your problem. Set up a separate account for PayPal/venmo and only keep a minimal amount in it.

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  Yami Hikari ✨ EVERYSing for you (@Yami_Hikari1) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Kallynnei I'm still trying to pay, but god, why does it only accept PayPal? I don't have an account because I always run into some problem.

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  C B placeholder pending better days (@cbavington) reported 9 minutes ago

  @thetrainline The error for the card txns was not very helpful, just said "try again" (that's normal ofc, no merchant gives details of what might be wrong) but the PayPal error mentioned a problem with the "payment system" (this was 9-9:30 last night, Friday)

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  𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔟𝔦𝔡𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔭 (@morbidtrip) reported 9 minutes ago

  Also my PayPal is broken so I'm not gonna take commissions currently until I fix the issue :')

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  WonderOfU (@Asgorathyo) reported 9 minutes ago

  @MomoDearestt @ShuraGacha @AKEndfield ok... so what's the problem again? paypal is most likely also one of the motives of people leaving, but also the overall factory system is a well known filter and devs knew it and will deal with it by having a niche audience. end game is missing, true, but-

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  Robert J Abalos (@robertjabalos) reported 16 minutes ago

  @peak_skier @MPelletierCIO You are so correct. I gave up on eBay about six years ago. Too many slow or dead listings. Site is overrun with scammers who file chargebacks after receiving items. Ironically, the site ran better before PayPal when buyers would mail envelopes with money orders or cash.

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  ‎ ⋆˚࿔𖦹 dvzed (@dangohs) reported 18 minutes ago

  what is wrong with people i had someone try and buy my ari tickets for 2 days, claiming theres issues with their paypal i messaged them last night to ask if they'd fixed the issue and they've blocked me and changed their entire profile scamming freaks oh my god

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  Justin (@JustinCrestwood) reported 22 minutes ago

  @purplepickle743 @lifeofpkay_ Send PayPal ;) But really, it's always the same with these people. They are obviously always eating/drinking more calories, say they aren't, and then turn down any help with tracking. They have to know they're blatantly lying, no? I don't get it.

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  Penny Wise (@wise145485) reported 25 minutes ago

  @annbauerwriter I've never run into that problem but I can see how it would happen. A lot of people are moving away from cash or checks. I do some digital money such as Zelle and PayPal but only with trusted vendors. For you it sounds like it now needs to be an up front question.

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  Chris Shipley (@shipleycgm) reported 25 minutes ago

  This is an awful experience, and why the convenience of payment processors like PayPal are not in your favor if you experience trouble like this. American Express credit card? Easy chargeback. Also be wary of debit cards, they don't operate the same way as credit cards.

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  The maestro (@maestroslay) reported 25 minutes ago

  Elon Musk sat on a conference sofa in November 2008 with both his companies weeks from running out of money and the credit markets frozen shut. Lehman had collapsed 8 weeks earlier. No investor in the room was writing cheques for an electric car startup. Tesla had laid off staff in October and was down to a balance that would not clear another payroll cycle. Watch how he handles the funding question. He is being asked to defend a business that had already burned through most of what he made at PayPal. The Model S existed as a plan and a price nobody believed, and the Roadster was shipping in small numbers at a loss per car. Six weeks after this conversation the Tesla round closed on Christmas Eve. He was on a sofa arguing for a company he was days from losing.

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  SheSaidWhat (@orangehelicop) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Mickskinz @Spanishape29 Just log into your banking app, go to payments, then choose scheduled payments, scroll down the DD list and click cancel on the Paypal one.