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Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

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Post by varelse »

brtkdotse wrote: post #100
pavlov wrote: post #85

I don’t really see what Musk is trying to accomplish. Everything he’s done to Twitter carries the foul stench of Death by Private Equity. No product improvements, but worse reliability, more spam, and a weird desperate-looking rebrand. This is what it looks like when inept MBAs try to squeeze some more life out of a dying platform. The strange thing here is that Musk’s acquisition was supposed to be the exact opposit…

It’s not a popular opinion on this site, and I’m probably going to be savagely downvoted, but whatever talent Musk had for business was eroded at least a decade ago by him surrounding himself with ego-stroking yes men. He drank his own cool aid.

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Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

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Post by mcv »

sschueller wrote: post #8

This man is burning anything that had any value at Twitter. From an extremely valuable list of verified users to the name which is even used as a verb. There is absolutely no reason to rename Twitter. The name isn't even that stained compared to like Comcast or what ever the name was of that phone company in the 90s that sucked so bad it was renamed.

Yes, but HE has always loved the name X for a brand. He also wanted it for PayPal. He put it in SpaceX. And if he loves X, everybody else surely does too, so he's a genius for rebranding Twitter to X. I'm sure that's roughly his line of thought.

Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

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Post by ly3xqhl8g9 »

dutchCourage wrote: post #13

What does the path to success look like for "the everything app"? I can't picture it. So far it looks like they're acting like a FAANG in a "fake it til you make it" move to try to attract money. But not only do they not have the scale, Twitter is also losing its place as the reference app for live text updates.

An "everything app" is just an operating system. There is nothing to picture, we've been having them since the 1950s [1].

We could imagine some new way of operating over systems: for instance the Alan Kay original meaning of object-orientedness [2], or instead of a compiled binary to have some stable diffusion model + large language model which hallucinates the OS on the go [3].

But that's not what the quantifiably greediest person on the planet has in mind, by "everything app" they just mean "everything must be controlled by me, not by you".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_operating_systems

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjJaFG63Hlo

[3] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/opena...

Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

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Post by dustrider »

appleflaxen wrote: post #165
pavlov wrote: post #85

I don’t really see what Musk is trying to accomplish. Everything he’s done to Twitter carries the foul stench of Death by Private Equity. No product improvements, but worse reliability, more spam, and a weird desperate-looking rebrand. This is what it looks like when inept MBAs try to squeeze some more life out of a dying platform. The strange thing here is that Musk’s acquisition was supposed to be the exact opposit…

Do you mean... MyForge? The new (old) social media platform for open source?

Is that back?

Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

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Post by csomar »

easyThrowaway wrote: post #146
pavlov wrote: post #85

I don’t really see what Musk is trying to accomplish. Everything he’s done to Twitter carries the foul stench of Death by Private Equity. No product improvements, but worse reliability, more spam, and a weird desperate-looking rebrand. This is what it looks like when inept MBAs try to squeeze some more life out of a dying platform. The strange thing here is that Musk’s acquisition was supposed to be the exact opposit…

I'm still convinced he's just going for a "clever" way to declare bankruptcy in order to not pay full price for the Twitter acquisition. Make it look like a business... "accident", publicly say twitter actually never had a chance to get out of debt, Sell the assets, refinance the whole thing at a fraction of the original buyout price, threw a few millions to the creditors and get away with the whole thing.

This would have made sense if he delegated the responsibility of running it to third-parties and completely severed ties with the company. He didn't do that, which given the colossal amounts involved will get him into litigation.

And if you think he is smart, think again. He tried to "smartly" get off the deal but the other party was smarter. He is clearly not the smartest man in the room.

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Post by okeuro49 »

brtkdotse wrote: post #100
pavlov wrote: post #85

I don’t really see what Musk is trying to accomplish. Everything he’s done to Twitter carries the foul stench of Death by Private Equity. No product improvements, but worse reliability, more spam, and a weird desperate-looking rebrand. This is what it looks like when inept MBAs try to squeeze some more life out of a dying platform. The strange thing here is that Musk’s acquisition was supposed to be the exact opposit…

It’s not a popular opinion on this site, and I’m probably going to be savagely downvoted, but whatever talent Musk had for business was eroded at least a decade ago by him surrounding himself with ego-stroking yes men. He drank his own cool aid.

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Post by foobarbecue »

prox wrote: post #104
dtech wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This feels like a lot of decisions of Musk w.r.t. Twitter have been, impulsive and hastily implemented.

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Also, please don't post the same thing in two places in a HN thread, unless you have an exceptionally good reason. You can link to a previous comment. URL is in the "x minutes ago" link. Hah, x!
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