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In my opinion the healthiest approach is to not care. Life’s too short. Almost everything else is more important than some rich brain parasite’s midlife crisis dressed up as 5-d chess. The brain parasite feeds on attention whether positive or negative.
Fair. But I've already given up on news, politics, and pop culture. Billionaires playing 5D checkers was my last source of mindless entertainment!
I don’t remember who stated this but basically there is this thought that Musk was in fact mad about how on Twitter the “common man” could indeed vocally and effectively share their disagreement with his decisions. It also might have been an impulsive decision to become relevant in “new tech” at the same time (why would he care so much about this, boredom?). Ultimately he probably just wanted to get out of that impul…
I've been mostly ambivalent about the Musk-era at Twitter—mostly because I just don't care enough to have an opinion. This, though. This one makes me angry and disappointed. Twitter has had such a solid brand for so long. It's accomplished things most marketers only dream of: getting a verb like "Tweet" into the standard lexicon is like the pinnacle of branding. Even with all of the issues, "Twitter" and its "Tweets"…
I'd be really mad if I owned Twitter stock.
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Not shown: advertising revenue; debt load; rise of competing services; probability of bankrupsy over time; number of staff; market cap... It might , perhaps, almost be that a google trends graph isn't a reliable measure of business sustainability.
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So I guess we're back 90s-style business hype? "We're losing money on every click, but will make it up in volume!" Maybe the lawyers and landlords will take payment in blue checks.
It's been 30 full years of questionable debt-dependant business models.
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This feels like a lot of decisions of Musk w.r.t. Twitter have been, impulsive and hastily implemented.
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I could see this being a factor in someone doing things that appear reckless, not because the person is actually impulsive, but because they are unable to intuitively care about the reactions of other people. And so, in a situation where most people would decide against a course of action primarily because of the expected social reaction, an Asperger’s person may just do it anyway.
Also, I suspect the ableist accusations are coming from people who do not themselves have Asperger’s…
There's so much Reddit-tier Musk-hate in this thread. I don't really understand it.
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I'd be really mad if I owned Twitter stock.
Twitter owners voted for the change unanimously.
The 'vote' was for money, not for any sort of trust in Elon's leadership
I didn't follow this too closely so I really have no idea if internally the Twitter directors thought this was going to be good or if it was a 'dump it on the billionaire' thing
What I mean with my original post above is that Twitter is such a recognizable brand it must be worth multiple millions of dollars - to throw it away for the most bland and un-googleable thing "X" is... hard to understand
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There are probably hundreds of thousands (millions?) of websites out there that have the twitter bird logo at the bottom either to direct link people to share the article or maybe a link to the profile of the author or whatever. They are never going to change to the X logo.
Aren’t those little share buttons served via a CDN or third party anyway? All you need to do is swap out the image that the URL points to and any site that uses that URL suddenly starts serving the new image.
I don’t remember who stated this but basically there is this thought that Musk was in fact mad about how on Twitter the “common man” could indeed vocally and effectively share their disagreement with his decisions. It also might have been an impulsive decision to become relevant in “new tech” at the same time (why would he care so much about this, boredom?). Ultimately he probably just wanted to get out of that impul…
Elon Musk founded X.com before it bought one of its competitors and changed its name to PayPal. He bought the domain name back from PayPal in 2017 and had been sitting on it for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com It looks like this isn't a rebranding so much as making an "everything app". > On October 4, 2022, Elon Musk described his acquisition of Twitter as "an accelerant to creating X, the everything app…