Linda Yaccarino is leaving X • Hacker News Board

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by amitrip » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 8:58 AM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #279

Hoasi wrote: post #50

X has been nothing short of an exercise in brand destruction. However, despite all the drama, it still stands, it still exists, and it remains relevant.

X saved free speech online. Without Musk acquiring it, we would have continued to slip into this franken-Resetera level of discourse. Thank God! X is the platform where everyone can speak as long as it doesn't break the law. That's fantastic. If you don't like a particular subject, you can just move on. That's what the internet was in the 2000s!

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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by collyw » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 8:59 AM UTC

jazzyjackson wrote: post #534

martinald wrote: post #412

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To be honest though it is still by far the best place to get "news" about (very recent) current affairs. Obviously there is an incredible amount of disinformation on it, but if you can filter that out mentally (though I don't know how possible that is), you tend to get a far more 'real time' take on things. Me and a friend were talking about this before - for big news stories I/we would instinctively put rolling news…

I loved seeing Dave Chappelle dismiss his critics by quipping "Twitter is not a real place." Changed my whole view of social media. It's only seems real if you're on the inside of it. And yea, I would question the utility of getting a 'real time feed' of what rumors people think they heard.

People post plenty of videos of things happening. Often clipped so that context is removed (for example Manchester airport thugs getting kicked by police, without the preceding part where they attacked the police before that).

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by makeitdouble » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 9:01 AM UTC

jxjnskkzxxhx wrote: post #676

makeitdouble wrote: post #501

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Most people were betting on X going under in some way or another within a year. From that POV, it's survival in itself can be seen a success for Musk. I'm genuinely surprised at the amount of people that stuck to it.

Were they? My recollection is that in the tech space a lot of people were saying "it's just an app, why do they need so many people"

The "why do they need so many people" were probably in favor of Musk ?

On the other side people were already asking why Twitter didn't do more moderation and better filtering (= more people).

And we expected that breaking rules would have serious repercussions, which was a foolish assumption as we've seen.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by _ph_ » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 9:04 AM UTC

nickthegreek wrote: post #149

ujkhsjkdhf234 wrote: post #48

Good for her. Got paid a ton of money to be the fall guy and no one ever believed anything that went wrong with the company was her fault. That's a clean getaway in my book. Hopefully she can move on to something that isn't building Nazi chat bots.

pretty sure she did alot of reputational damage to herself along the way.

Is that so? Or isn't it that being the CEO of such a large and well-known company is basically always career enhancing? In my experience, with companies hiring for high-level positions, former job titles are valued often more than actual performance.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by collyw » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 9:05 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #593

fourseventy wrote: post #577

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Nowadays Reddit is a far left echo chamber that will downvote you into oblivion for voicing an opinion as controversial as "men can't get pregnant"

You've gotten downvoted here for saying the exact same thing. Maybe you should improve your opinions?

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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by guappa » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 9:08 AM UTC

mistermann wrote: post #663

makeitdouble wrote: post #501

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Most people were betting on X going under in some way or another within a year. From that POV, it's survival in itself can be seen a success for Musk. I'm genuinely surprised at the amount of people that stuck to it.

I joined it about 6 months ago and absolutely love the ~uncensored free for all nature of it! And while the format and content varies in many ways from other sites, one thing they all have in common is millions of humans who cannot distinguish facts from personal opinions. I do not know why but I am absolutely fascinated by the phenomenon, and on Twitter/X you can discuss such things fairly seriously, at least with s…

Censoring people who disagree with you is not the same as no censorship.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by beAbU » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 9:14 AM UTC

brigandish wrote: post #737

beAbU wrote: post #677

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And I blame the media. Politicians continue to post, and the media continue to quote them from twitter. I think it's shameful that politicians and other officials are using twitter as some sort of official media/announcement platform. In my own African country twitter has become the de-facto channel for various updates and announcements by various state organs and officials. Makes it even worse when you consider the…

I've been able to access posts for a while now without logging in, I think that might have changed when they got rid of blocking.

It's usually possible to access a single post if it's directly linked, but not possible to go to the profile from there, or access other tweets or relevant discussions about the post you have open.

That's my experience anyway.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by messagebus » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 9:14 AM UTC

fzeindl wrote: post #713

mihaic wrote: post #690

Tangential, I still find it absurd people accept calling it X instead of Twitter. While I'd generally agree that most companies can change their name, encroaching on a basic letter should be off limits, like naming your company "The" or "God". Still sticking with Twitter until a reasonable name is found, which by Musk is never.

I wonder if the purpose of naming it „X“, just like naming „Facebook“ meta is to do the opposite of SEO: Make it harder to find news pertaining to the company and their scandals.

A UK politician lay down in the House of Commons in order to fill the search indices with "Jacob Rees-Mogg lying"

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/jacob-reesmogg-admi...

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by guappa » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 9:18 AM UTC

SonOfLilit wrote: post #523

sillyfluke wrote: post #436

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To be fair, as I understand it they're saying the podcasters were most likely the ones that pushed him over the edge this time around. "Small part" meaning 10-15 percent is not too bad for twitter. And I do think rightwing podcasters and tiktok got the young male votes out more than twitter did this time around. I also doubt hispanics and other minorities voted for Trump because they were obsessively on twitter. Not…

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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by smcl » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 9:21 AM UTC

cobbaut wrote: post #716

mihaic wrote: post #690

Tangential, I still find it absurd people accept calling it X instead of Twitter. While I'd generally agree that most companies can change their name, encroaching on a basic letter should be off limits, like naming your company "The" or "God". Still sticking with Twitter until a reasonable name is found, which by Musk is never.

> like naming your company "The" or "God". or naming a product "Word" or "Office" or "Windows". :)

Those can be easily identified as "Microsoft Word", "Microsoft Office" and "Microsoft Windows". However "X" is the name of the company and the product.

I guess you could refer to it as "X The Everything App" or using the incredibly corny and near-immediately-binned tagline "X: Blaze Your Glory!" but I've only ever seen those used by people making fun of the product, company, Elon or all three.