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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"…
There's so much Reddit-tier Musk-hate in this thread. I don't really understand it.
He WANTS the attention and being controversial, it worked with him in other companies and he’s trying to apply the same for twitter, you have side that are a die-hard fans that doesn’t see a problem to implant his chip in their minds yet they refused a medical injection under the claim it had a nanochip, on the other side, you have people hate his guts for ruining their safe space discussion platform. My personal tak…
I hope that this will push government officials and structures to set up mastodon instances. Like one for the government where each agency has an account. Europe did this [0] and I find that it's a very good idea to have control over communication (plus since it's open anyone can do what they want with the data) [0] https://social.network.europa.eu/
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I see it's going viral.
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?
Apparently tweets will now be called "x's".
It's a bit similar to the X Window System. Who owns that these days?
Meanwhile, the x.com domain seems to be somewhat shambolic. As I write this, it hits a Godaddy parking page. According to this[0] tweet[1], it's been a Godaddy site, a dead link, a redirect, and now a godaddy site again. Shambles. [0] https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1683289016723202050 [1] No, I'm not calling them X's. That name is saved for those who broke my heart, made me cry, and left me binge watching No…
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If you ever ask the question "Is this a dumb move or 4D chess?" the answer is literally always "dumb move".
I heard some pal of his (owner of the big MMA league or something? IDK, some other Saudi-loving guy I gather, I don't know much about combat sports) interviewed on NPR a couple weeks ago and he was still saying Musk is a business genius (but he also had some weird "once someone's in the circle, they're in the circle , and Musk's in the circle" thing going on, like from goddamn Meet the Parents —dude was a living cari…
Musk is cramming the social media app with all of those useless buzzwords that Wall Street loves. When he IPOs it, you can bet it will have AI, Finance, and depending on its standing then, Crypto in the prospectus. It will be hot trash but the markets will lap it up as they always do.
You are literally not the audience for these shenanigans.
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"…
It’s for Wall Street so he can take this dumpster fire public again, but with a whole bunch of buzzwords.
What a bizarre brand launch... * Primary logo in top left of web changed to X * Favicon still old Twitter logo * Search bar says "Search Twitter" * Meta title still says Twitter * Tweet terminology still in use * Footer updated to © 2023 X Corp. * Dialog for upgrading to Twitter Blue now has a blue X logo but copy refers to Twitter Blue * Communities still called Twitter Communities What's the plan here and why so in…