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Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

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Post by wraptile »

Renaud wrote: post #194

So WeChat does this: > text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, video conferencing, video games, mobile payment, sharing of photographs and videos and location sharing.[1] Twitter does public messaging and DMs, but is not a chat platform and doesn't have any of the other features of WeChat. To become a SuperApp, X will need a lot of additional features: X will need enough featu…

The obsession with WeChat's success is honestly disturbing. Even if that would work in the west nobody actually wants that, right?

Anecdotally, in Japan and SEA we have Line which tries to be an everything and fails everything but the messaging itself because individual components are simply better elsewhere. AFAIK it's losing market to Whatsapp and Telegram pretty badly these days too.

Launching a different app is not that much more difficult than going to a different window within an app. It's almost like we already have everything apps in the form of app stores and web browsers huh!

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Post by nemo44x »

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.

Maybe it was never about money and more about discourses? Anyone paying attention has noticed the vibe switch since he acquired it.

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Post by bannedbybros »

Danjoe4 wrote: post #300
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…

The product has had several new features added, is more performant, the bots have been culled, and a rebrand is common when a company is going in a new direction. Not to mention when Elon first bought the company he announced his goal was to create an "everything app" called X so I'd hardly call the move "desperate".

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Post by giantrobot »

tibbydudeza wrote: post #79

The CEO latest tweets is hilarious - never read so much word salad in my life. It makes that hippy WeWork CEO look like a genius. X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine. SoftBank - time to double do…

I love that the company is "centered" on a bunch of separate areas. It's like someone really wanted to disrespect the definition of the word "centered".

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Post by lolinder »

ak_111 wrote: post #332
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…

Not a fan and don't use the product, but giving away substantial money to highly engaged users on the platform is a very novel and interesting product idea which I doubt would have ever seen the light of day in a public company, and has the potential to be a disruptive business model. Imagine the discussion if the idea was presented in a public company with the CFO in the room "Rather than spend money trying to attra…

Isn't this just what YouTube has been doing for years?

It's just acknowledging that on Twitter there's an implicit division been content producers and consumers, and that the content producers are getting close to leaving and taking their followers with them now that there are viable competitors. Paying them to keep producing content is hardly novel.

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Post by iamsanteri »

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…

What people don‘t seem to take into account here is that Elon was forced to buy the company due to a binding offer he made but later found out user numbers to be manipulated and so on. He‘s already burned down the 40 billion market cap to less than 20 billion today and he doesn‘t have much to lose. He is meme-style trying to enjoy the blunder he made while having a tiny but an exponential chance he still may hit it big by doing something outright crazy such as his long-time aspiration of x.com (the everything company). He is finding out currently that social-human systems work very differently than engineering systems, and he is not very talented at all on the human side of things. Don‘t take him too seriously just as he doesn‘t take himself all that seriously either. And hey, there‘s always the upshot opportunity of it going big, but that is a tiny chance by know.

To me it looks like everyone who‘s trying to take him seriously by now with all this are making themselves laughing stock. And Musk couldn‘t care less.

For me the only problem is that I‘m a Tesla shareholder and I‘ve seen a sort of dilution and all his suffering first-hand, where a single share of mine has already turned into 15 since I bought it. Thus of course I have skin in the game, but I still consider this all as a big meme-like joke.

Soon we‘re all dead anyway, so let‘s not think about things too serious and money is just money for most people who have it. It‘s no bigger than life. Have fun and enjoy the ride, our 100 years on this planet are a sliver so we‘ll all be enjoying it in our own messed up ways. Elon does it this way.

This is how I see it.

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Post by madeofpalk »

ekianjo wrote: post #12
matsemann wrote: post #4

Twitter has managed to get so many words to be common. Like it's a "tweet", not "a post on facebook". It's a "retweet" or "quote tweet", not "something I shared on facebook". Why throw all this deep brand recognition away? It's like people say "google it", and google suddenly changing the name of their search.

when a word becomes too common it risks losing its trademark though

Ahh yes, like the incredibly un-common Letter X.

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Post by madeofpalk »

ekianjo wrote: post #12
matsemann wrote: post #4

Twitter has managed to get so many words to be common. Like it's a "tweet", not "a post on facebook". It's a "retweet" or "quote tweet", not "something I shared on facebook". Why throw all this deep brand recognition away? It's like people say "google it", and google suddenly changing the name of their search.

when a word becomes too common it risks losing its trademark though

Ahh yes, like the incredibly un-common letters of the alphabet.
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