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Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

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

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Post by phone8675309 »

mschuster91 wrote: post #372
csomar wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He is not a good engineer or strategist. He is good at marketing though. He got lucky with Space X and the rockets launched. He got a shit-ton of funding for Tesla, the whole business doesn't make sense (competitors can do better with tighter margins) but people threw money at him, so it worked. So he thought he is a genius and can make this one work too. He realized his mistake (tried to get off the deal) but when t…

> I just hope Space X survives all this madness. Should SpaceX even threaten to go off the rails, the US government can and will seize it faster than Elon can go crying to the Supreme Court. Space access is too much of a national security risk.

I think they're more likely to bail it out than seize it

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Post by phone8675309 »

ajmurmann wrote: post #385
netbioserror wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only thing Twitter has ever had going for it is its brand. The rebranding is weird and indicative of an obsession on Musk's part, but everyone needs to stop pretending that Twitter was anything more than that brand, which could disappear at any moment. It was a financial black hole propped up by frankly stupid amounts of capital injection, made briefly profitable by the black swan of Trump hysteria. I have yet to…

Twitter missed out big time in search. There is so much high-quality content on that platform, yet it's practically undiscoverable. I've way too often spent 15 minutes+ trying to find a tweet I saw at some point. Usually I never find it again. Search is a great save for ad revenue. Leave Twitter as is otherwise, add search and cut opex. Twitter was great for what it was from a user perspective.

> There is so much high-quality content on that platform, yet it's practically undiscoverable.

That problem really must be bad because I don't think I've seen anything of major value on Twitter in my entire time using it.

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

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Post by fullshark »

jiwidi wrote: post #185

It is fun to see the fall of Musk, I don't know anyone who defends him at this point, everyone I know (myself included) have changed how we think of him since he acquired twitter. He has become an egocentric man with need for acceptance.

I'll defend him, he's done great work at SpaceX and Tesla, and I hope he can somehow accept that he's failed at Twitter/X and move back to doing great work at Tesla/SpaceX. I don't expect it to happen anytime soon, he's got too much money, but people can do great things and not necessarily have admirable character overall or only have admirable traits in certain contexts.

Edit: I'm ejecting this thread, Musk discourse is so divorced from rational conversation, the hatred (and admiration) is too overpowering for too many.

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Post by zimpenfish »

JSavageOne wrote: post #125
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…

> No product improvements Removing the tweet limit was a massive improvement (something I'd wanted for a decade). Showing view counts is also nice. I don't like the login-walls and selling blue checkmarks, but I understand that the company was financially struggling prior to Elon. In any case my impression has been that Twitter has improved more since Elon than prior to that. My Twitter usage is definitely higher tha…

> Removing the tweet limit was a massive improvement

Sure but Notes (long-form tweets) began public testing in June 2022, 4 months before he took over.

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Post by MR4D »

Interesting thread today. I see lots of haters here in the comments.

While you all very well may be right about his future failure with Twitter, I think it’s important to highlight that Musk is very different from most people in that he looks like he’s failing until he succeeds, and he’s done that with just about every company he’s run.

Twitter make look like a dumpster fire now, but based on past history, I’m betting he’s going to make a ton of money here (but it won’t happen over night).

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Post by fullshark »

pessimizer wrote: post #205
captainmuon wrote: post #24

Now that Elon no longer wants the Twitter brand, somebody please steal it, make a new "twitter" clone hosted in Kosovo so they can't take it down (cough) and we all just move there.

Do you really need a brand name to tell you what to do?

No but you need a user base for a twitter clone to be useful.

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

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Post by weego »

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…

My favourite part is firing everything but a skeleton crew and now claiming the goal is to build the wests wechat. Might need a few more employees for that.
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