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Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

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Post by runarberg »

joebiden2 wrote: post #904
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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If that is his intention then he is doing a lousy job. Instead of simply shutting down the servers and never turn them back on, he has given other platforms plenty of time to rise, while loosing users to them little by little, this means communities can coordinate, trial and error, and get the taste of which other platform to migrate to, where they can continue this supposedly dangerous behavior.

If, on the other hand, he had simply shut of the servers many (most?) of these communities would have simply vanished for good, and many of their members might have been “liberated” from social media for good.

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

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Post by sBqQu3U0wH »

sschueller wrote: post #8

This 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.

>This man is burning anything that had any value at Twitter.

Good.

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Post by philippejara »

catgary wrote: post #503
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…

At this point it seems like he’s dismantling Twitter on purpose. I can understand why the Saudis who lent him money would want it gone after the Arab spring.

They didn't lend him money, they kept the stake they had before he bought twitter, both the Qatari and the saudi. Also I'm not sure why they would want it gone after the arab spring, given how the Persians only benefited from it and Qatar was pretty much a state instigator of it in other countries.

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

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Post by rat87 »

zpeti wrote: post #759
tootie wrote: post #591

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you ever ask the question "Is this a dumb move or 4D chess?" the answer is literally always "dumb move".

Said everyone about spacex and Tesla too. That doesn’t mean this twitter thing is going to succeed, but your always “dumb move” comment is not very well founded based on musks history. The entire tone of voice of this thread is exactly what people said about Tesla 5 years ago and why so many were shorting it. Turns out - that was a bad move.

Tesla stock is still vastly overvalued. That's not to say it's worthless but I see it going below other car companies as they start converting over to EVs.

But EVs and private space flight are useful things with demand and large government subsidies. There's little demand to whatever he wants to do with Twitter

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Post by data-ottawa »

LelouBil wrote: post #109

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/

I’d love for this to happen, if I had the expertise I’d sell hosted mastodon/activitypub servers.

Make it as easy to spin up as slack or discord for an org and you’re golden.

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Post by kneel »

Applejinx wrote: post #896
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"…

The reason I keep saying 'ketamine is a hell of a drug' is, foolish doesn't adequately describe what's happening. The wealthiest huckster in the whole entire world has done so many horse tranquilizers as psychedelics that something broke and he is flipping out and wielding his power in unaccountable ways, like any billionaire, but in obvious madness. He broke. But nobody can do a thing to help, because billionaires a…

All that bc he rebranded twitter?

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Post by [deleted] »

Applejinx wrote: post #896
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"…

The reason I keep saying 'ketamine is a hell of a drug' is, foolish doesn't adequately describe what's happening. The wealthiest huckster in the whole entire world has done so many horse tranquilizers as psychedelics that something broke and he is flipping out and wielding his power in unaccountable ways, like any billionaire, but in obvious madness. He broke. But nobody can do a thing to help, because billionaires a…

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Post by Applejinx »

Method-X wrote: post #901
Applejinx wrote: post #896

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reason I keep saying 'ketamine is a hell of a drug' is, foolish doesn't adequately describe what's happening. The wealthiest huckster in the whole entire world has done so many horse tranquilizers as psychedelics that something broke and he is flipping out and wielding his power in unaccountable ways, like any billionaire, but in obvious madness. He broke. But nobody can do a thing to help, because billionaires a…

Elon is doing ketamine? I think I'm missing context.

Absolutely. He has publically endorsed doing ketamine as a method of managing depression. Elon is doing ketamine, and I think he's doing lots, from all appearances.

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Post by penjelly »

Method-X wrote: post #901
Applejinx wrote: post #896

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reason I keep saying 'ketamine is a hell of a drug' is, foolish doesn't adequately describe what's happening. The wealthiest huckster in the whole entire world has done so many horse tranquilizers as psychedelics that something broke and he is flipping out and wielding his power in unaccountable ways, like any billionaire, but in obvious madness. He broke. But nobody can do a thing to help, because billionaires a…

Elon is doing ketamine? I think I'm missing context.

yes, hes mentioned it before as a depression aid and recreationally at parties. Also previously mentioned Ambien and a little wine being "magic" and magic mushrooms supposedly. Everyone got their demons, take from it what you will.

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Post by mzs »

grishka wrote: post #419
matsemann wrote: post #4

Twitter has managed to get so many words to be common. Like it's a "tweet", not "a post on facebook". It's a "retweet" or "quote tweet", not "something I shared on facebook". Why throw all this deep brand recognition away? It's like people say "google it", and google suddenly changing the name of their search.

I feel like "to google something" has by now become a generic term that means just to search on the web, not necessarily using Google. In particular, in Russian, I've heard people say "загуглить в яндексе", literally "to google in Yandex".

Why did yandex change to dzen BTW?
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