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Elon Musk, the billionaire business magnate, and the owner of X — formerly called Twitter — is planning a competitor to employment-focused social media platform LinkedIn. 

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In a post on X, Musk while responding to a user's post on the microblogging platform that if there is 'anything worse than LinkedIn', said that he and his team at X will make sure that 'the X competitor to LinkedIn is cool'. 

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"People send me LinkedIn links sometimes, but the cringe level is so high that I just cannot bring myself to use it, so I ask for the resume or bio to be emailed. We will make sure that the X competitor to LinkedIn is cool," Musk wrote on X.

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Musk's post on X has over 190K views. 

Many responded to Musk's response over creating a competitor to LinkedIn. 

One user said: "The worst part is people just straight up making things up! I have seen a lot of people use titles on linkedin that don’t even exist and couldn’t be further from what they actually do at the company."

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Many users were in agreement with Elon Musk's description of LinkedIn as "cringeworthy". 

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Another user suggested 'Connections' as the good name for the LinkedIn competitor from X. 

"LinkedIn is so passé - I’m looking forward to the X team bringing something a lot more dynamic to this platform," wrote a third user. 

"X is the future. It’s making all of these other social media sites obsolete," wrote a fourth user.

"Never had LinkedIn - very interested in a XedIn or Xonnect," shared a fifth

A sixth user posted, "Yes please. Dearly needed! I can’t stand LinkedIn anymore. Cringe is the word."

X recently launched a beta version of 'Hiring', a feature that purportedly aims to compete with professional networking platforms such as LinkedIn. It comes with a monthly fee of $1000 (approximately ₹82,300).

Elon Musk's announcement has left many people wondering about the new potential platform in the market.

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