I feel like I'm watching The Producers in real life.
Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
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#132I wonder how long will this last, will it be the same as Doge logo?
I think Twitter had among the best brands across social media, similar with HBO in entertainment. To use a generic letter instead of all of the goodwill that the brand and accompanying verbs had seems really ridiculous.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
That was my thinking, too. What do you think now ?
My (very personal and unsubstantiated) opinion is that his thinking was something along the lines of "You say I can't buy Twitter for 44 billion $ and then drive it into the ground?! Ha! Watch this !"
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#134Twitter 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.
"I xed it." the new verb sounds like using a dodgy porn site.
Oh surely no one would mistake watching an X video with some other service[0]
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#135I 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 speculate that musk is trying to build something like weChat for the US
WeChat is just an app platform, like Android or iOS.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they can replicate WeChat it might be a good outcome, since WeChat is essentially the everything app for most China Problem is that the CCP is basically intimately tied to it so WeChat has massive advantages there.
There isn't a chance that I'll ever use something like WeChat. I keep all of those components on separate companies because I don't ever want to be tied into something that has that kind of power over my life. Having choice is far better than integration. I've switched banks 3 times over four decades, ISP more times than that, comms channels a couple of times as well (most recently due to Musk's acquisition of Twitte…
Indeed, just hearing the stories here on HN about how people are suddenly locked out of just their gmail or other accounts without explanation or recourse is pretty good reason to not but all your eggs in one dystopian corporate basket.
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#137When they register the domain x.com do we have to be worried about a UFO Defense network that’s run by Elon?
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#138Do visit https://xcorp.com for a hearty laugh (or slightly frightened chuckle, on how life mirrors art).
X Corp - Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) - UAP Technology X Corp is one of the largest multinational conglomerates in the world. It is headquartered in the Western Hemisphere and was founded after the consolidated mega-corporate merger between ApostleCorp, The Allied Spacecraft Corporation (ASC), and Tyrell Corporation. It is currently the global leader in the retrieval and reverse-engineering of non-human intelligence technology (NHI).
Compare to our real-life version of X Corp's CEO, Linda Yaccarino:
Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.
(yesterday in what we used to call a Tweet, https://twitter.com/lindayacc/status/1683213895463215104)
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#139I 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.
Why isn't he seeing his successful companies fail then?
Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
#140I 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…
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