Sports betting is coming to X with BetMGM partnership | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
from Albin8665@endlesstalk.org to technology@lemmy.world on 10 Feb 2024 07:20
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Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world on 10 Feb 2024 07:23 next collapse

Well, gambling is certainly a tried and true way to make a buck.

Gloria@sh.itjust.works on 10 Feb 2024 07:48 next collapse

Except when your your name is Donald Trump and your father has to come to your casino to buy millions worth in chips to bail you out.

CosmoNova@lemmy.world on 10 Feb 2024 08:53 next collapse

It’s the ultimate form of capitalism and trickle up economics. Fits Xitter like a glove.

jol@discuss.tchncs.de on 10 Feb 2024 09:03 collapse

Back in the Facebook days around the turn of the decade, I knew a guy banking thousands weekly on fortune telling apps within Facebook. This was before Facebook started controlling what user data apps could see. He was selling user data to brokers and bragging to us in an Economics 101 class. Scammers will always find ways to suck the vulnerable dry.

autotldr@lemmings.world on 10 Feb 2024 07:25 next collapse

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, has forged a deal with a sports betting operator, BetMGM, the companies announced on Friday.

Initially, X users in the U.S. will be able to explore the betting odds on pro football, with more professional and college sports to roll out over time.

We’re bringing sports fans on X even closer to the action so they can cheer, and now bet, on their favorite teams,” said X CEO Linda Yaccarino in a statement about the new deal.

His vision has expanded beyond social networking to see X becoming an “everything app,” so to speak, which includes not just text posts and media, but also creator content, subscriptions, live and recorded video, online shopping, payments and more.

Reached for comment, a rep for X didn’t offer details about if or how X would generate revenue from its new deal with BetMGM, but there’s likely an agreement in place, given the integration work required.

Late last year, big-name brands like Apple, Disney, IBM and others put their campaigns on pause after Musk endorsed an antisemitic post, for example.


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banghida@lemm.ee on 10 Feb 2024 07:48 next collapse

Lmao

Sibbo@sopuli.xyz on 10 Feb 2024 07:52 next collapse

How low can you go?

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flathead@lemm.ee on 10 Feb 2024 08:32 collapse

I love you, bot.

jeena@jemmy.jeena.net on 10 Feb 2024 08:04 next collapse

Finally the everything app can be seen on the horizon, can’t wait!

Albin8665@endlesstalk.org on 10 Feb 2024 08:36 next collapse

😅😂

jol@discuss.tchncs.de on 10 Feb 2024 09:06 collapse

I can’t wait to also pay my escorts and drugs through the x-app (formerly known as twitter). But probably closer is X replacing onlyfans, as all onlyfans artists already spam twitter all the time.

flathead@lemm.ee on 10 Feb 2024 08:14 next collapse

Hookers and blackjack coming soon.

random_character_a@lemmy.world on 10 Feb 2024 08:33 next collapse

Russian hookers with low ordit delivery anywhere in the world in 30min.

jol@discuss.tchncs.de on 10 Feb 2024 09:06 next collapse

You peaked my interest. What’s the return policy like?

flathead@lemm.ee on 10 Feb 2024 10:44 collapse

and they will come with full self-driving

puppy@lemmy.world on 10 Feb 2024 11:12 collapse

Hookers are already there. All pornstars and OF girls have migrated to Twitter from Reddit.

ZeroCool@slrpnk.net on 10 Feb 2024 08:41 next collapse

[Stefon voice] “San Francisco’s hottest club is X. This 24/7 dumpster fire’s got everything. Neo-nazis, degenerate gambling addicts, human Tesla coils. And is that Full House era Bob Saget doing stand up? No! It’s a whiny drug addled billionaire from South Africa crying about advertisers being woke.”

afk_strats@lemmy.world on 10 Feb 2024 10:56 collapse

It’s been awhile since I’ve seen a Stefon sketch. Thanks for the good memories

DrCake@lemmy.world on 10 Feb 2024 08:49 next collapse

It’s full of scam gambling bots anyway so I guess they are trying to monetise them

SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world on 10 Feb 2024 09:37 next collapse

X, the back alley of the internet

JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee on 10 Feb 2024 09:52 next collapse

So much moire on that actual camera photo of a screen.🤦

_number8_@lemmy.world on 10 Feb 2024 10:25 collapse

i love how it gets shittier every day yet is still the main place where news and noteworthy banter happens