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Elon Musk may launch Xmail. Photo Courtesy: PIB

Xmail: Elon Musk hints at launching his own e-mail service, internet reacts

| @indiablooms | Dec 17, 2024, at 03:22 pm

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has confirmed he is planning to introduce an e-mail service which could potentially challenge Google's widely used Gmail.'

Elon gave a hint about introducing his own e-mail service while giving a reply to a post by an independent App Researcher Nima Owji who said: "Having an @‌x.‌com email address is the only thing that can stop me from using Gmail!"

Musk wrote sharing Owji's remark: "Interesting. We need to rethink how messaging, including email, works overall."

Musk dropped a similar hint in another X post by a user named Doge Designer where he wrote: "š¯•¸ Mail would be cool. username@š¯•¸.com."

Musk said: "Yeah. On the list of things to do."

The speculation over the new e-mail service triggered a massive response from X users.

One internet user wrote: "I would use it. I’m still waiting for my X Phone @cb_doge."

Another said: "š¯•¸ is becoming the EVERYTHING app."

"Power move waiting to happen, make it real @elonmusk," an X user wrote.

As per a Forbes report, Gmail has 2.5 billion users which stands for a third of the world’s population.

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