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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 dmode »

kfrzcode wrote: post #700
heyjamesknight wrote: post #441

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"…

If it's deemed foolish, then either Elon is foolish and making a fool of himself, or there's a misinterpretation of the action. The success someone like Musk repeatedly attains in business cannot be achieved without a significant capacity for making wise, informed decisions, or strategic moves. If his track record is any indication, he'll probably have a successful venture, and I, for one, am fascinated to see the em…

PayPal was not founded by Elon. SolarCity was run by his brother / cousin (?) and was about to go bankrupt before being questionably acquired by Tesla. Boring is not a thing. Even Tesla wasn't founded by him. So his track record is really creating SpaceX (and jury is still out on long term success) and executing on Tesla (where technology, concept was founded by someone else).

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

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Post by cwkoss »

TheCaptain4815 wrote: post #779
browningstreet wrote: post #748

It’s so embarrassing to me being a Tesla vehicle owner now. And as someone who thought it was awesome he took a drag on Rogan: I hope the government retracts his security clearance and he has to divest his holdings in SpaceX and Tesla. Or Tesla finds a way to separate their identity from Musk. Maybe the FSD fiasco will create a path to that. I hope and believe, at this point, SpaceX and Tesla are thriving despite Elo…

Imagine descending into practically fascism because someone doesn't agree with your political candidate of choice. Where were these warnings when Twitter was full of spam bots, got hacked by a 17 year old, mass censoring, etc?

Did you reply to the wrong comment? Seems like a bunch of non sequitors

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Post by vharuck »

themagician wrote: post #555
martin-adams wrote: post #493

For what I can tell, Elon bought Twitter to take it off the stock market, fix it as a private company, creating growth and profitability, and then list it later to make his money back. He sees the X vision to make Twitter become the Everything App, where people turn to it for more than just messaging, but video calls and commerce. Very much like WeChat where it serves as a platform for things like restaurant bookings…

His vision is to turn it into a bank. He talked about this with Baron's last year. The part of the "everything app" he actually cares about is banking. His goal is to make it into the world's largest bank. He actually said so. Honestly, not a bad idea. If you are the world's richest person you might as well have a company that can actually make money.

Elon has become known for mandating large policy changes at Twitter. These change the way the service works, what different features mean, and how much sway different users have on the communities. By now, business owners should know not to rely on Twitter's features or community remaining unchanged beyond maybe a couple years. Which isn't terrible. It's a social media service, society is inherently messy, and messiness makes for good profit opportunities.

But who would want those qualities in a bank? Banks should be boring.

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Post by noufalibrahim »

padolsey wrote: post #504
rpastuszak wrote: post #464

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.

For myself at least, Twitter has been instrumental in my career, hobbies and friendships. But now, seeing it flounder, and having people shard off to mastadon, bsky, and siloed instances of [insert next federative platform], makes me so very sad. It feels like I’ve lost a key part of my social “surface area”. Things change, I know. What hurts though is that this didn’t need to happen. He ruined something that was, wi…

I never really thought of it this way. Twitter is a big part of how I stay connected to a certain valuable Circle of friends. It'd be a big loss for me if it went away or became something else.

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Post by kevin_nisbet »

ModernMech wrote: post #706
FreshStart wrote: post #671

Earlier 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.

> You have to view these billionaires as toddlers. They never hear a simple “no”, and when they do they go apoplectic.

It doesn't have to be just billionaires, one of the startups I worked in had a leadership culture like this. I ended up leaving after the new person I was reporting to took this to an extreme.

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Post by monetus »

danudey wrote: post #745
wnc3141 wrote: post #637

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its interesting given that it would probably be easier to just hire a few competent managers to steer Twitter into profitability rather than Musk actively managing Twitter into the ground.

Musk is operating Twitter in a "divine right of kings" sort of way. He's been chosen by (who? God? investors? being rich?) to run things, and therefore whatever it is he does is obviously the correct choice and it's heresy to suggest otherwise (and will get you fired). He thinks that every idea he has is a good idea, simply because he had it, and therefore his ability to think on his feet and come up with and try new…

This rebranding is so bad, it sounds like you are denigrating the average stoner idea with that comparison imo.

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Post by ks2048 »

malcolmgreaves wrote: post #454

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I would be willing to concede that at some point in the past Musk was an intelligent man - and this is another data point suggesting that massive wealth and power over some amount of time will completely rot your brain and your attachment to reality.

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Post by luxuryballs »

gota wrote: post #703
heyjamesknight wrote: post #441

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.

Didn’t they already get paid for the stock?

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Post by luxuryballs »

freedomben wrote: post #729
AmericanOP wrote: post #606

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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To identify your fallacy, replace "republican" in what you wrote with "women." I suspect you'll fairly quickly realize the problem with taking a sample size of 1 and extrapolating characteristics about a population of 10s of million of people.

Really it should be “my roommate” not “women” or “republicans”, to further your point.
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