If Elon Musk thinks he's going to make X better with dating app functions, he's mistaken. Credit: Bob Al-Greene / Mashable Twitter/X owner Elon Musk loves to announce lofty promises — and now he has one related to love itself: that X will soon be a dating app, as well as a replacement for LinkedIn, YouTube, and banks, among other things. In a recently leaked all-hands call, Musk said he wants X to be an "everything app." What Musk appears to not know is that Twitter is — or at least, was, before he took over and traffic and revenue crashed — already a fine place to meet people. I should know, because I met my partner on Twitter back in 2021: The best sex and dating apps for finding a hookup Meanwhile, Musk appears to care more about people calling him "cis" than the fact that Twitter's valuation is nosediving. Turning Twitter — sorry, "X" — into a dating app or "everything app" doesn't make sense and doesn't even seem feasible at this current moment. I wouldn't be surprised, however, if this goal of an everything app never comes to pass. Musk has made false promises in the past, and this could be just another one. Over the years, for example, he has claimed that Tesla would soon produce fully autonomous vehicles; that has yet to happen. This year, Musk also claimed that his brain implant device company Neuralink was preparing for human trials after testing on monkeys, and that no monkey died as a result of the trial. This isn't true. Wired reported that some monkeys did die in Neuralink trials, after experiencing torturous conditions due to the implant. Twitter was far from perfect before Musk took over, but it was the "digital town square" where folks would meet and chat. It's only degraded in the past year, and if Musk thinks he can revive it with dating app functions, he's mistaken. Honestly, just download Tinder. Topics