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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 RugnirViking »

rovr138 wrote: post #153
easyThrowaway wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still convinced he's just going for a "clever" way to declare bankruptcy in order to not pay full price for the Twitter acquisition. Make it look like a business... "accident", publicly say twitter actually never had a chance to get out of debt, Sell the assets, refinance the whole thing at a fraction of the original buyout price, threw a few millions to the creditors and get away with the whole thing.

I've thought about this too and have mentioned it to friends a couple of times. Not sure if bankruptcy, but it's a way to get tax credits if it's not successful.

i dont remember who said it but isnt there a famous adage in the accounting world that its not a smart idea to get tax credits by making actual real losses. You're supposed to find ways to make book losses without actually lighting real money on fire

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

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Post by pavlov »

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 (something I'd wanted for a decade). Showing view counts is also nice."

I used Twitter for a decade, and frustration was the primary emotion associated with the service. I had about a thousand followers but barely any engagement to anything I ever posted. There was never any positive reinforcement to an insignificant little guy like myself.

I don't really see how longer tweets or view counts do anything to help with that fundamental problem. (View counts only make it more obvious that nobody cares about my tweets, which is presumably why Twitter had previously hidden them under the engagement metrics UI.)

It's a platform dominated by big accounts. As the owner of one of the biggest accounts on Twitter, Musk doesn't experience or see the problem and can't fix it.

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

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Post by AndroTux »

HlessClaudesman wrote: post #38
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.

"I xed it." the new verb sounds like using a dodgy porn site.

"Can you give me a re-x on my x please?"

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

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Post by flagrant_taco »

gloryjulio wrote: post #52
simbolit wrote: post #11

I initially thought buying twitter was about converting massively overvalued TSLA stock into only somewhat overvalued TWTR stock. I now think I was wrong.

Another stupid play is to merge verification with membership. I thought he would add a new membership tier along blue check mark to have some extra income. Instead he actually chose the bizarre route and sabotaged the verification. Maybe he is really being paid by the Saudis to intentionally ruin Twitter to reduce the freedom of speech

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

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

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Post by lapcat »

simou wrote: post #111
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…

I speculate that musk is trying to build something like weChat for the US

> I speculate that musk is trying to build something like weChat for the US

You don't need to "speculate", because Musk has literally said this.

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

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Post by RugnirViking »

tentacleuno wrote: post #68
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.

I think Elon is a bit misguided, especially in his business ventures in the UK. For instance, it seems egregious to most people that Elon expects people to pay £100 a year for a social media site in the midst of a Cost of Living crisis. Personally, I don't see what the hype is around Elon. I think he's done good things, but in other ways he's not a very good businessman.

what buisness ventures does he have in the UK? I havent heard about that

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

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Post by seydor »

simou wrote: post #111
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…

I speculate that musk is trying to build something like weChat for the US

Too late now, with advent of CBDCs , the time for paypal has passed
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