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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’
#822It 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.
I'll defend him, he's done great work at SpaceX and Tesla, and I hope he can somehow accept that he's failed at Twitter/X and move back to doing great work at Tesla/SpaceX. I don't expect it to happen anytime soon, he's got too much money, but people can do great things and not necessarily have admirable character overall or only have admirable traits in certain contexts. Edit: I'm ejecting this thread, Musk discours…
Hope Musk ever takes a company public again. The anti-Musk aura means there’s decent odds of a far-below-real valuation in the public markets.
Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
#823After reading some comments here, this rebranding seems so ridiculous that looks like a joke, honestly. > X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered > in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking... How do we call videos from X? xvideos?
Unironically, I can see him purchasing XVideos for the name + meme.
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#824I 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…
> (why would he care so much about this, boredom?) > due to extreme unreflected and unchecked ego Unfortunately, I think it's worse than that. My belief is that it's manic phases caused by bipolar disorder. If you squint and chart these 'manic' decisions, it seems to be about every 4-5 months. In between he'll often (though not always) post some self-reflective and more 'down' things and be generally more quiet (reme…
In what sense is bipolar disorder worse than extreme unreflected and unchecked ego?
Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
#825Earlier quoted context omitted.
> (why would he care so much about this, boredom?) > due to extreme unreflected and unchecked ego Unfortunately, I think it's worse than that. My belief is that it's manic phases caused by bipolar disorder. If you squint and chart these 'manic' decisions, it seems to be about every 4-5 months. In between he'll often (though not always) post some self-reflective and more 'down' things and be generally more quiet (reme…
I'm not sure when in the last 9 months since he bought Twitter you found Elon reflective and "down". It's been lunacy after lunacy every single week. Does it seem like manic? Yes. But when this behavior is persistent, not sure bipolar is the diagnosis per se.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/31/elon-musk-is-bipolar-has-ter...
> Sunday, on Twitter, Musk was also asked if he was bipolar, to which Musk replied, “yeah,” but then he explained further, saying his psychological highs and lows are associated with actual ups and downs in his life.
> “Maybe not medically tho,” says his tweet. “Dunno. Bad feelings correlate to bad events, so maybe real problem is getting carried away in what I sign up for.”
https://sports.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-musk-tweeted-bip...
Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
#826So WeChat does this: > text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, video conferencing, video games, mobile payment, sharing of photographs and videos and location sharing.[1] Twitter does public messaging and DMs, but is not a chat platform and doesn't have any of the other features of WeChat. To become a SuperApp, X will need a lot of additional features: X will need enough featu…
The obsession with WeChat's success is honestly disturbing. Even if that would work in the west nobody actually wants that, right? Anecdotally, in Japan and SEA we have Line which tries to be an everything and fails everything but the messaging itself because individual components are simply better elsewhere. AFAIK it's losing market to Whatsapp and Telegram pretty badly these days too. Launching a different app is n…
I have seen a lot of complaints from those who used (or is obligated to use) LINE at work, particularly the inability to retain anything in the chat for more than 7 days (except if it is saved in the Album for that chat or Keep), meaning that it's very difficult to keep track of all previous conversations and files. They said "LINE is anything but a good Chat App", and I fully concur.
I recall that LINE's infrastructure wasn't built for multi-device use, and since the focus is needed for reliability, the underlying infrastructure wasn't touched or improved. There is a session at LINE Dev Day 2019 [1] that addressed this issue, though I still don't see much progress ever since
Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
#827This 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.
If you didn’t share their political biases and don’t like government interference, the name has a very bad reputation.
Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
#828For 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…
> 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 This is the exact vacuous nonsense Sam Bankman-Fried was spouting while playing League of Legends in a VC meeting and it made Sequoia Capital wet their pants. It really puts the cart before the horse of "how or why" Twitter should position themselves this way. It is frus…
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#829For some reason this finally gave me the motivation to delete my account. Not the outages or endorsing fascists or giving Tucker Carlson media deals or removing features behind paywalls or making reach pay-to-win or...
Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
#830they made their logo the same as the "close this app" button on every OS.