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Twitter Rebranded as 'X'

Man, this is one tough crowd.



I’m still waiting for Reddit to collapse cause one app developer got shut out. Anyone remember that - or our memories are too short?



If you believed anything around here, every successful big tech head should be arrested and sent to prison without trial! It sure seems that everyone is basically the devil just because they’re successful in tech and rich.



But it has to be said this was a good week for Elon Musk. Who wants to be Elon Musk given what he has to deal with? Not me, you would have to have skin like a crocodile to be successful year after year and decade after decade in the business world. Anyway, Elon had the last laugh this week….




 
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Fat_Guy said:
It sure seems that everyone is basically the devil just because they’re successful in tech and rich.
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If that’s your takeaway, you aren’t paying attention to the conversation.
Fat_Guy said:
Who wants to be Elon Musk given what he has to deal with? Not me
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If Musk doesn’t want to be Musk, he can change his behavior patterns, but my interpretation is that he enjoys being a deep pocketed troll.

So I’m not going in for the “poor Elon” pitch— he chose his path and can choose another at any time and continue living a very comfortable existence.
 
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And since the grifter does not pay rent on that office, The landlords should call the sheriffs to remove and escort them from the building and the landlord should just chain all the doors, lock it up .


enough of this child's antics.
 
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Why would he move?

The next landlord would expect office rent.

Something he is not paying right now.

He’s a squatter. The world cheapest squatter.

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Every step of the way i’m more and more convinced that now that he’s piled his debts on to twitter, he’d really love to drive it into the ground, but needs some amount of plausible deniability for the SEC that that was his intention, so it’s just a parade of incredibly self-defeating moves that are legal but terrible, which he can point to as his out of the box thinking and radical attempts at saving it. If it weren't that, I’d be convinced the man is indeed as big a blithering idiot as his previous business partners have described him.
 
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Check out the apartments across the way in this video as well:


www.instagram.com

Ken Klippenstein on Instagram: "After renaming Twitter to X, Elon Musk installed this massive light up X sign next to a residential building — possibly in violation of local law. Absurd as this all is, it's an apt commentary on how billionaires think

12K likes, 326 comments - kenklipp on July 29, 2023: "After renaming Twitter to X, Elon Musk installed this massive light up X sign next to a residential building — possibly in violation of local law. Absurd as this all is, it's an apt commentary on how billionaires think they're above the rules.".
www.instagram.com www.instagram.com


He thinks, like most Uber rich tech bro half wits, the rules do not apply to him.
 
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macsplusmacs said:
Check out the apartments across the way in this video as well:


www.instagram.com

Ken Klippenstein on Instagram: "After renaming Twitter to X, Elon Musk installed this massive light up X sign next to a residential building — possibly in violation of local law. Absurd as this all is, it's an apt commentary on how billionaires think

12K likes, 326 comments - kenklipp on July 29, 2023: "After renaming Twitter to X, Elon Musk installed this massive light up X sign next to a residential building — possibly in violation of local law. Absurd as this all is, it's an apt commentary on how billionaires think they're above the rules.".
www.instagram.com www.instagram.com


He thinks, like most Uber rich tech bro half wits, the rules do not apply to him.
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I wonder if the local sporting goods stores are out of BB guns...

They've also refused entry to city building inspectors two days in a row. He's been mocking his landlord publicly on Twitter while refusing to pay millions of dollars in rent. Musk paid a $20 filing fee to request an extension when the landlords court date came up.

Twitter lease also states that the only allowed signage is where the original Twitter sign is/was and he needs permission to change it too. Apparently he started illegally dismantling it too, but got stopped by the city for doing work above the sidewalk without a permit and proper safety measures.

The problem is that the fines for these things probably haven't been updated since the late 1800's, so they really aren't a deterrent to someone with infinite wealth and no interest in playing by the rules of civilized society.

It would be great to see him evicted on short notice. I don't think San Francisco would miss him much no matter what backhanded complements he attempts to pay.
 
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Fat_Guy said:
I’m still waiting for Reddit to collapse cause one app developer got shut out. Anyone remember that - or our memories are too short?
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I haven't forgotten.

If myspace is any indicator, Reddit won't collapse, but I am also willing to bet that with all the drama that happened with the moderator walkout, Reddit has lost their best shot at an IPO, though it's going to take at least six months for them to realise it. Let's stick around and see what happens once Reddit hits a zombie state, their funding dries up, and they begin digging through the couch cushions for spare change, and the ensuing decline in user experience that likely entails.

It's going to be a very long, very expensive, very painful Internet lesson that will be repeated every decade or two, that

1) profit margins for publicly scrapeable community platforms are razor thin and probably should remain that way,

2) the amount of work needed to moderate a community is a full time, unpaid job and moderators are entitled to fair market wage, and if Reddit can't or won't pay that out, then they never had a viable business model to begin with.

On a side note, MKBHD was recently spotted wearing Apollo Merch in his latest video. How cool is that?!? 😀
 
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Still not as confusing as people thinking the iPhone X was the "iPhone ecks" instead of the "iPhone 10".
 
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Still not as confusing as people thinking the iPhone X was the "iPhone ecks" instead of the "iPhone 10".
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There were a few unusual and potentially "confusing" things that happened in 2017 with the iPhone. First was introducing two numbered iPhone models in the same year (8 and X), second was skipping the number 9, and third was switching to roman numerals for iPhone X.

However, what seems to be happening here with Twitter/X is baffling as Musk is throwing away “Twitter” brand equity. The iPhone X was at least still marketed as an iPhone.
 
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webkit said:
There were a few unusual and potentially "confusing" things that happened in 2017 with the iPhone. First was introducing two numbered iPhone models in the same year (8 and X), second was skipping the number 9, and third was switching to roman numerals for iPhone X.

However, what seems to be happening here with Twitter/X is baffling as Musk is throwing away “Twitter” brand equity. The iPhone X was at least still marketed as an iPhone.
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Agreed. I think Musk wants to disassociate the former twitter under his watch.
 
It's amazing how much vitriol Elon Musk produces in people. It's the kind of thing that's usually reserved for politicians.
As far as I can tell he's basically a nice guy and has made one company after another hugely successful.
If he makes some surprising decisions along the way then at least he keeps it interesting.
 
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Wildkraut said:
Hey look Ma...

Elon Musk just managed to rename Twitter to X, a single character App name in the AppStore.
Such App names are not allowed and many of them got rejected by Apple.

Yeah Yeah "Apple CEO Tim Cook defended App Store business practices and said his company treats all software developers equally as he faced questioning Wednesday in front of the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee." cough cough...

Developers who tried to release an App named X prior Elon Musk should start a class action lawsuit.
The ones who's single character App got rejected by Apple should start a class action lawsuit, too.

And Tim Cook should get accused for lying under oath.
www.cultofmac.com

Tim Cook says Apple treats devs fairly in 'street fight for market share'

Apple CEO Tim Cook defended App Store business practices and said his company treats all software developers equally as he faced questioning Wednesday in
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Thank you for this mornings best daily read of internet hyperbole.

Being fair to your clients doesn’t mean the largest or more influential doesn’t get more service. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
 
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Seems an odd choice considering how Twitter is a household name and a brand that has built in strength over the past decade or more. Saying that I think a lot of people are abandoning it now and with Threads being launched with a similar theme, Twitter could be on the start of its decline anyway.
 
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Gimme, that's mine. all mine, - things heard on a playground of kids:

www.npr.org

After rebranding, X took @x from its original Twitter owner and offered him merch

Gene X Hwang owned @x on Twitter. Until Elon Musk rebranded the platform and took the handle.
www.npr.org www.npr.org

C'ya, - things heard much much more now a days, look for his ad revenue to be at a 80% drop by the end of the year:

www.threads.net

Ken Knoflook (@kenkoolfonk) on Threads

Apparrently, Twitter had a record number of account closures yesterday.
www.threads.net www.threads.net
 
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Analog Kid said:
This is irrelevant to the discussion. People make bad decisions for all kinds of reasons and there's no reason to play pop-psychologist on this one anymore than it makes sense to look for answers in his microbiome or sex life.
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Musk is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world with companies focusing on physics and engineering. But running a social media platform requires something else which simply Musk does not have. It is not about some bad decisions that everyone can make.
 
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I wonder how many teraflops of Internet storage and network data are saved by reducing the name down to one letter?:rolleyes:
Somehow they have the x.com domain redirecting to Twitter.com crazy.
 
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