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Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

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Post by BananaPuncakes »

deadbunny wrote: post #120
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…

$10 on the rebrand being so he can claim to be the founder of x.com.

God I'd forgotten about X.com. Holy hell he's still on that tragic dream.

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Post by DonHopkins »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #147

He owns Twitter/X and he can name it anything he wants. I had not been using Twitter much before he bought it, and I use Mastodon a bit, but ironically I started using Twitter/X more after he bought it. There are a few things that give me hope for the future: Twitter/X strongly supporting free speech, and the presidential campaigns of Kennedy and Cornel West. I think the corporate-democrats and the corporate-republic…

You're just glad an anti-vax conspiracy theorist has a platform.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

pessimizer wrote: post #184
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.

They can still say "tweet." I don't "goog" on google, I search on google. Also, the site isn't called "tweeter."

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Post by mcv »

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.

> Personally, I don't see what the hype is around Elon.

Well I do. Or at least I did.

He made electric cars sexy. They were decidedly unsexy before he bought Tesla.

He gave us reusable rockets. Without that, the US would now be embarrassingly dependent on Russia's Soyuz.

He also contributed something to PayPal. I don't know what, and I personally hate PayPal, but some people clearly love it.

Up to this point, he came across as a genius serial entrepreneur. I don't know if this was just luck+money, or that he really had some talent that contributed to these successes, but after this, people started lauding him as a real-life Tony Stark, and he apparently started to believe a bit too much in his own genius, and he started to do increasingly stupid things.

But there absolutely was a time when the hype seemed absolutely justified.

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Post by AlexandrB »

simbolit wrote: post #195
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.

Can you explain to those who never saw anything in him, what you originally saw in him, and what changed?

I think the early years of Tesla (around the Model S release) were peak Musk in my mind. It was nice to see someone pursuing a technology that would reduce the need for fossil fuels. He was also not yet posting constantly, so his public image mostly stemmed from the companies he was involved in.

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Post by mcphage »

csomar wrote: post #245
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.

This would have made sense if he delegated the responsibility of running it to third-parties and completely severed ties with the company. He didn't do that, which given the colossal amounts involved will get him into litigation. And if you think he is smart, think again. He tried to "smartly" get off the deal but the other party was smarter. He is clearly not the smartest man in the room.

> He tried to "smartly" get off the deal but the other party was smarter.

Well, the other party sold their company to Elon Musk to run into the ground, so smarter isn't quite the word I'd use for them, either.

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Post by kaba0 »

bko wrote: post #183
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, but worse reliability, more spam, and a weird desperate-looking rebrand. What are you talking about? There has been more change at Twitter in the last year than in the last ten. From editable comments, subscriptions, revenue sharing, blue checkmark for sale, alternative check marks for govts and org, culling of old accounts, API restrictions, forcing people to put parody in acct. I noticed…

Changes for the worse. Also, you might want to check out that crypto scam timeline.

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Post by jacquesm »

dorkwood wrote: post #166
erulabs wrote: post #10

You know, for all the talk about how twitter is going downhill and making stupid decisions, this is the only one so far that really, really, does seems stupid. Verification was bad and now it’s a joke, api rate limits have some possible argument etc - but why in the hell buy a household name just to change it? Why not build X from scratch?

Could this all be part of Musk's plan, though? As Sun Tzu said, "when you are strong, appear weak". There's no denying that Musk is highly intelligent. If a play of his seems completely bone-headed, there's a good chance it's actually the opposite.

There is a better chance it's actually completely bone-headed.
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