Exactly how inept do you have to be before the shareholders can successfully sue you for blowing up a company? Musk isn't a slope-browed incompetent; why is he acting this way? I knew when he bought it his stated intentions were probably going to cost the company money long-term but it's like he's intentionally trying to burn it to the ground.
Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
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#762In all this nonsense with the so called Metaverse, the reddit shitshow and now with twitter, keep in mind: Brands are made up and even if a few platform commit suicide, the internet will continue. New things will fill the gaps left. Humans want to communicate and will find ways to do so. The fediverse is already one potential way out and more will surely pop up.
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#763I 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…
> Elon Musk founded X.com before it bought one of its competitors and changed its name to PayPal.
Elon's company merged with Confinity. Confinity was already well underway with PayPal (owned trademarks, patents, and the domain name) at the time of the merger, and notably, had a working MVP.
I say "notably" because when Elon was initially selected as CEO, he spent his tenure trying to throw away this working MVP because it was written in Java on Solaris, which he didn't know, so he wanted it rewritten in Classic ASP so he could better understand the codebase.
A few months (four, IIRC) of stubbornness about that, and the board had had enough, and removed him as the CEO.
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#764Here is the thread we should continually reëxamine: https://x.com/mattschnuck/status/1590732559029194752
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#765Earlier quoted context omitted.
It pokes a hole in the yes man bubble. Ironically society Algo bubbles it's leaders since the dawn of time and they can't stand it to rupture. Loyalty and uniform support or else the big boss gets anxiety atracks.At the same time they can not stop lurking near dissent, cause it's the last window to reality they have. Next on mamal brain bugs..
I feel like a lot of people don’t fully appreciate this point because they are well adjusted and hear no constantly. You have to view these billionaires as toddlers. They never hear a simple “no”, and when they do they go apoplectic.
I think they do it slightly differently.
One they are billionaires, hearing no is likely exceedingly rare, however to get to prestige, I'm certain they heard no many many times (or the equivalent, say "no way you can do that") so they're so used to people objecting and they succeed anyway - Tesla, SpaceX come to mind here - that no just makes them want to double down on what they're doing, combined with the fact that their inner circle at this point likely isn't saying no very often, if at all, directly to the person at hand, it makes them very resistant to real feedback
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#766The other problem with “x” as a logo is that it looks a lot like a close button.
I hope people begin realizing by this move that this guy is a complete fraud. Government funded puppet and media clickbait egotist.
The nerve of this guy to call his company "Tesla" after a genius that could vividly model his ideas. A genius that invented radio, AC power to homes, etc.
"X" sounds so stupid and he picked it because it makes people think "his" things are bigger than they actually are. My advice is to not use his products as he'll only produce further garbage.
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#767Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's hilarious. I honestly wonder if Elon decided to do this change on Friday and had people rushing all weekend to push it out the door.
“Best response goes live today.”
Musk sending the new branding to all his 14 devs on Sunday
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#768Instead of the birds singing it from the roofs you're going to get X-ed out. Not encouraging.
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#769Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doubt anyone who worked on that still is employed there. And even if, they surely weren't asked their opinion, nor informed about the decision.
definitely not: > Anyone looking for a little horror story? > > I'm one of the only two in-house designer in the whole Twitter corporate, and I wasn't told anything about this rebranding... 1: (screenshot) https://twitter.com/gtmhouse/status/1683336936222781440 2: (gone) https://kokoholt.com/ 3: (gone) https://jp.linkedin.com/in/koko-watanabe-holt 4: (privated) https://www.instagram.com/kokoholt/
Absolutely crazy, even by X Corp. standards
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#770I'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"…
It's a pure vanity thing and thus very elonistic.