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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 tootie »

martin-adams wrote: post #493

For what I can tell, Elon bought Twitter to take it off the stock market, fix it as a private company, creating growth and profitability, and then list it later to make his money back. He sees the X vision to make Twitter become the Everything App, where people turn to it for more than just messaging, but video calls and commerce. Very much like WeChat where it serves as a platform for things like restaurant bookings…

If you ever ask the question "Is this a dumb move or 4D chess?" the answer is literally always "dumb move".

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

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Post by dnissley »

valval wrote: post #563
rpastuszak wrote: post #464

In my opinion the healthiest approach is to not care. Life’s too short. Almost everything else is more important than some rich brain parasite’s midlife crisis dressed up as 5-d chess. The brain parasite feeds on attention whether positive or negative.

> you should not care > proceeds to call someone they don’t know and will never meet names You seem to be on path to victory my friend.

My thoughts exactly -- this person so evidently does care, an enormous amount.

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Post by Capricorn2481 »

nancyhn wrote: post #537
malcolmgreaves wrote: post #454

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I realize I'm doing a quixotic thing by offering a different perspective to a hate mob, but he's clearly not motivated by appearing intelligent and is doing things with high risk to reward ratio on a long time horizon. He said repeatedly that SpaceX and Tesla had a low chance of success, but poured all his resources into them anyway. People thought he was crazy with examples of countless individual decisions over a 2…

> He's clearly not motivated by appearing intelligent

Well he could've fooled me. He might troll every once in a while, but the rest of his public discourse is standing on a soap box telling us all we're wrong.

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Post by CamperBob2 »

nancyhn wrote: post #537
malcolmgreaves wrote: post #454

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I realize I'm doing a quixotic thing by offering a different perspective to a hate mob, but he's clearly not motivated by appearing intelligent and is doing things with high risk to reward ratio on a long time horizon. He said repeatedly that SpaceX and Tesla had a low chance of success, but poured all his resources into them anyway. People thought he was crazy with examples of countless individual decisions over a 2…

They laughed at Einstein, they laughed at Galileo, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. You don't see the losing outcomes in a game where someone becomes wealthy and famous by taking unlikely risks. Those outcomes lead to ignominy, not celebrity.

Musk reminds me of the guy who came up with the idea of scamming people by dividing them recursively into two groups, each of whose members receives an opposing prediction about some future event with a binary resolution.

By the time he works down from 65536 potential marks to 4 or 8 or so, they think he's a god, a time traveler, or a time-traveling god. They'll give him their life savings without a second thought.

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Post by numpad0 »

themagician wrote: post #555
martin-adams wrote: post #493

For what I can tell, Elon bought Twitter to take it off the stock market, fix it as a private company, creating growth and profitability, and then list it later to make his money back. He sees the X vision to make Twitter become the Everything App, where people turn to it for more than just messaging, but video calls and commerce. Very much like WeChat where it serves as a platform for things like restaurant bookings…

His vision is to turn it into a bank. He talked about this with Baron's last year. The part of the "everything app" he actually cares about is banking. His goal is to make it into the world's largest bank. He actually said so. Honestly, not a bad idea. If you are the world's richest person you might as well have a company that can actually make money.

But then why they aren't interested in retaining user and trust? I don't see how financial dependency works on a platform that can't stop banning high profile users. Even right now people are reporting follower losses in 2-3 digits.

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Post by boringg »

thefz wrote: post #60
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.

It is wrong to conflate economic success with intelligence.

Yet humans have done that since the dawn of time and will continue to do it until the end of humanity.

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Post by AirMax98 »

martin-adams wrote: post #493

For what I can tell, Elon bought Twitter to take it off the stock market, fix it as a private company, creating growth and profitability, and then list it later to make his money back. He sees the X vision to make Twitter become the Everything App, where people turn to it for more than just messaging, but video calls and commerce. Very much like WeChat where it serves as a platform for things like restaurant bookings…

> For what I can tell, Elon bought Twitter to take it off the stock market, fix it as a private company, creating growth and profitability, and then list it later to make his money back.

A reminder that Elon had to be sued into buying this company.

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

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Post by penjelly »

its tiresome that non-technical folk treat musks ideas as novel, but anyone familiar knows that Snapchat, IG, wechat and others are already well along the paths of "everything apps". Sorta interested to see how twitter can compete, being so far behind capability wise.

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Post by onlypositive »

DrBazza wrote: post #426
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.

The sheer genius of throwing away the brand of one of a handful of companies that has a phrase that has entered common parlance: hoover it up, google it, and tweet it. Feels like Musk has caught some of the PriceWaterhouseCoopers 'Introducing Monday' nonsense. At least we could attribute that to the dotcom madness.

I thought it was pretty clever, we used to tweet about it, now we're just going to x it to another platform.
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