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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 Capricorn2481 »

imtringued wrote: post #868
Capricorn2481 wrote: post #590

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

Actually it is closer to Zuckerberg‘s meta rebrand. You don't save a company by slapping in a new brand and wasting billions on VR without doing market research.

Yes, that rebrand is also foolish, but it's not hard to see that Facebook is way better positioned to actually fulfill the "everything" app than others are. Facebook marketplace is huge.

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

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Post by KingShabibo »

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…

The one thing that’s kept me going as a Tesla car owner through this is to remind myself over and over, “Elon’s public persona is commodity fetishism, his far more talented employees did literally 100% of the work”

I mean what does the man even do all day while his companies are running themselves? Make bad Elden Ring builds and rampage on Twitter like he’s in the depths of a coke binge, I guess. In terms of actual responsibility for designing and building the cars themselves, he has very little to truthfully speak of.

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

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Post by Capricorn2481 »

imbnwa wrote: post #865
Capricorn2481 wrote: post #590

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

I don't think it's nonsense. Patreon, OnlyFans, etc are basically things that should've been apart of Twitter UX from the jump, all with a simple 'Subscribe ($X /month)' button, the overlap in their user interfaces is no accident. IG is already trying to do this as well already, but its niche limits its scale. I would hazard a guess that pre-Musk Twitter, for whatever reason, had fears around bringing payments onto t…

> I don't think it's nonsense. Patreon, OnlyFans, etc are basically things that should've been apart of Twitter UX from the jump, all with a simple 'Subscribe ($X /month)' button, the overlap in their user interfaces is no accident. IG is already trying to do this as well already, but its niche limits its scale.

I'm not sure what you mean by its niche. There are way more Instagram users than Twitter ones, and they are way more exposed to products. It sounds like a much better fit for Instagram than Twitter.

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Post by dlkf »

CaptainZapp wrote: post #854
Balgair wrote: post #781

Earlier 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 don't think it's OK to remotely analyze a mental illness of another person. I think that Mr. Musk is an undiluted asshole and one of the worst douchebags to ever grace our planet, which he has proven again and again. But analyzing his mental condition is sure as shit not up to me or to anybody else.

> But analyzing his mental condition is sure as shit not up to me or to anybody else.

Why not? Am I unallowed to suggest that Howard Hughes had OCD? That Kurt Gödel was paranoid?

Submitting a hypothesis about some’s mental condition is a reasonable thing to do, given that you have a substantial body of evidence in the form of behavioural reports.

I don’t find the above argument convincing, but only because it’s vague and lacks specific examples - not because it’s ”not okay.”

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

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AmericanOP wrote: post #606
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"…

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

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Post by sanderjd »

NelsonMinar wrote: post #380
martypitt wrote: post #76

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…

The rollout has been embarrassing. Well maybe not, if you work at Twitter these days you probably are past being embarrassed by technical failures. When they manage to serve a redirect instead of a free GoDaddy domain parking page, the redirect was to ".twitter.com". Complete with broken leading dot.

I honestly believe that Musk is doing this stuff himself.

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

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Post by sanderjd »

erulabs wrote: post #10

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?

This was is the most obviously and definitely stupid, sure, but the other stuff was also very stupid.

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Post by short_throw »

CaptainZapp wrote: post #854
Balgair wrote: post #781

Earlier 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 don't think it's OK to remotely analyze a mental illness of another person. I think that Mr. Musk is an undiluted asshole and one of the worst douchebags to ever grace our planet, which he has proven again and again. But analyzing his mental condition is sure as shit not up to me or to anybody else.

I'm a bit perplexed that you see trashing a man's character with certainty as right and pondering if his actions could reflect a struggle with mental illness as wrong.

I don't like Musk, nor do I trust the things he says, but I usually err on the side of granting people some humanity.

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

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Post by sanderjd »

dooraven wrote: post #17
erulabs wrote: post #10

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?

It still has a boatload of users and is still the cultural town square of the tech world. To build X from scratch you'd have to convince people like Marc Andreessen, Paul Graham, a bunch of other VCs etc to move. Changing behaviour is very hard. You'd have to get people to install new apps, get use to new workflows etc and humans are creatures of habit so this is very hard.

Their audiences will move first, then either they'll move, or they won't have audiences, and will stop posting.

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

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Post by 38 »

telesilla wrote: post #138

Do visit https://xcorp.com for a hearty laugh (or slightly frightened chuckle, on how life mirrors art). X Corp - Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) - UAP Technology X Corp is one of the largest multinational conglomerates in the world. It is headquartered in the Western Hemisphere and was founded after the consolidated mega-corporate merger between ApostleCorp, The Allied Spacecraft Corporation (ASC), and Tyrell Corporati…

https://www.xcorp.com
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