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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 rvnx »

csomar wrote: post #238
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…

He is not a good engineer or strategist. He is good at marketing though. He got lucky with Space X and the rockets launched. He got a shit-ton of funding for Tesla, the whole business doesn't make sense (competitors can do better with tighter margins) but people threw money at him, so it worked. So he thought he is a genius and can make this one work too. He realized his mistake (tried to get off the deal) but when t…

The current vision for SpaceX is great, the product as well.

Let's not forget that the initial plan of SpaceX was to meet and get drunk with Russian leaders to buy missiles from them and resell them to US market.

Imagine the nightmare if it actually had worked as planned.

Regarding implementation in SpaceX, the success is mostly due to very good engineers and to a less bureaucratic process, where you can move fast and break things.

The NASA is a big boat that cannot steer due to political issues. It works ok but it is extremely slow and expensive.

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

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Post by thenthenthen »

tgv wrote: post #96

It's not pining, it's passed on! This bird is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late bird! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies! It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an x-bird!

Like a bird in a coal mine?

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Post by rchaud »

madeofpalk wrote: post #152
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…

As they said on The Verge podcast - it's like he's addicted to cigarettes and he bought the cigarette factory.

bought the factory, and then slashed the already minimal product quality assurance the factory was operating under. The top replies to tweets these days are all paid blue check hustle vultures.

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Post by Zealotux »

okasaki wrote: post #123

Seems there's a bug: https://i.imgur.com/aL0ap8h.png I'm clicking the X but the modal won't go away

This looks so amateurish; they're running around the code, changing all references to 𝕩 but with no real brand thinking behind it. For example https://i.imgur.com/CxF6iri.png how does "𝕩" related to "Twitter" here? Am I still visiting Twitter? Is Twitter a product of 𝕩?

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Post by netbioserror »

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…

The only thing Twitter has ever had going for it is its brand. The rebranding is weird and indicative of an obsession on Musk's part, but everyone needs to stop pretending that Twitter was anything more than that brand, which could disappear at any moment. It was a financial black hole propped up by frankly stupid amounts of capital injection, made briefly profitable by the black swan of Trump hysteria. I have yet to hear a plan for Twitter less stupid than the one currently being executed by Musk.

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Post by jeltz »

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.

How often is thidsever true? This kind of 4D chess move is from my experience very rare in real life and mostly exist in the realm of fiction.

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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

coming soon: "Go back to Twitter" for $20/month on X.com

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Post by kaba0 »

Phil_Latio wrote: post #237
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…

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A well-engineered product won’t suddenly catastrophically explode the day it is handed over. But firing that many engineers is definitely a death sentence sooner or later, as we can see from the many hiccups.

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Post by aquova »

okasaki wrote: post #123

Seems there's a bug: https://i.imgur.com/aL0ap8h.png I'm clicking the X but the modal won't go away

I don't think that's a bug, Twitter has been really limiting what non-users are able to see anymore. I think the bug is that the X shouldn't be there at all (there's a joke here somewhere as well)
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