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

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Post by Railander » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 6:35 AM UTC

Cornbilly wrote: post #587

MPSimmons wrote: post #519

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Elon is really, really good at a couple of things: - Identifying inefficiencies in an existing technical solution - Making people do what he wants The things that Elon is really good at don't necessarily translate to great success in a long-term strategic vision. In a pure engineering discipline, like automotive production or aerospace engineering, they're very useful, but neither one of those things necessarily lend…

>Identifying inefficiencies in an existing technical solution I'm not sure that's true considering why he was (or the public story of why he was) pushed out of PayPal. IIRC: He forced a port/rewrite of their platform to Windows (from Unix) that eventually led to a code freeze of the existing platform to allow the port to "catch up" to the existing platform. At the same time, they were hemorrhaging money due to fraud…

TBF having a quick response time to real-world fraud (as in, not because there is a bug in the code, but because users are lying to each other) is not an issue a developer would normally have to worry about. Seems like he simply got scapegoated on that one.

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

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Post by pfannkuchen » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 7:13 AM UTC

Railander wrote: post #980

pfannkuchen wrote: post #512

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Musk has claimed for awhile that he wanted to start a new social network, but that starting from Twitter would be faster than starting from nothing. So I don’t think he is trying to take actions that will improve Twitter, he is trying to morph it into something else entirely while maintaining at least some significant portion of the user base along the way. I do think it will probably fail, but I’m not sure that it d…

I think it is very bold of him to claim starting from zero would be slower. He has accrued so much hate that if he were to start one I can't see how it would turn out any different than truthsocial or if Biden started his own social media platform. Although I do think it's doable if he somehow kept the fact that he is at the helm a trade secret as he gradually grew the userbase until reaching a certain critical mass…

I think the hate is mostly from media turning against him, which IIRC started to happen before the Twitter debacle. What has he done that normal people would care about enough to start hating him?

I would still expect some hate from the sort of people who (rightly) complain about Google Reader being turned down. But normal people don’t care about that sort of thing.

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

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Post by Krisando » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 8:37 AM UTC

exodust wrote: post #840

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"…

> exceedingly foolish. Perhaps it's not foolish. People have been leaving Twitter in a huff, slamming the door on their way out. "Twitter" was ruined according to numerous articles and memes. Rebranding might be going with the flow rather than fighting against the grain of "old Twitter".

It's interesting to me that the ones who really have a problem with this change are those who already left Twitter. But, having removed themselves from being the target demographic and already indicated that they won't return; I'm very much in agreement with you here that these changes are now much more with the flow.

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

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Post by sparrowInHand » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 9:24 AM UTC

tremon wrote: post #771

sparrowInHand wrote: post #215

Stylized aleph ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph

Why Aleph? Wouldn't it be more like a stylized Chi? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_(letter) Which has the added bonus that it's pronounced in modern Greek as an aspirated soft S sound. I'm all for pronouncing the new Xitter as "shitter".

Xitter is clogged.. Scribbles on a bathroom stall

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

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Post by tim333 » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 9:25 AM UTC

izzdrasil wrote: post #489

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"…

Just imagining trying to search for anything related to x.com is ruining my day

I tried "x com" in google and it worked fine. The first result was actually quite interesting

>X.com was an online bank co-founded by Elon Musk, Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, and Ed Ho in 1999 in Palo Alto, California

So he's returning to his roots more than arbitrarily changing to something random

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

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Post by moffkalast » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 10:17 AM UTC

LelouBil wrote: post #960

moffkalast wrote: post #873

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> TRENDING NOW > #EU > 5 people in the past 2 days I see it's going viral.

I'm not sure what you mean, this address serves as a perfect way to see the latest short form information about EU institutions (even more so now, because of the ongoing twitter situation) regardless of the amount of posters.

I just think it's hilarious that something posted by less than 3 people a day can be considered trending.

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

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Post by turquoisevar » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 11:02 AM UTC

ethbr0 wrote: post #468

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"…

> so Elon can use a domain he's sat on since '99 seems exceedingly foolish. As far as I can tell, it's the domain of the company he co-founded (X.com), that merged with the company that became PayPal (Confinity), that led to him briefly being CEO before Thiel took over and pivoted to focus on the PayPal service. 2000 - 2017, X.com was property of PayPal. Musk then buys it back in 2017... and then here we are. Ref: ht…

That section was a rollercoaster ride.

Founded in 1999, ousted as CEO within a year, within a year after the merger with Confinity becomes CEO again. Insists on using Windows instead of Unix based systems, which causes tensions and Thiel (founder of Confinity) nopes the fuck out of there. Technical issues ensue and so, again, within a year of becoming CEO, gets kicked out only for Thiel to replace him as CEO.

All in all, sounds about like what I expected from Musk. I’m sure he’s got a boulder-sized chip on his shoulder about Thiel.

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

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Post by oliv5900 » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 11:15 AM UTC

LelouBil wrote: post #228

vultour wrote: post #219

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“Mastodon’t”. I’ve never thought about or seen it before, but that’s a great name that all the detractors could use.

Lol, I always make this mistake because in french the word for mastodon is "Mastodonte". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mastodonte

Mastodon: Extinct elephant-like mammal

> man what would be a great name for a new and fledgling platform?

> IDK, Mastodon sounds good.

Same people criticizing X for being a bad name. (it probably is, coz i dont know how they'll replace tweeting and retweets and all that, but still)

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

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Post by DonHopkins » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 1:46 PM UTC

terly wrote: post #317

DonHopkins wrote: post #252

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You're just glad an anti-vax conspiracy theorist has a platform.

You're just glad that you never get downvoted or flagged because your name protects you.

How is that even supposed to work? Go ahead and downvote and flag and try to deplatform and cancel me all you want (even though it would disprove your conspiracy theory that my name somehow protects me, and make you a hypocrite). So you actually created that brand new green account just to say that, huh? You're so ridiculously and ignorantly wrong, no wonder you don't want to associate your own name with your comment. You're so addicted to conspiracy theories, you even make them up about me. I invite everyone to downvote and flag this comment just to prove how wrong you are.

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

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Post by monetus » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 2:13 PM UTC

mbStavola wrote: post #823

vcarrico wrote: post #571

After reading some comments here, this rebranding seems so ridiculous that looks like a joke, honestly. > X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered > in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking... How do we call videos from X? xvideos?

Unironically, I can see him purchasing XVideos for the name + meme.

Didn't mindgeek offer that guy more than 100 million but he said something to the effect of sorry, I've got to go play Diablo? Pretty fascinating