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Twitter Rebranded as 'X'

When did the letter X become so trendy? Was it the X-Files? When did this whole thing begin, and who's responsible?
 
Mainyehc said:
Or that. Hey, it's indeed a great asset, and if Tesla ever goes into liquidation, it's something that one of the other big automakers, or maybe one of those oil companies trying to greenwash themselves, would love to get their grubby little hands on. Win-win situation. ;)
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"Tesla ever goes into liquidation" sure right after Apple goes bankrupt 😊
 
Anyone confused by the X?

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vinegarshots said:
Except if he didn’t piss off customers , he would have more customers. Achieving only a portion of your total potential success is not good business.

Also, record deliveries after record price cuts is a metric that should be expected, but isn’t a good indicator of overall strength.
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Sorry but "could have more sales" is not a good argument. That argument can be applied to virtually any company in practically any situation.

Price cuts should be expected after a large period of many price increases. IIRC, prices are still above before they started covid price increases for their high volume products

Their strength is in their margins. Despite decreasing this quarter, it's still well above most, if not, all other major automakers.
 
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webkit said:
I think the deliveries number was more or less to be expected given Tesla's significant price cuts, discounts and incentives plus the fact that many of their cars in the U.S. again qualified for $7,500 federal tax credits

Tesla price reductions and discounts combined with potential federal, state and local EV tax credits had brought the price of a new Model 3 down to as little as $25,000 or less in some places. Without the major price cuts and government credits, Tesla would not have seen the kind of delivery numbers they did.
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Price cuts were already expected given that they increased prices like 10 times in the past 1-2 years. And IIRC they're still above prices before they increased it due to shortages during covid

You're severely mistaken if you thought Tesla should have kept the price increases permanently.
 
scorpio vega said:
this 'logic' always amuses me. We call people out for not having thick skin but not those perpetuating hate lol.

Anyway, back on topic, musk is crazy lol. We all knew that. I am curious to see how all this plays out lol. What benefit does anyone have to use X or whatever for payment options, for example. Even FB pay is not something commonly seen or used in day to day life.
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Who said to not call out people doing hate speech? That's what free speech is about, to encourage you to call out whoever you want. Talk about logic 😉
 
CapitalIdea said:
Does this mean Elon goes from “Chief Twit”to “That X Nobody Likes”?
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Remember this post?

CapitalIdea said:
And that dev whose widely well-regarded product you are mocking has had more success from this game than you will in ten lifetimes. Chew on that.
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That "Chief Twit" or "That X Nobody Likes" you are mocking has had more success in life that you will in ten lifetimes. Chew on that.

Glass houses and such.
 
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Well, some say the move was moved up because of the Threads startup at Meta. It has take away the steam from Threads, but some say Threads was already running out of steam.


All people are doing is talking about Twitter/X right now.
 
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v0lume4 said:
You realize Twitter has been wildly successful since Musk took over, despite what the internet echo chamber has suggested, right?

Just like the “Netflix is going to go out of business” hysteria when they cracked down on password sharing, when in reality their subscriber counts skyrocketed.
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Why would they see anything more than what the tiny world of Media tells them to see? "ELON IS EVIL."
 
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Mainyehc said:
He didn't create Tesla or SpaceX, either. About the only company he created from scratch was the OG “X”, which then became PayPal. Credit (lol) where credit's due: that was an ingenious idea, but Musk is clearly this one-trick pony that has been living on borrowed time and fooling everyone around him into thinking he was some sort of business savant, by buying up fledgling companies and managing to hire decent VPs and executives and not running them straight into the ground by giving said hires way more authority and leeway than his constant media appearances led us to believe.

He thought he could do the same with Twitter much later in the game and mostly on his own, despot-style, because… I don't know, manbaby temper tantrum, anyone? In any case, hubris got the best of him and the mask has fallen. In the meantime, we all had plenty of opportunities to learn about Gwynne Shotwell's and NASA's subsidies' crucial role in SpaceX's continued “success”, and see just how crappy his cars actually are when compared with properly made EVs from mainstream automakers (again, credit where credit's due: I distinctly recall Musk saying something a few years ago to the effect of having invested in Tesla just to get other automakers to take EVs seriously and transition entirely onto them, and that it being a successful company was just a bit of a bonus… Oddly prescient – or maybe self-fullfiling – admission of incompetence, much like his comments regarding a potential Twitter bankruptcy post-acquisition) and how many empty or otherwise failed or delayed promises he could spew.

Here we are, poor imposter syndrome-stricken ADHDers, other nondescript NDs or just plain old NTs living under a crushing capitalist system, highly competent people but constantly doubting ourselves and our abilities because our existence in the grand scheme of things may not indeed amount to much, while this naked imperial buffoon pettily burns billions of dollars (with a B) and is constantly called a “genius” by an army of cryptosimps. This circus ends now, I'm afraid; influential or not, we're not taking that bs lightly or silently anymore.
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He didn't create even that. PayPal had three founders with Peter Thiel being the one who later brought in Musk.
 
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spazzcat said:
This will kill it. Do you know how many sites will have to update their social media icons? Willing to bet a lot will delete the bird and skip the X.
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Sites? How about all the idiots that slapped the twitter logo on packages? That’s a lot if printing costs.
 
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RamGuy said:
I remember the time when so many on this forum asked for Timothy Cook to be sacked and for Elon Musk to be the one to replace him. Just goes to show how most of us have no clue how to run a company. Tim Cook might be bland and unexciting, but at least he isn't completely bonkers.
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You know you’re a grownup when you come to appreciate the virtue of “bland and unexciting”.
 
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