Imagine spending 40 billion dollars on one of the most recognizable brands in history, so deeply embedded in the public consciousness that any other company would throw virgins into a volcano for a chance at that level of recognition, just to replace all of that branding with your own little name that everyone has been telling you sounds stupid for the last 25 years
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It's so much so that every news article that quotes it still says "X, formerly Twitter".
That's because X means absolutely nothing. It's a letter commonly used to fill in blanks. It's an awful name for any company/brand.
I've seen and prefer "Twitter, now X".
Twitter (now “X”)
Welcome to the mind of a narcissist.
i think that gives him too much credit. he's just fucking dumb and bad at everything. he failed upwards so long because he wasn't too visible in the public eye. now he's terminally online and constantly embarrassing himself and his companies.
Yes, because that's what happens when a narcissist has way too much money. A person capable of self-reflection would realize that it's much easier and safer to trust people around you that know more about their respective areas of expertise. That's what good leaders do, they delegate. Musk is incapable of that. The companies he owns are not yet bankrupt despite, not because, of him.
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Yes, I mean how many companies get their brand turned into a verb?
It’s like someone buying Kleenex and going “Nope, it’s called K now.”
Elon: "Need some Ks, mate"
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I’m personally a fan of his new site for twitter media: xvideos.
And the one dedicated to cute animal photos, xhamster.
And the one formerly known as twitterntwittertwitter. It's a bit of a stretch so tell me if you got it.
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You guys are joking but Elon is going to ruin porn sites next. Let's see who has the last laugh then.
The only way he could ruin porn sites was if the site's content were replaced with only videos of Elon gyrating his hips to Eye of the Tiger, while wearing one of those Borat bathing suits, never breaking eye contact with the camera.
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...and breaks it on privacy-preserving browsers
win-win I guess
We'll definitely start calling it X now, definitely.
We should!
Stop humouring the assholes that are still on that bigoted network.
Every time someone calls it twitter, don’t give them the satisfaction of disassociating themselves from Musky’s X.
Oh so you’re an X’er. You like to Xeet a lot eh?
It's called xitter, and it's full of xit(s).
This is pretty funny actually, I'll start doing this 😅
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Still gonna squat on to the domain though.
I see that as a good thing. Prevents it rising from the grave.
Honestly, I’d actually love to see some rando grab the domain and rebuild the site as it was before Musk, or turn it into a Mastodon instance. Not because I enjoyed pre-musk Twitter, but purely because it would piss Musk off to have to compete.
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Also it would me a massive global security issue if allowed to fall on malicious hands. I mean, other than the CEO's.
What’s funny is that it’s also probably an internal security risk as well. I mean who knows, there’s probably at least one of their internal servers that still accepts credentials or keys from the dead domain. Not to mention their emails probably aren’t transferred.
All of that could be fixed but you’d have to, ya know, not fire your programmers.
Please think of the poor malware developers.
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The thing that makes me most sad is that the old Twitter is genuinely why I have the career and connections I do today. Now I can’t even stand opening the site.
I feel incredibly bad for small creators that still rely on it for an audience and can't simply afford to market themselves without it.
Google X videos for more info
Ah yes, the everything-falling-apart-app
I heard that he also moved the CDN for user-uploaded videos to xvideos.com
I'll give him credit on this: It's not dead yet. I'm genuinely surprised about that.
Not for lack of trying from his part.
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I don't care, that sycophant can fuck himself.
Still Twitter to me.
When the business fails and is eventually sold again, it will be changed back to Twitter.
Then again perhaps he won't ever sell it unless he goes completely broke. Just prolonging the damage he does to society as long as he possibly can.
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THIS IS AN X-PARROT!
Now how's Robotnik supposed to tell us if Shadow pissed on his wife without twitter.com
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Elmo thinks the "X" makes it "extra cool."
Man I never wanted a cyberdisk to show up more than I do right now
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