Elon is such a moron. Literally pushing people away from the struggling social network.
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I still have the HBO Max app and for some reason it is even receiving updates (probably because it still exists outside of the US but my AppleID is Region US)
Yeah, it’s also like saying :
“hey, did you see that X yesterday ?”
“I’m gonna post some X’s”
“here’s my X account”
“I liked the X so I re-X’d it”
“Twitter, Tweet, retweet” have basically become a part of the language. Changing the brand name to “X” makes no sense at all, what would you call those ?
I bet most people will still call it Twitter after all. Calling it X just sounds weird..
Did you know he literally did that? With a $1 Million, uninsured, car?
Did You Know Elon Musk Wrecked an Uninsured McLaren F1?
His last words before sending it: "Watch this."
www.thedrive.com
People (certainly not "everyone") are bitching about Elon Musk’s business moves because this article/discussion happens to be about Twitter/X. It's what happens on forums like this. When an article is about Meta, people will bitch about that company's business moves or products. When an article is about Alphabet, people will bitch about that company's business moves or products. When an article is about Microsoft, people will bitch about that company's business moves or products. And so on. Apple gets plenty of criticism on here too.
Sometimes an article doesn't even have to be about a particular company or product for people to bitch about it as you did here by bringing up Meta's "dumpster fire VR headset" in an discussion about Twitter/X.
Freespeech without censorship is important.
oh wait, twitter took off my favorite just today - Annalena Barbock (Parodie) 🥵
oh wait, twitter took off my favorite just today - Annalena Barbock (Parodie) 🥵
I won't support Elon. How do you take a platform and corrupt it so much that it becomes a shadow of itself? Hand it over to Elon Musk. Twitter wasn't the best platform, but 'X'? A breeding grown for hate speech under the guise of 'freedom', not to mention destroying a brand like Twitter and lexicon terms like TWEET and TWIT! so sad.
I just can’t believe it lol. been using Twitter since 2008 and Tweetbot very shortly after that.
Tweetbot is gone and now Twitter is “X”.
like wtf…
it’s so weird.
Tweetbot is gone and now Twitter is “X”.
like wtf…
it’s so weird.
My crazy sister deleted her Twitter account as soon as it got bought out and I no longer need to choose between reading her rants or unfollowing her and risking family drama, so on the whole I think it was a good use of 44 billion dollars.
The board’s job is to get maximum value. Elon signed a contract and overpaid
She sounds like a joy to be around at the family reunion 😊
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Fair point. Serious question: have you tried Threads? The engagement is the best by far of any social media platform and definitely by a long shot compared to the dead bird. It feels much more human. Try it if you haven’t already.
If westerners wanted WeChat they’d be using WeChat already. This is doomed to fail and it is a shame since Twitter was truly a unique place to follow news and sports as they happened.
What lol? What did the board do that was wrong? Make money from the sale? Isn't that an end goal for a company? And if you believe twitter is going to die, shouldn't you be happy that useless spyware is going to die?
And just today:
"Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets"
apnews.com
"Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets"
Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets
A nonprofit organization that researches links between social media, hate and extremism has been threatened with a lawsuit by X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
apnews.com
I understand the pain and disorientation over the clunky as heck takeover and transformation/demolition of twitter by Elon, but I dunno... I just have a niggling feeling at the back of my mind that Elon will keep driving forwards, Threads will fade as people steadily return to X/twitter, and over the next 3-5 years X will morph into a WeChat-like multi-function service that Elon clearly is passionate in creating, re-list on the stock market and be massive...just my opinion, feel free to ignore entirely!
People used to joke that billionaires are the closest thing we have to superheroes with their simple unchanging outfits that act like a suit or huge beards and monk like habits, but Elon needing his own bat signal on the roof is getting a bit too on the nose.
I know, it's really weird that companies rebrand and change over the years. Weve never seen anything like this from any other company before. just simply mind-blowing.
I have confidence Zuck will clog it up with ads, as he did with Facebook and Instagram.
Honestly, if I were Apple, I would have done the same thing. So that I did not have to listen to the petulant man baby stomp his feet in public and cry like he is the victim of "censorship".
This is another example of welfare for billionaires.
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This is another example of welfare for billionaires.
Steve Herman (@w7voa@journa.host)
The X factor: #Apple makes an exception to its long-standing policy preventing the existence of single-character app names. https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/07/31/x-gets-big-exception-from-apple-gets-one-letter-app-store-listing
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It's there.. That's all that matters. I'm not wanting this to become political, either. If there's one thing that no one seems to understand ever is that one person's experience with "thing" is usually not always the same experience that others have with "thing".