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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 malfist »

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.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2023/06/27/elon-musk-...

> Musk takes ketamine in small doses to treat depression and uses higher doses of the drug at social events

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

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Post by misiti3780 »

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…

Elon rebranding twitter x makes you embarrassed to be a tesla owner?

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

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Post by misiti3780 »

throw-ru-938 wrote: post #617

Elon's acquisition of Twitter is a gift that just keeps on giving. At this point, considering the social polarization it brought, destroying Twitter for good would be an immense service to humanity, and Musk is doing exactly that, even if unwillingly.

I have had this opinion since day one: either he makes it better or burns it to the ground, either way, it's a win.

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

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Post by misiti3780 »

cornercasechase wrote: post #440
fullshark wrote: post #404

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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"further entrench car culture"

you do realize that most of the world doesnt live in cities, and therefore has has to own a car ... right?

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

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Post by eric_cc »

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…

While I do think changing twitter to X is foolish, this post is garbage.

> huckster

> has done so many horse tranquilizers as psychedelics that something broke and he is flipping out

> after too many horse tranquilizer trips. He's not there anymore. You're seeing the drugs acting in his stead.

Do you have a credible source for this besides “trust me bro”?

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

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Post by wwweston »

HlessClaudesman wrote: post #38
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 xed it." the new verb sounds like using a dodgy porn site.

Or what the annihilist embodiment-of-evil antagonists in a Madeline l'Engle novel do.

(See _A Wind in The Door_ or _A Swiftly Tilting Planet_)

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

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Post by eric_cc »

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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This is a total us vs them take. They’re empty. There’s nothing to them. Us, on the other hand..

They bad. We good.

Classic tribal caveman-level thought process.

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

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Post by maxlin »

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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You come off literally like a ChatGPT response to "make X look bad. he no leftie".

You could go ahead and replace X with Steve Jobs, Wozniak, Carmack etc and your argument would make the same amount of sense, it's so detached.

Writing this I realize there is a non-zero chance I'm arguing with a literal bot. Great

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

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Post by SN76477 »

aquova wrote: post #134
HlessClaudesman wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I xed it." the new verb sounds like using a dodgy porn site.

Oh surely no one would mistake watching an X video with some other service[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XVideos

:O
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