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World's first trillionaire recieves money from fans
Key takeaways
- The payments service built into X (formely Twitter) expanded to a wider set of U.S. users on June 25, after months of delays.
- Almost immediately, people began wiring the world's richest man small amounts just to watch it work.
- "Call me an idiot, but I just sent $25 directly to Elon Musk, the richest man in the world using @XMoney for no other reason than I just can," one user, Corey, posted.
World's first trillionaire recieves money from fans World's first trillionaire recieves money from fans · The Street Mehab Qureshi Fri, June 26, 2026 at 10:05 PM GMT+7 4 min read Elon Musk's X Money is finally reaching more people, and one of the first things some of them did with it was send Musk himself money, for no reason at all.
The payments service built into X (formely Twitter) expanded to a wider set of U.S. users on June 25, after months of delays.
Almost immediately, people began wiring the world's richest man small amounts just to watch it work.
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