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Twitter Finally Turns to 'X' on Apple's App Store
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For me, they can call it whatever they want, it’s been going downhill rapidly in the last year anyway.
I’ll keep using, it albeit in a slightly more limited capacity, until I become one of the last few. Like those folk who clung on to audio tapes in the 2000s almost like a badge of honour.
I’ll keep using, it albeit in a slightly more limited capacity, until I become one of the last few. Like those folk who clung on to audio tapes in the 2000s almost like a badge of honour.
Board represents shareholders, maximizing their investment, and given the ridiculously high valuation offered by Musk, would have invited lawsuits if they hadn’t sold.
It wasn’t always a cesspit but sadly it has become so more rapidly over the last year in my experience.
That shows a major downside of the Apple Store: You can only get the latest version of an App there. So you have to the one with the X.
At least for browsers there are already plugins like "Control Panel for Twitter", that allow you to pretty much get back the old Twitter including the old logo with the bird. I hardly ever use the Twitter app anyway, as even in 2023 typing on a smartphone still is a pain. That will never change.
At least for browsers there are already plugins like "Control Panel for Twitter", that allow you to pretty much get back the old Twitter including the old logo with the bird. I hardly ever use the Twitter app anyway, as even in 2023 typing on a smartphone still is a pain. That will never change.
Agreed.
If there was a platform just like the old Twitter but without the bots and fake accounts users and advertisers would flock there.
My god, it's a name change and logo change - the same people are on there and the same conversations are still being held. All this drama over nothing...
Ironically, it's still branded as "Twitter" all over the web site and the app. Sloppy - but I suppose we should expect that.
Why is everyone here so negative about Twitter/X? Someone’s business paid for for $44bil. Whether you like the man, his views, or the way he does his things doesn’t matter here. Even we want the freedom to do whatever we want with our 1000€/$ devices. No one’s life depends on whether Twitter is called X or whatever. If you don’t like it, quit it.
Funny how the people of the internet think alike and talk alike sheep. So NOW Musk is the main evil and it's obligatory to trash him in every thread.
Don't follow politics, is that because he let the tower/plaza guy back on the platform? Or the people of the internet just don't like Space X and rather have the warlord and his russ to fly astronauts to space?
Don't follow politics, is that because he let the tower/plaza guy back on the platform? Or the people of the internet just don't like Space X and rather have the warlord and his russ to fly astronauts to space?
You watch 'em, we make 'em. Enjoy!
IMO, Twitter was already a sinking ship— this was their get-out-of-jail-free card, and the board knew it. Probably the best case scenario for them.
And yes, greedy idiots.
No updates in 9 months... Maybe he forgot that there's a Mac app. How much do you wanna bet that he just removes the Mac app all together.
everyone so up in arms about.... the name and logo of an app they claim to hate...
people just like being upset about things lol
people just like being upset about things lol
Yeah pissing away 44B is a lot of money... but for someone with a net worth of 240B and growing... It's not as horrible as it seems to us common folk. He'll still have enough money to do whatever the hell he wants with and the next 10-15 generations of his offspring after him will be all set off his fortune and companies.
Gross. I didn’t jump on the hate Elon bandwagon, didn’t take the purchase of Twitter personally. Never much liked Twitter anyway.
Now I officially think he has lost it. This is just plain stupid. I thought they couldn’t get any dumber after banning mobile clients but this is a whole other level.
Now I officially think he has lost it. This is just plain stupid. I thought they couldn’t get any dumber after banning mobile clients but this is a whole other level.
Generic, just like the arguments of his fanboys who desperately try to defend him.
They don’t have the manpower. They can barely keep the servers running. And they don’t even have people to manage facilities issues like pulling permits etc.
That's true. The same worthless people having the same worthless conversations...
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I dislike the X branding, but another thing that strikes me loud and clear ... the app is designed by an adult for adults. Ironic, since Musk is basically a child.
Pretty sure the line “you’re not blazing up in here, wastoid!” is from the original Breakfast Club.
Though I wouldn’t be surprised if Musk has graduated from Adderall to cocaine or meth.
It’s like watching a midlife crisis unfold in public.
If you're referring to Meta as "Facebook", you're saying it wrong. The Quest headsets, for example, are not Facebook products. They are Meta products.
That's like referring to Apple as "Mac". I've heard people actually say that. "Did you hear Mac just released a new thingamajig?" Ugh.