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

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Post by eric_cc » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 9:32 PM UTC

TheCondor wrote: post #708

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"…

Does it? Social media doesn't age well. Look at myspace. This will be controversial, but Google didn't get where it wanted/needed to be with Google+ and they ripped the cord out of the wall; it seemed like it was just google being google but it may have been genius. I was also critical of FB/Meta buying Insta, I figured it was all going to somehow be Facebookgram but they kept it separate. FB is now for old people an…

> It might be too late when NYTimes podcasts are openly talking about how the reporters dislike using it anymore.

Nytimes is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. They pretend to be better than something like Fox News but they’re the same thing. Their css and layout plus their history would have fools believe they are a good source of unbiased news. But they’re just as fake as the other news and cater to the left instead, which is anti-Musk for reasons.

Also with twitter and AI threatening to displace journalists I can’t imagine they’d like it much.

Not necessarily disagreeing with any predictions about what becomes of twitter/X though..

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

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Post by SN76477 » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 9:34 PM UTC

sdfzguf wrote: post #142

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.

Elob has a fixiation on the letter. As I understand it, he wants to create a 'meta' platform for everything. I think in China such platforms exist (?). It's not to far away to say, that you need a 'meta' name for a platform like that. Probably wants to leave the 'private company' image and try to create an 'institution'. I hope it fails.

I like Elon, I think he is smart. I also think he has too much power and influence. And along with that comes corruption, non sense and slew of other negative attributes.

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

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Post by swat535 » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 9:44 PM UTC

The writing has been on the walls for a while now. Musk has officially killed Twitter. It has basically turned into an anti LGBTQ and right wing circle jerk. Majority of users have already migrated elsewhere. At least we can give him credit for not hiding it anymore.

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

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Post by rumblerock » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 9:57 PM UTC

eric_cc wrote: post #941

TheCondor wrote: post #708

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Does it? Social media doesn't age well. Look at myspace. This will be controversial, but Google didn't get where it wanted/needed to be with Google+ and they ripped the cord out of the wall; it seemed like it was just google being google but it may have been genius. I was also critical of FB/Meta buying Insta, I figured it was all going to somehow be Facebookgram but they kept it separate. FB is now for old people an…

> It might be too late when NYTimes podcasts are openly talking about how the reporters dislike using it anymore. Nytimes is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. They pretend to be better than something like Fox News but they’re the same thing. Their css and layout plus their history would have fools believe they are a good source of unbiased news. But they’re just as fake as the other news and cater to the left instead, whic…

That is one hell of a false equivalence after we just saw what came out of the Dominion lawsuit / settlement.

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

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Post by abofh » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 9:59 PM UTC

maxlin wrote: post #938

AmericanOP wrote: post #606

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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

You spent an entire argument misdirecting, so if it helps, I'm certain you're human.

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

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Post by r00fus » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 10:00 PM UTC

mcv wrote: post #292

marcinzm wrote: post #236

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>opposed to censorship He's not or rather he's in favor of being able to say anything he wants and shutting up anyone who says what he doesn't like (such as his jet's location or anything he views as woke).

He's opposed to censorship by others, but in favour of censorship by him. Actually, he's also fine with government censorship as long as they're not censoring him or people he likes. Twitter obeying government censorship requests have gone way up since he took over.

It's the GOP mantra: "rules for thee, not for me" - makes complete sense since he's been "unshackled".

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

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Post by r00fus » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 10:04 PM UTC

madrox wrote: post #488

This is a case study in how to destroy a company. Elon is doing it so effectively I have to wonder if it's on purpose.

He's not just destroying it - he's burning it to the ground then salting the earth.

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

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Post by sunflowerfly » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 10:15 PM UTC

luxuryballs wrote: post #799

gota wrote: post #703

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I'd be really mad if I owned Twitter stock.

Didn’t they already get paid for the stock?

The public stockholders, yes, but there are currently private investors.

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

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Post by tjnaylor » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 10:17 PM UTC

misiti3780 wrote: post #930

AmericanOP wrote: post #606

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you're comparing him to trump now? - you people are insufferable

Amen.

The only things they really have in common are that they both happen to be billionaires who bought their own social media platform that they now use to signal boost discredited right-wing conspiracy theories through memes and insults.

Beyond that, the comparisons are totally superficial.

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

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Post by sunflowerfly » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 10:26 PM UTC

LapsangGuzzler wrote: post #149

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’m surprised that the pro sports leagues haven’t tried this given all of their complaining about abuse on Twitter and IG. NBA teams are about to start paying middle-of-the-road players $60M per year, hiring a full-time mod team to support an official mastodon instance should be a drop in the bucket for them.

This is perfect for a company like ESPN. They have enough sports writers working for them that they could instantly create the place sports talk happens.