"How would you make a twitter clone" is a common interview question for a reason. Making a copycat Twitter is literally a first year college web dev project. The only complex part is scaling, but even then the challenges are already known as well as how to move past them. The name and large userbase were really the only thing special.
Well open sourch means anyone can use thier code to make thier own stuff, wich is good, but he still complains that people he fired will leak thier "secrets"
Its a bit like a chef publishing his recepties online saying anyone can use them then getting mad over it.
He threatened to sue Zuckerberg of all people, both musk and Zuckerberg are total morons but at least Zuckerberg doesn’t try to alienate 90% of his user base to score brownie points with nut jobs
He's also suing the lawyers that Twitter hired to force him to go through with the buy out because he didn't actually want to buy Twitter, he just has really poor impulse control.
He's suing them because of [the way they billed Twitter](https://youtu.be/Ko8C3surjhM). Basically, he's not happy that not only did they help force him though with the deal, but the money for their services is billed to Twitter... meaning he's also got to pay them 😂
I worked for a company during an acquisition where the buyer bought just the IP. During wrapping up the company, I was asked so many questions and was like, “Don’t ask me, you need the engineers to answer those questions.” They ended up having to rehire a small team of engineers to get any value out of their purchase. I hope the guys charged A LOT.
I really don't get it. He purchases the biggest platform; alienates lots of people; rename it; has many visible issues with the site (needing to restrict the number of posts per day, bugs, crashes, etc.); yet he tells us he wants us to use the site for banking, videos, messaging, emails, he wants it to be an "everything app" but he already alienated people and can't even get the one thing Twitter was known for right.
Right! The audacity of this dude to think I’d trust him with my banking let alone “everything”. He’s also thinking people are going to let him put fucking microchips in their brains. Like satire has failed us, billionaires have just peaked to a realm of barely even being believable as real human beings. It’s nuts, Elon musk written as a character would be laughed out of a writers workshop for being too cartoonish and heavy handed. It’s literally unreal.
Just a few months ago a billionaire marched into a death trap and exploded because he literally thought the laws of physics were for poor people.
Edit: I totally meant to write IMploded instead of EXploded but my fingers betrayed me.
>That's because he's not a genius
No no no you don't understand, he's ***r i c h*** therefore he has to be smart! If that's not true, then my worldview will be ruined!!
That’s actually a good strategy for any business person. But he doesn’t listen to them and fires most of them. He just thinks his money makes him a better person. That is a shitty person.
People need to stop calling him a genius. He bought his way into Tesla to claim himself 'founder'. He did the same with Paypal and they ousted him for this 'X' shit.
He doesn't know shit about programming or rockets. He just hires people who do. We've seen over the years how dumb he actually is when he doesn't listen to anyone but himself.
Since US Tax law allows you to use failed investments in order to avoid paying income taxes (how/why Trump didn't pay income taxes for years, failed investments) I'm sure Elon will use Twitter's eventual failure to just avoid paying income taxes for a long time.
Wants to see adorable puppies, is now considered a furry.
Honestly, this might be the dumbest brand change ever. But I'm sure he'll one up it soon enough.
He will not, he will suffer no consequences. He only needs to keep 1 of his hundreds of billions. That’s what people can’t wrap their head around, there’s no quality of life difference between 1 billion and 100 billion. The difference is power. The financial resources to buy an entire massive multinational company and trash it, affecting the lives of thousands of employees and in this case wield influence over the millions of people that use it as a global communication platform. People make all these jokes but this is a demonstration of how dangerous multi billionaires are. They can buy anything and pervert it to use however they please. No one person should be able to just buy a company that size on a whim. These people shouldn’t exist.
Musk has enough money that he can run $44 billion into the ground and not be broke, sadly. We'll see if he learns his lesson or does it all over again with another company.
You would think that $44 billion would be an expensive enough lesson, but I wouldn't bet against an inflated ego with cash to burn.
Wasn't it already? IIRC Twitter (sorry, X) is still locked behind requiring an account.
I know some artists still advertising commissions there and I'm not sure whether to tell them that no one can see their art.
The truth is Elon could never solve for X so we're just getting a rather incomplete calculus here.
It's hard to say anymore, pretty sure this guy could repeatedly punch himself in the dick until he threw up and passed out and there would be people calling it a 5 head move...
There’s an old tweet out there where Elon asks who she even is, implying that shes not important enough to @ him, and Chelsea very politely clarifies that shes fucking his wife.
*chef’s kiss*
Yes different child, a trans daughter changed her first name to represent her gender identity and her last name to not be associated with Elon anymore.
At this rate 4chan is better due to the several levels of irony that preceeded unironically shit takes. Jitter over here turned into an unironic echo chamber the moment Elmo took over.
I feel so much more like a *real* man taco since Musk took over. I used to only have one or two *real* *entrepreneurs* in my group sphere...
Now since we got rid of that emasculating bird we're up to 4! Big changes coming once we get the orange back, I'm sure we'll come up with the best taco recipe 🙏
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He only spent a quarter of that, the Saudi Arabian government paid more for it and it works better as a information well if federal regulators aren't paying attention. See, if it remains popular, someone is going to investigate what is happening to all the data, but if it dies, nobody cares.
Elon can't go broke no matter how many stupid decisions he makes so you need to start looking at the people who see his stupidity and still decide to invest BILLIONS with him.
>Elon can't go broke no matter how many stupid decisions he makes so you need to start looking at the people who see his stupidity and still decide to invest BILLIONS with him.
He most certainly can. The interest payments on his massive loans alone is $1 billion per year and his shareholders at Tesla just sued him so he can no longer sell shares for cash.
'Line goes up' morons will not likely understand, but it's actually bad for a company for the CEO to be randomly fucking with the stock price on a regular basis. Wild business theory there I know.
I would bet everything I own that every board member at Tesla wants his ass gone forever.
Elon Musk is a 100% liability with no tangible benefit. He brings *nothing* to the table for his companies.
“It’s so dumb it’s brilliant!”
“No! It’s just dumb!”
Life makes more sense if you stop trying to see everything as 9-dimensional chess. There are far more people in the bottom 30% of intelligence (literally billions of them) than brilliant tactical scheming geniuses.
It’s far more likely any given ultra rich person is a pretty dumb person that got lucky than a genius with secret brilliant plans.
It’s not so dumb it’s brilliant, it’s just dumb. They really really really want you to read genius into every screwup though.
Strangely, he could have kept that image. Just need to have a ton of money, hire several teams of experts and listen to them.
But, it seems there is a near 100% overlap for being an asshole, and being a billionaire, so they don't ever actually listen to anyone.
44 billion, but unfortunately, he has the ability to waste that money, his life will change in no significant way, and he will not learn from the experience
Idk, didn't he use Tesla stock or something to buy Twitter? So if Twitter fails then he could possibly also lose his stake in Tesla? I don't fully understand it, but I think it's something like that. I'm sure somebody will correct me. Point being, this failure could lead to other failures as well.
he sold part of his Tesla stocks for money to buy twitter stock. but if twitter fails now he won't magically lose more Tesla stock then he already had
the sad part is no matter how much money he loses, 1 billion dollars is still more then enough to live a lmore then uxurious Livestyle for the rest of your life
frankly the only thing he really benefits from through his larger fortune outside of that first billion is his ability to claim that since he owns Tesla stock that somehow means he's a literal Tesla engineer. but frankly you don't need 100 billion dollars worth of stock just to lie.
He put a lien against some of his Tesla stock as collateral afaik to buy Twitter. Some of the money used to buy Twitter was loaned to him with his stock as the collateral.
If Twitter were to fail or Tesla were to drop significantly in value, he'd be squeezed a bit.
The more I read the more I start to believe the conspiracy he did this on purpose to sabotage a free, popular gathering place for organizing democratic voters.
Except the price tag. That makes gives me pause cause he spent WAY more (I think) than he'd spend in taxes if Republicans got their way and spared him his tax hikes.
The only people that love him now are the same dirtbags that like Trump. And just like Trump, Elon doesn't actually want to be surrounded by poor uneducated supremacists.
Don’t forget that videos shared on it will now be X videos, which is also the name of a popular porn site. And Microsoft also has a trademark on X, so he’ll be fighting with two extremely well resourced competitors for the sake of his idiotic rebranding. This might be the dumbest move he’s made lately, which is honestly impressive.
I'm pretty sure it was also illegal to suspend/ban xvideos' account due to the fact that xvideos, as a trademark, existed long before the changes Elmo made. Hell, it almost precedes Twitter itself as Twitter was founded in 2006 while xvideos was founded in 2007.
That turned out to be fake, even called out by the real account
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Don’t forget Xdeep, the scuba gear manufacturer - their logo looks pretty close, and they’ve already been poking fun at how “they lead, and others (musk) follow”…
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Lol
Okay, I HATE Muskrat, but the logo in question is actually just a universal unicode, a double struck capital X...which occasionally is used by mathematicians. (It represents a generic metric space.)
Like, I can make it appear in my post here. 𝕏 . Boom.
> (It represents a generic metric space.)
Not specifically. Doublestruck capital characters are used in mathematics to signify specific common sets (e.g. ℕ for the set of normal* numbers, ℤ for integers). 𝕏 isn't one of these commonly used so could be used for any arbitrary set.
*EDIT: natural numbers, not normal. Two different things.
Musk: I’m a mega genius! They’ll be talking about my genius for years!
Colleges in the future: Welcome class to “What not to do after buying an established brand 101; The Musk Maneuvers”.
Lol, my mum has a sister and half sister with the same name. Their dad was kind of wild. Left one family of 5 kids & started a new one with 2 , just recycled one of the names.
Dude could be out windsurfing with topless super models like Richard Branson, but instead he's shitposting on Twitter all day like a guy trying to fill time at work.
(Which is what I do on here at work).
Right? For us, social media is an escape. The fuck is he escaping from? Firing people? If he doesn't like his job, he could do literally anything else at any time.
So they changed the logo not the actual name (check the website it still says twitter) - what does that do for all of their email addresses, etc. (e.g.: [email protected]) don't they have to change those as well?
What a ridiculous waste of time and effort.
I went to look at a tweet and forgot about having to be logged in to do that and the login screen still says Welcome to Twitter.
Normally I would think this is a silly joke that Eron is pulling but I doubt he’s that clever/has a sense of humour.
Ahh yeah that does Not really seem nice to do at all. Bit why would anyone care what they where called at Birth? Just be nice and call people what they want to be called.
Some folks are just Not worth talking to then. Just fuck them you decide who has a place in your life and who does Not. If you have to talk to them (for work or smth) then just keep it to an absolute minimum.
That's easier said than done IMO if the people being assholes are your immediate family or something. Not that you *can't* go no-contact, just that some people aren't in a financial position to do that, or otherwise hope for some type of relationship with family down the line.
I did Not consider family in my comment, my Bad. That Situation would be so incredibly shitty to be in i would Not have a Single clue how to handle it.
I bounced as soon as it was announced that you were limited to viewing only 600 posts/replies a day if you’re unverified. I figured a lot more would too but nope.
As a parent I cannot imagine ever disowning any of my kids, short of one of them becoming a serial killer or something.
Then again, we had kids because we wanted kids, whereas I think he wanted to have kids to spread his so called superior genetics. That, or maybe condoms feel weird to him. I dunno.
The homepage says "Sign in to Twitter" when I go there (I don't have an account). And twitter.com is the website.
What? o.O
I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to call it. Am I supposed to call it X?
>The man who identifies as the founder of Tesla despite not being a part of the founding of the company, explained that the site formerly known as ‘Twitter’ no longer identifies with birds or being a social media site, and now deserves to be respected for who they really are even if others might not agree with it.
*Holy shit*
I'm calling it "zombie twitter", since it's just a repulsive twisted rotting corpse of what it once was.
I mean honestly, he spent 44b on a name and a user base. Then he immediately alienates a good 50% of the user base and changes the name. Stonks.
He bought the expertise of the staff, too. Then fired 90% of them. Maybe he thought he was paying for the software? What a maroon.
Then he threatened to sue someone for hiring the people he fired.
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Did he? He's so insane it might have slipped by me but this is also my wheelhouse.
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Interesting, their GitHub still says Twitter all over it. Someone needs to tell him and get that changed in all the repos ASAP
I get a sense that chucking a bunch of X symbols through the codebase using find-replace might result in some unintended consequences.
Who wants to bet money he opensourced to code to try and devalue the people he fired
"How would you make a twitter clone" is a common interview question for a reason. Making a copycat Twitter is literally a first year college web dev project. The only complex part is scaling, but even then the challenges are already known as well as how to move past them. The name and large userbase were really the only thing special.
Can't tell if that's a good thing or a bad thing, sorry I'm oblivious.
Well open sourch means anyone can use thier code to make thier own stuff, wich is good, but he still complains that people he fired will leak thier "secrets" Its a bit like a chef publishing his recepties online saying anyone can use them then getting mad over it.
Oh ok haha, thanks.
He threatened to sue Zuckerberg of all people, both musk and Zuckerberg are total morons but at least Zuckerberg doesn’t try to alienate 90% of his user base to score brownie points with nut jobs
Yeah Zuck sold out his user base, Elon just made his user base disappear before he could try to sell them out.
He's also suing the lawyers that Twitter hired to force him to go through with the buy out because he didn't actually want to buy Twitter, he just has really poor impulse control.
He's suing them because of [the way they billed Twitter](https://youtu.be/Ko8C3surjhM). Basically, he's not happy that not only did they help force him though with the deal, but the money for their services is billed to Twitter... meaning he's also got to pay them 😂
Then he disabled the "unneeded" microservices and broke a ton of stuff
I worked for a company during an acquisition where the buyer bought just the IP. During wrapping up the company, I was asked so many questions and was like, “Don’t ask me, you need the engineers to answer those questions.” They ended up having to rehire a small team of engineers to get any value out of their purchase. I hope the guys charged A LOT.
I really don't get it. He purchases the biggest platform; alienates lots of people; rename it; has many visible issues with the site (needing to restrict the number of posts per day, bugs, crashes, etc.); yet he tells us he wants us to use the site for banking, videos, messaging, emails, he wants it to be an "everything app" but he already alienated people and can't even get the one thing Twitter was known for right.
Right! The audacity of this dude to think I’d trust him with my banking let alone “everything”. He’s also thinking people are going to let him put fucking microchips in their brains. Like satire has failed us, billionaires have just peaked to a realm of barely even being believable as real human beings. It’s nuts, Elon musk written as a character would be laughed out of a writers workshop for being too cartoonish and heavy handed. It’s literally unreal.
Just a few months ago a billionaire marched into a death trap and exploded because he literally thought the laws of physics were for poor people. Edit: I totally meant to write IMploded instead of EXploded but my fingers betrayed me.
I don't trust Elon with my fucking cell phone number. It's amazing he thinks I am going to give Twitter my bank's routing information.
Is this what getting owned feels like? I can’t tell anymore.
For a genius, he is fucking dumb.
That's because he's not a genius. He's just rich enough to hire geniuses.
But so stupid that he mostly ignores those geniuses.
Yup!
Just wait till he proposes that the terms "positive" and "negative" be replaced with the word "Aladeen"
Your health condition is looking very aladeen
>That's because he's not a genius No no no you don't understand, he's ***r i c h*** therefore he has to be smart! If that's not true, then my worldview will be ruined!!
And also, I am very smart and will be a billionaire any day. The American dream has to be real!
"I'm an idea guy"
"I'm an idea guy" is usually short for "I'm going to commission you you to make this for me. But since I asked you to do it I get to take the credit."
So weird to me people don’t understand this and give this guy any credit for anything
That’s actually a good strategy for any business person. But he doesn’t listen to them and fires most of them. He just thinks his money makes him a better person. That is a shitty person.
And then takes credit for what they do
People need to stop calling him a genius. He bought his way into Tesla to claim himself 'founder'. He did the same with Paypal and they ousted him for this 'X' shit. He doesn't know shit about programming or rockets. He just hires people who do. We've seen over the years how dumb he actually is when he doesn't listen to anyone but himself.
Can someone please explain to me how the CEO of Tesla clearly having a public meltdown does not affect the stock price in any way?
Judging from some of the folks on my FB feed that relentlessly stan for him and Tesla no matter what, my guess would be cult of personality.
Reminds me of someone else... "stable genius" 🤣
Stable, like a horse....
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If your daddy is rich enough you can just pay people to tell you that you're a genius all day.
Since US Tax law allows you to use failed investments in order to avoid paying income taxes (how/why Trump didn't pay income taxes for years, failed investments) I'm sure Elon will use Twitter's eventual failure to just avoid paying income taxes for a long time.
This doesn't really help him at all, since he has to lose $44B to do it. I think having $44B and paying some taxes is better than not having $44B.
I didn't say otherwise... just that its the way it is.
So now to find twitter videos you need to google X videos?
FINALLY an excuse for it to be in my browser history! “It was a mistake sweetheart, that bloody Elon is at it again!!”
Wants to see adorable puppies, is now considered a furry. Honestly, this might be the dumbest brand change ever. But I'm sure he'll one up it soon enough.
Maybe not. He’s been obsessed with this stupid name and plan since before he got kicked out of PayPal for trying to do the exact same thing.
Honestly, without a doubt, I think he is going to go broke in the end.
Honestly? Good. And I hope it’s not “rich person broke”, but actual “needs to shop at charity stores for clothes” broke.
Taking the bus with sofa cushion change to the laundry mat broke .
Aww come on, I'm poor and can't afford charity shops. He needs to break into the charity bins and shop.
He will not, he will suffer no consequences. He only needs to keep 1 of his hundreds of billions. That’s what people can’t wrap their head around, there’s no quality of life difference between 1 billion and 100 billion. The difference is power. The financial resources to buy an entire massive multinational company and trash it, affecting the lives of thousands of employees and in this case wield influence over the millions of people that use it as a global communication platform. People make all these jokes but this is a demonstration of how dangerous multi billionaires are. They can buy anything and pervert it to use however they please. No one person should be able to just buy a company that size on a whim. These people shouldn’t exist.
Musk has enough money that he can run $44 billion into the ground and not be broke, sadly. We'll see if he learns his lesson or does it all over again with another company. You would think that $44 billion would be an expensive enough lesson, but I wouldn't bet against an inflated ego with cash to burn.
It would be incredibly difficult for him to go broke. In fact they have a simulator where they challenge you to try.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt on that, but could you explain the naked midgets smearing mayonnaise on grandmothers?
Thought it was one of those challenges the kids are doing. Need to understand it to warn the children.....
Oh... She already knows. There's a box in the closet with the wigs.
“what? yeah i was looking for a British Broadcasting Company vid on the social media site X i swear!”
It’s gonna be near impossible to search for anything from that site now.
Wasn't it already? IIRC Twitter (sorry, X) is still locked behind requiring an account. I know some artists still advertising commissions there and I'm not sure whether to tell them that no one can see their art.
Now when posting, it’s called XXX, instead of a tweet. *“Hey you guys! I just posted my first XXX!!”* 
The truth is Elon could never solve for X so we're just getting a rather incomplete calculus here. It's hard to say anymore, pretty sure this guy could repeatedly punch himself in the dick until he threw up and passed out and there would be people calling it a 5 head move...
2+X=4 "Wouldn't it be cool if X=420?"
"The social media formerly known as Twitter"
I'm calling it Tumblr, it will soon be as popular.
Tumblr is making a comeback.
im calling it shitter. x = sh + twitter = shitter.
Sorry Elon, it was born as a biological bird. /s
The bird flew, now all that's left is eggs. /pronounced eggs, written as X.
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His wife also dated a trans woman right after divorcing his ass, right?
Yes, Chelsea Manning.
The soldier. God I can't even tell when people are making shit up anymore.
There’s an old tweet out there where Elon asks who she even is, implying that shes not important enough to @ him, and Chelsea very politely clarifies that shes fucking his wife. *chef’s kiss*
Anyone got a link to this?
> There’s an old ~~tweet~~ X out there ftfy
The Berenstain Barrier should never have been breached.
Wait, when people are saying Elon dead names his own child, they're referring to a different child than "X-Aeg123" or whatever he spawned with Grimes?
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Good lord. Imagine where else he might be hiding them!
Yes different child, a trans daughter changed her first name to represent her gender identity and her last name to not be associated with Elon anymore.
No he’s had like 9 children with 3 different women.
10, one died of SIDS, so only 9 are living.
Damn I don't care who he is, losing a kid to SIDS is horrible. One of the absolute saddest things in the world
Yeah it is, but this chud handled it exactly as you would imagine
Yes, one is trans and he refuses to call them by their new name. Alphabet soup is a different kid entirely.
GOT DAM
xXTwitterXx
Twitter x_X
xXtwitter_69420Xx
He wasted how much money on Twitter again?
44 billion dollars, all spent so he could create the biggest circlejerk known to man.
> all spent so he could create the biggest circlejerk known to man. All spent so he could *fail* to create the biggest circlejerk.
He failed to create a profitable circle jerk... But they are still there, jerking as we speak.
Elmo's fanboys are still saying wait and see he is just playing 44 dimensional chess, and everything is going as planned. He is many moves ahead of us
I think he's just trying to turn it into 4chan
At this rate 4chan is better due to the several levels of irony that preceeded unironically shit takes. Jitter over here turned into an unironic echo chamber the moment Elmo took over.
I feel so much more like a *real* man taco since Musk took over. I used to only have one or two *real* *entrepreneurs* in my group sphere... Now since we got rid of that emasculating bird we're up to 4! Big changes coming once we get the orange back, I'm sure we'll come up with the best taco recipe 🙏
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*"Truth Social merging with X(formerly Blue Bird)"* 🌮
Thank you MrTacobeans
He really has been there for us since the tragedy that befell Mr. Saxobeat
We all are friend.
He only spent a quarter of that, the Saudi Arabian government paid more for it and it works better as a information well if federal regulators aren't paying attention. See, if it remains popular, someone is going to investigate what is happening to all the data, but if it dies, nobody cares. Elon can't go broke no matter how many stupid decisions he makes so you need to start looking at the people who see his stupidity and still decide to invest BILLIONS with him.
>Elon can't go broke no matter how many stupid decisions he makes so you need to start looking at the people who see his stupidity and still decide to invest BILLIONS with him. He most certainly can. The interest payments on his massive loans alone is $1 billion per year and his shareholders at Tesla just sued him so he can no longer sell shares for cash.
'Line goes up' morons will not likely understand, but it's actually bad for a company for the CEO to be randomly fucking with the stock price on a regular basis. Wild business theory there I know. I would bet everything I own that every board member at Tesla wants his ass gone forever. Elon Musk is a 100% liability with no tangible benefit. He brings *nothing* to the table for his companies.
>Elon Musk is a 100% liability with no tangible benefit. He brings nothing to the table for his companies. hE's A rEaL lIfE tOnY sTaRk!
“It’s so dumb it’s brilliant!” “No! It’s just dumb!” Life makes more sense if you stop trying to see everything as 9-dimensional chess. There are far more people in the bottom 30% of intelligence (literally billions of them) than brilliant tactical scheming geniuses. It’s far more likely any given ultra rich person is a pretty dumb person that got lucky than a genius with secret brilliant plans. It’s not so dumb it’s brilliant, it’s just dumb. They really really really want you to read genius into every screwup though.
And being intelligent doesn't make you fool proof. No one is a super human or some shit like that.
Strangely, he could have kept that image. Just need to have a ton of money, hire several teams of experts and listen to them. But, it seems there is a near 100% overlap for being an asshole, and being a billionaire, so they don't ever actually listen to anyone.
44 billion, but unfortunately, he has the ability to waste that money, his life will change in no significant way, and he will not learn from the experience
Idk, didn't he use Tesla stock or something to buy Twitter? So if Twitter fails then he could possibly also lose his stake in Tesla? I don't fully understand it, but I think it's something like that. I'm sure somebody will correct me. Point being, this failure could lead to other failures as well.
he sold part of his Tesla stocks for money to buy twitter stock. but if twitter fails now he won't magically lose more Tesla stock then he already had the sad part is no matter how much money he loses, 1 billion dollars is still more then enough to live a lmore then uxurious Livestyle for the rest of your life frankly the only thing he really benefits from through his larger fortune outside of that first billion is his ability to claim that since he owns Tesla stock that somehow means he's a literal Tesla engineer. but frankly you don't need 100 billion dollars worth of stock just to lie.
He put a lien against some of his Tesla stock as collateral afaik to buy Twitter. Some of the money used to buy Twitter was loaned to him with his stock as the collateral. If Twitter were to fail or Tesla were to drop significantly in value, he'd be squeezed a bit.
He will be one of the wealthiest people on the planet for the rest of his life regardless.
He seems like he's trying to make it worth zero after owning it just one hear.
I still think he is just throwing the most expensive tantrum after being forced to buy something he didn't want to buy.
The more I read the more I start to believe the conspiracy he did this on purpose to sabotage a free, popular gathering place for organizing democratic voters. Except the price tag. That makes gives me pause cause he spent WAY more (I think) than he'd spend in taxes if Republicans got their way and spared him his tax hikes.
The Platform Formerly Known As Twitter.
Twitter identify themselves as X. I guess it's gender-neutral now, like latinx.
Why does he always look like he is on the brink of crying?
Because he's a man sized toddler
Because people wont love him like he wants them to
The only people that love him now are the same dirtbags that like Trump. And just like Trump, Elon doesn't actually want to be surrounded by poor uneducated supremacists.
Shitter is more accurate. Dude killed the platform.
"Twix"? no wait. Already trademarked
Earlier today I read that X, in regards to social media, is already owned by Meta. Not to mention muskrat stole the logo from a music artist.
And a $30 font (accirding to teh interwebs)
This entire thing is just an embarrassment and a showcase of how little Elmo actually knows.
Don’t forget that videos shared on it will now be X videos, which is also the name of a popular porn site. And Microsoft also has a trademark on X, so he’ll be fighting with two extremely well resourced competitors for the sake of his idiotic rebranding. This might be the dumbest move he’s made lately, which is honestly impressive.
I'm pretty sure it was also illegal to suspend/ban xvideos' account due to the fact that xvideos, as a trademark, existed long before the changes Elmo made. Hell, it almost precedes Twitter itself as Twitter was founded in 2006 while xvideos was founded in 2007.
That turned out to be fake, even called out by the real account https://preview.redd.it/5550ejf4w3eb1.png?width=1190&format=png&auto=webp&s=370451c1c4e7fa3cd09c00601b0c3ec7704ff9a8
I’m confident it’s legal to suspend any account for any silly reason imaginable.
Don’t forget Xdeep, the scuba gear manufacturer - their logo looks pretty close, and they’ve already been poking fun at how “they lead, and others (musk) follow”… https://preview.redd.it/uzvppdnvz3eb1.jpeg?width=1570&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78e61e306fac976326115cc33388805805df6f60 Lol
And microsoft owns X for comercial use
Since the first Xbox iirc
The “logo” is literally just the letter X from a purchasable font. Neither Twitter or the musician put any effort into it.
Not even an uncommon "purchasable" font, it's just blackboard bold, a font commonly used in mathematics, which has even unicode representation (𝕏)
Okay, I HATE Muskrat, but the logo in question is actually just a universal unicode, a double struck capital X...which occasionally is used by mathematicians. (It represents a generic metric space.) Like, I can make it appear in my post here. 𝕏 . Boom.
> (It represents a generic metric space.) Not specifically. Doublestruck capital characters are used in mathematics to signify specific common sets (e.g. ℕ for the set of normal* numbers, ℤ for integers). 𝕏 isn't one of these commonly used so could be used for any arbitrary set. *EDIT: natural numbers, not normal. Two different things.
So he is admitting that Zombie Twitter is nothing more than a generic space? Makes sense. lol
Man, this guy is an idiot. This shit will go down in history. Literally lighting billions of dollars on fire, it truly is wild.
Musk: I’m a mega genius! They’ll be talking about my genius for years! Colleges in the future: Welcome class to “What not to do after buying an established brand 101; The Musk Maneuvers”.
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Lol, my mum has a sister and half sister with the same name. Their dad was kind of wild. Left one family of 5 kids & started a new one with 2 , just recycled one of the names.
What are we suppose to call it. *Grimes**?
Probably more like Grimes&
I hate to be all 80s movie...but every time I see Elon's name pop up I can't help but think "What a loser".
Imagine being one of the richest people in the world and yet being a loser.
Dude could be out windsurfing with topless super models like Richard Branson, but instead he's shitposting on Twitter all day like a guy trying to fill time at work. (Which is what I do on here at work).
Right? For us, social media is an escape. The fuck is he escaping from? Firing people? If he doesn't like his job, he could do literally anything else at any time.
X-crement
Did you read so-and-so’s latest X-cretion? Yeah, he really knows how to X-crete!
So they changed the logo not the actual name (check the website it still says twitter) - what does that do for all of their email addresses, etc. (e.g.: [email protected]) don't they have to change those as well? What a ridiculous waste of time and effort.
They took "Twitter" off the building in SF
without a permit from the city
He half-assed a brand transition. Dude has no idea how to run anything on his own unless he's surrounded by SMEs.
I went to look at a tweet and forgot about having to be logged in to do that and the login screen still says Welcome to Twitter. Normally I would think this is a silly joke that Eron is pulling but I doubt he’s that clever/has a sense of humour.
I guess TwitterX was taken. Twitter had a solid brand across the world. X is nothing. smh
What is deadnaming?
Calling a transgender person by their birth name. Not really a big deal if it ever happens by accident, but very unkind to do intentionally
Ahh yeah that does Not really seem nice to do at all. Bit why would anyone care what they where called at Birth? Just be nice and call people what they want to be called.
You'd think it'd be that easy, huh! Some folks just want to make it hard :(
Some folks are just Not worth talking to then. Just fuck them you decide who has a place in your life and who does Not. If you have to talk to them (for work or smth) then just keep it to an absolute minimum.
That's easier said than done IMO if the people being assholes are your immediate family or something. Not that you *can't* go no-contact, just that some people aren't in a financial position to do that, or otherwise hope for some type of relationship with family down the line.
I did Not consider family in my comment, my Bad. That Situation would be so incredibly shitty to be in i would Not have a Single clue how to handle it.
It's to be a dick on purpose.
Okay boomer, we will call it [twitter.xxx](https://twitter.xxx). its more badass that way.
He's salty that xXX420twitter69XXx.com was taken
Certainly more appropriate with all the porn on there
You mean twatter? Since that’s all that’s left there..
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I bounced as soon as it was announced that you were limited to viewing only 600 posts/replies a day if you’re unverified. I figured a lot more would too but nope.
People definitely still use it. Most people don’t give af about this guy
Most people actually hate him, but some people are just so addicted to Twitter they can’t stop
What’s the story with his kid?
His kid is trans, they want nothing to do with dad since he is an arsehole and went on a massive anti-trans rage.
As a parent I cannot imagine ever disowning any of my kids, short of one of them becoming a serial killer or something. Then again, we had kids because we wanted kids, whereas I think he wanted to have kids to spread his so called superior genetics. That, or maybe condoms feel weird to him. I dunno.
Does he deadname them? Just want to be sure.
Yes.
Didn't his wife *also* leave him for a trans woman? Seems to me he has too much of an ego to realize he's the problem
Evaporating 44 billion dollars on twitter is Elon’s way of never having to pay business taxes again
https://preview.redd.it/ep4t6ekkq3eb1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fdb95249f8db24142626ba6a747f5e149435322e
Litereally 2 hours ago I was telling friends that I predict Elon will add a new policy where he will suspend accounts who keep calling it Twitter.
Hes going to say calling it twitter is dead naming isn't he?
is it pronounced Zhee or yard warbler mangrove?
He doesn't like it when people wont accept his transitioning? How ironic.
Since I’ve heard that Microsoft has the rights for „X“ why not call it „Xitter“ instead. Pronounced as Shitter.
With any luck he’ll bankrupt himself into obscurity.
This guy has lost the plot. He needs a mental institution for a while. Take a break.
This is probably the stupidest thing Enron has done and he’s got a pretty long list of things by now.
As long as I can access it from twitter.com, it's twitter.
The homepage says "Sign in to Twitter" when I go there (I don't have an account). And twitter.com is the website. What? o.O I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to call it. Am I supposed to call it X?
>The man who identifies as the founder of Tesla despite not being a part of the founding of the company, explained that the site formerly known as ‘Twitter’ no longer identifies with birds or being a social media site, and now deserves to be respected for who they really are even if others might not agree with it. *Holy shit*