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Twitter Rebranded as 'X'
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❌ marks the spot ... of an error.
EDIT: and the proposed logo looks an awful lot like the X11 logo.
(source; Marian Sigler)
EDIT: and the proposed logo looks an awful lot like the X11 logo.
(source; Marian Sigler)
Oh it will go much further than just this, what he has done with Tesla and where that will go will likely lead to new laws around vaporware.
Right, only 450 million+ MAU. But go on…
Does this mean Elon goes from “Chief Twit”to “That X Nobody Likes”?
This pretty much sums it up. It's hard to imagine he could make it tank any further, it's going the way of MySpace at a record pace anyway.
Yup, just like Tesla and SpaceX, how not to create and run business. He’s the clueless one.
If people are using the site and finding value in it why would they care if it is called Twitter or X?
Just like the obnoxiousness of his overbearing fan club, the people that want to see Twitter burn just because they hate Elon Musk is more than just a bit tiring. We get it, you don't like the people he lets have a voice on Twitter. That's fine. We get it, you don't like his personal braggadocios demeanor. That's fine. Twitter had flaws before he foolishly overpaid for the site and it still has flaws now that he has. The idea to re-brand to X may end up being bad in the long run, or it might not. Nobody really knows now and the almost orgasmic falling over ourselves to point to something perceived to be bad as "aha, this is for sure the end of Twitter now" has long since gotten to eye roll territory.
If you don't like or want to use Twitter, that's fine. There are now plenty of other options out there.
He has primarily alienated his main customer base for Tesla. And it's easy to blow up federal money.
More likely he will be shown as someone that rose to heights then all falling apart suddenly.
Someone said "X-creted" is the new terminology.Was: tweeted
Now: axed?
Quoting has gone nuts here.
Anyway I thought X Corp was the parent owner of Twitter at least a while ago. They could have changed things since then. Or maybe I’m now senile…
You mean like he lost 50% of his primary source of revenue for Twitter, a.k.a. ad revenue. This will most likely lose him another 50%.
Way to kill off everything recognizable about your brand.. lol.
Of course nobody gives him any credit for his help in the Ukraine…
People can leave but they usually don’t delete their account so if some service gets their attention they just log into their old account and they are back in.
But what do I know…
Musk is a visionary and only good will come out of the rebranding.
But they are not advertising as frequently. In fact, Apple cut ad spending on website formally known as Twitter, from what I hear from industrial chatter. (Despite what Elon said) Most of the ads I get are some random c#^@ and scammy stuff that doesn’t make any sense. Before Musk, I got ads from major companies, with Apple being frequent.
Lack of strong content moderation. Apple already rejected Parler for same reason once. Also, Phil Schiller has strong disdain for Musk and that might be enough for Apple to reject the app. Apple makes the rules, Apple can do whatever they want. It’s their right to exercise first amendment with app rejection.
So every reference, ever, to “Twitter” — think news articles and Wikipedia pages among many others — is now obsolete because Elon, like the fifty-something man-child he is, thinks the letter X is cool.
'X' marks the spot. Could be for treasure, confirmation of your preferred politician, or to designate something you don't like.
I'm going with the last option.
Meanwhile, does that make a poster not a 'Twit' (in my mind, an unfortunate but apropos name) , but an 'Ex' - like a bad relationship? Also apropos.
I'm going with the last option.
Meanwhile, does that make a poster not a 'Twit' (in my mind, an unfortunate but apropos name) , but an 'Ex' - like a bad relationship? Also apropos.
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I don't like the way he lies about dangerous automation that can kill even people who aren't driving the Tesla. I don't like the way he treats his employees. I don't like the way he abuses federal subsidies like carbon credits. Most of all, I don't like the way people believe what he says. The rest of this is just expected behavior from someone like that.