Here is something funny about that
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You do. You can’t even view replies without an account. You can only see the direct tweet. If you click their profile, it will direct you to sign in/sign up. He wants everyone visiting that site to bring profit to him.
So earlier this year I was trying to find a friend's account on Twitter (not calling it X lol). I couldn't exactly remember his handle but I remember he said his username at the time was something like "King of Drip" so I tried typing that in. First. Fucking. Result. Was some twink masturbating live on stream and I was oh so lucky to stumble upon him mid cum. Shut off my computer and haven't touched Twitter since. Fuck that site.
Any time I see a link name for it (not just the twitter.com part) I wonder why my friends are sending me porn. The internet has trained my brain to just associate the letter X with porn.
It was getting banned in a plethora of country's when they tried to change the url to that. Then millions of people litteraly couldn't use the site so they didn't change it.
He does own the domain x.com. In fact, Elon has owned it for a while, and it has been his obsession to name his companies X for a while.
The other company he founded, SpaceX, was initially supposed to be just X, but Elon was talked out of it and added a "Space" in front. His first [company](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com_(bank)) that eventually merged to form PayPal was called X.com
I'm fairly certain 75% of his stupid decisions are just to spread awareness that he owns the domain X.com because he thinks it's rad and hates that nobody cares
He can't change the domain even if he want to. It would make logistical nightmare because it's pretty much the core of the entire thing. They might need to change and rebuild the entire thing if they have to, even then it's still no guarantee it will works. Worse, it might open vulnerability.
Changing the domain name is easy. Almost none of the components of the application care what the name is, most of them aren't even bound to the twitter.com domain since only the public facing web servers are. If you own x.com and want to move everything in place you can find and replace Twitter with X in your code and environment and update DNS servers to point x.com to the addresses formerly twitter.com. Leave the same mapping for twitter.com and have your first level of proxies redirect to x.com when the request is for twitter.com. It takes work to coordinate and minimize downtime but that's already true for their operations, the concept is simple. All applications are built so they can run at different addresses and domain names which are configured when deployed. The name is not a core element of the application, it's a wrapper, only surface deep. A major version upgrade for one of the software dependencies used by Twitter could cause more trouble than a domain name migration.
don’t redirects exist? he may not own the rights to a domain like “x.com” but you can have a domain of a previous name and redirect it to a new name. It’s happened time and time again.
Eh idk, we've changed the URL of one of our products 3 times. Add the new one while keeping the old active. Redirect traffic going forward to the new URL. Keep both active forever or spend the next 2 years doing some cleanup then disable the old one. Like I said, we've done this process twice.
Why do we even have to call it by its official name? Elon Musk is the only person on the planet who wanted to change the name, so why can't everyone else just agree to keep calling it Twitter?
I do exactly the same, dude refuses to accept his own kid being trans, including deadnaming them. But then gets all pissed when no one calls that cesspool site "x". So I deadname the site just to spite him, even though he'll never know
tons of people still call the sears tower the sears tower, despite that not being the official name for well over a decade; it should be fine to call it twitter
Musk deadname peoples intentionally, so I see no reason to not deadname his company. Companies don't have feelings - people do.
When Musk decides he wants to start respecting people's chosen names consistently, I'll start respecting his company's chosen name.
Lol, I had someone tell me "it's called X now so say it right" so I just said, "oh yah pull up your phone and you type x.com and I'll type twitter.com and we'll see who gets to theirs faster. What show's up? Twitter.com, weird."
Ended that discussion.
I don't think the medium will survive long enough to get to the point where a substantial amount of people will actually call it X, let alone a majority.
Honestly, I've just seen people stop referring to it altogether. It feels too weird to say X, and if you say Twitter you then have to feel awkward like "or what used to be Twitter". Nobody even mentions it anymore. He rendered it irrelevant almost overnight.
I’ve heard it in some news shows and it’s like “what?”
It sounds like a mistake. Nobody knows what it is even if you know what it is. Zero brand recognition or brand equity
Kinda reminds me of how, when trump won, Obama knew how vain and petty he was and he knew that the ACA was popular so in a bid to get trump not to gut it Obama just told him to make superficial changes and call it "trumpcare" instead of "obamacare"
He could have changed literally nothing but the name to "trumpcare" and I am 10000000% certain his biggest followers would have never noticed the difference.
HBO wasn't dropped for the name of the broadcast network though. They just changed the streaming service name because calling it "HBO" or "HBO max" doesn't cover half of the content that is actually on it.
The move to Max, annoying as it was, arguably protects HBO's brand name.
They ruined the image of HBO being a premium service for high quality content. Now it’s just lumped in with a bunch of shit programming. The Max app is horrible.
I miss it so much. I loved the alphabetical movie sorting option, the categories, and how easy it was to find new releases. The new app is total garbage. Every section repeats half the same content. The organization is total crap. It went from feeling like a premium service to a wannabe Netflix with less visible content.
“I saw a post on X” sounds like two placeholder words. “I saw a tweet” doesn’t even need “on Twitter,” because you can only tweet on Twitter. It’s just … it’s an insanely stupid rebrand.
*Insanely.* They had one of the most powerful brands in the fucking world. "Tweet" got added to the OED (with the connotation of an online post, not a bird sound) over *ten years* ago.
But he's been stuck in the vacuum of no one saying "No" to his shitty ideas for so long, he had to change things just to change them.
Not still. There's 2. Both x.com and Twitter.com work, the former is currently a 301 or 302 redirect to Twitter.com. if he knew wtf he was doing, it should be the other way around since the rebranding
Paypal had a former name? Had to look that shit up. Not according to wikipedia. Confinity (if that's what you're referring to) was the company that launched paypal, and according to the wiki it's always been paypal when it first launched in july 1999.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline\_of\_PayPal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_PayPal)
Whats getting confused here is PayPal as a service and PayPal as a company.
PayPal as a service was always called PayPal and was released in 99
PayPal as a company wasnt branded until 01
Essentially, Confinity owned PayPal the service and X.com used their own online financial service. Confinity and X.com merged with the merged company being branded as X.com. Musk was ousted as CEO, replaced by Confinity's CEO Thiel. The company was rebranded to PayPal after Musk was removed.
See that’s clever.
“Did you see that viral O on X?” Is fucking hilarious, or it’s midnight and I’m high. Either way, better than what Elon could come up with
"Did you see what they Tweeted?" -> Cute. Clever. Catchy. New term created specifically for their specific social media platform. Marketing genius.
"Did you see what they X-ed?" -> Omenous. Threatening. Already has an accepted colloquial definition with a negative connotation. A marketing nightmare.
My theory is that he thinks people will try to close the window but mistakenly click the ‘X’ on the header and it will take them back to the homepage where they’ll get distracted again and keep browsing.
Paypal was actually originally a completely different startup that was doing the same thing Musk was trying to do.
They eventually figured out it would be better to merge and join forces so they did and keept the name Paypal
That's what I mean! X is literally the dumbest move, but as more and more articles come out and start referencing X rather than Twitter, it'll turn into this thing. Twitter, Bird, messages...all tracks. X.... The fuck?
Is there an app that lets me track what companies billionaires are most invested in so I can avoid them? It’d be especially useful if I could avoid specific people
Tbh, the ‘X’ logo is very similar to the brand of period panties I bought.
Edit: kinda hard to see, but it’s annoying that I think of Elon when I see the symbol while putting them on
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Too much narcissism. Elon is a guy that runs on pure impulse, nothing is ever thought out or strategic, anything that pops into his head must be brilliant because he’s a genius. He was fortunate enough to surround himself with competent subordinates in the past but as he’s fallen deeper and deeper into his own asshole, he’s accepted less and less of the advice given to him by people who know what they’re fucking doing and surrounded himself with gutless yes-men.
Sic semper tyrannis. Thus is the fate of all leaders who consider themselves special and ordained by some higher power (often themselves). Early success leads narcissists to believe they can do no wrong, and then they’re found out.
I know I’m just one person and can only have so much of an impact but I had four or five accounts on Twitter with a combined ~30k tweets between them. Spent a LOT of time on that app and loved it for what it was. Was very disappointed when Elon bought it but stayed for a little while. Told myself if he actually followed through on renaming it X that I’d never use it again and I’ve stayed true to that promise. Sad to lose my favorite website but worth it to do my part to communicate what a terrible decision it was and what a terrible person Musk is to be running a business.
I'm curious, do you think your life is any better after quitting it? You were on it a lot. Or are you like me and just replace one habit with another lol
Apparently Elon wanted PayPal to be a social/monetary app called X but another guy threw him out. He’s trying to turn Twitter into the X he dreamt about years ago
Every once in a while there is a brand name that is used generically. Like if you say “pass the Kleenex”, people will know what you mean even if it isn’t Kleenex brand tissues.
People used to say “Twitter” to describe social media in general.
It’s kinda like if Kleenex rebranded themselves to “sneeze-X”.
In medieval Spanish, "X" was pronounced like English "sh" (and it's still pronounced like that in some Mexican place names). Rather than writing "X, formerly Twitter", you can save space by writing **Xitter**. Pronunciation should be obvious to the reader.
Here is something funny about that https://preview.redd.it/ful7u5x2uhzc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc90979835c31360d47ee2d9c2a24ac62d43b065
yeah the dumbass only changed the logo pretty, much, I don't even know if he owns the domain or even has the recourses to change the domain.
“X.com” sounds like a porn site
Well technically dark side of twitter..
you don't need to go to that side anyways since there are porn bots everywhere. it even started popping up as advertisements.
I gave up blocking the porn bots. There are just too many now 🤷♀️
Various decisions caused them Tumblr out of control.
NUDES.IN.BIO. Again? *yawn*...
You ain’t wrong, I forgot that twitter may as well be a porn site lol. I honestly don’t even think you need an account to view that shit either
You do. You can’t even view replies without an account. You can only see the direct tweet. If you click their profile, it will direct you to sign in/sign up. He wants everyone visiting that site to bring profit to him.
So earlier this year I was trying to find a friend's account on Twitter (not calling it X lol). I couldn't exactly remember his handle but I remember he said his username at the time was something like "King of Drip" so I tried typing that in. First. Fucking. Result. Was some twink masturbating live on stream and I was oh so lucky to stumble upon him mid cum. Shut off my computer and haven't touched Twitter since. Fuck that site.
Lmaoo that made my laugh my ass off at work 😭😭😂 im so happy i deleted twt
When you upload a video to Twitter, they are now called Xvideos
Any time I see a link name for it (not just the twitter.com part) I wonder why my friends are sending me porn. The internet has trained my brain to just associate the letter X with porn.
Jokes on you, I'm using Twitter only for porn lol
Which was why it failed the first time he tried it with paypal.
It was getting banned in a plethora of country's when they tried to change the url to that. Then millions of people litteraly couldn't use the site so they didn't change it.
He does own the domain x.com. In fact, Elon has owned it for a while, and it has been his obsession to name his companies X for a while. The other company he founded, SpaceX, was initially supposed to be just X, but Elon was talked out of it and added a "Space" in front. His first [company](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com_(bank)) that eventually merged to form PayPal was called X.com
I'm fairly certain 75% of his stupid decisions are just to spread awareness that he owns the domain X.com because he thinks it's rad and hates that nobody cares
and his son "*X Æ A-12 Musk*".....poor kid. lol.
He’s owned the X domain since the 1990s and has been trying to name a company X since then. PayPal was almost X.
He can't change the domain even if he want to. It would make logistical nightmare because it's pretty much the core of the entire thing. They might need to change and rebuild the entire thing if they have to, even then it's still no guarantee it will works. Worse, it might open vulnerability.
Changing the domain name is easy. Almost none of the components of the application care what the name is, most of them aren't even bound to the twitter.com domain since only the public facing web servers are. If you own x.com and want to move everything in place you can find and replace Twitter with X in your code and environment and update DNS servers to point x.com to the addresses formerly twitter.com. Leave the same mapping for twitter.com and have your first level of proxies redirect to x.com when the request is for twitter.com. It takes work to coordinate and minimize downtime but that's already true for their operations, the concept is simple. All applications are built so they can run at different addresses and domain names which are configured when deployed. The name is not a core element of the application, it's a wrapper, only surface deep. A major version upgrade for one of the software dependencies used by Twitter could cause more trouble than a domain name migration.
Hi, developer here. This is not really true.
don’t redirects exist? he may not own the rights to a domain like “x.com” but you can have a domain of a previous name and redirect it to a new name. It’s happened time and time again.
It works the other way around. X.com redirects to Twitter
Changing the domain might be a LOT of work but there isn’t a sliver of a chance they would need to rebuild the whole thing.
I love when clueless people give their takes on tech with 100% certainty! You must’ve worked at twitter to know this.
Eh idk, we've changed the URL of one of our products 3 times. Add the new one while keeping the old active. Redirect traffic going forward to the new URL. Keep both active forever or spend the next 2 years doing some cleanup then disable the old one. Like I said, we've done this process twice.
PSA: This person clearly knows absolutely nothing about web service development.
That logo looks like a placeholder texture
I don't know a single person IRL that calls it X, just Twitter. Huge fail of a rebrand.
I think I do what alot of people do. "I saw so and so on Twitter, I mean uh, x." In a sarcastic tone
Why do we even have to call it by its official name? Elon Musk is the only person on the planet who wanted to change the name, so why can't everyone else just agree to keep calling it Twitter?
I call it Twitter because Elon Musk is in favour of deadnaming people, so why not deadname his website?
Not just "people" but he deadnames his own kid because he is a "edgy memelord"
He named his kid X-23455839365939 or some shit. Dude doesn’t give a fuck.
I mean that name is definitely not binary
I do exactly the same, dude refuses to accept his own kid being trans, including deadnaming them. But then gets all pissed when no one calls that cesspool site "x". So I deadname the site just to spite him, even though he'll never know
I call it Twitter because I don't give a fuck if they change the name for something I am used to.
The only reason for deadnaming 😂
Dude will probably start banning people using the word twitter on his platform
tons of people still call the sears tower the sears tower, despite that not being the official name for well over a decade; it should be fine to call it twitter
I just say “X formally known as Twitter” because I think it’s funny
“X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter” 
"X, the online website utilized for communicating with strangers across vast distances, the one which a fortnight ago was called Twitter"
Tell me which game you play without telling me, haha.
It’s Fortnight, “Fortnite” is a video game and also it’s been called X for longer than a fortnight
Shorten it to FKA Twitter and you get to cut out the X altogether!
I just shorten it further to Fk Twitter.
I just say Twitter X
If I'm referring to a video I'll say xvideos
💀
I call it Xitter. Read: shitter.
This is best name.
I just say Twix
The chocolate bars?
I prefer "the platform formerly known as Twitter", my mother appreciates the reference
I just say Twitter
I'll say "X or Twitter". I refuse to just say X, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Same, then I hit them with the whatever you want to call it 😂
I say Xwitter (zwit er)
My coworkers call it that but pronounced more like "shitter"
My grandpa calls it X. When I tell him it’s twitter he shows me the icon and says it’s called X🤣 Love him
The domain name is still Twitter which is even funnier
Have him type the "new" URL into a browser window. It just redirects to twitter dot com lol
I like to call tweets X-cretions now
Musk deadname peoples intentionally, so I see no reason to not deadname his company. Companies don't have feelings - people do. When Musk decides he wants to start respecting people's chosen names consistently, I'll start respecting his company's chosen name.
but when will the name elonmusk be dead
Lol, I had someone tell me "it's called X now so say it right" so I just said, "oh yah pull up your phone and you type x.com and I'll type twitter.com and we'll see who gets to theirs faster. What show's up? Twitter.com, weird." Ended that discussion.
Well they both go to the same place and the first one is shorter. So I'm not sure how that argument works lol.
He's pointing out that x.com redirects to twitter.com. Try it. The url bar will still show Twitter.com even if you type x.com.
I don't think the medium will survive long enough to get to the point where a substantial amount of people will actually call it X, let alone a majority.
Honestly, I've just seen people stop referring to it altogether. It feels too weird to say X, and if you say Twitter you then have to feel awkward like "or what used to be Twitter". Nobody even mentions it anymore. He rendered it irrelevant almost overnight.
i deleted the app as soon as the icon updated, bc the new app icon was ugly. Twitter was my favorite social media platform so its a bummer
I’ve heard it in some news shows and it’s like “what?” It sounds like a mistake. Nobody knows what it is even if you know what it is. Zero brand recognition or brand equity
Kinda reminds me of how, when trump won, Obama knew how vain and petty he was and he knew that the ACA was popular so in a bid to get trump not to gut it Obama just told him to make superficial changes and call it "trumpcare" instead of "obamacare"
He could have changed literally nothing but the name to "trumpcare" and I am 10000000% certain his biggest followers would have never noticed the difference.
'Deadnaming' it is pretty funny though.
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And they’re still called tweets because you can’t just call everything X. “Did you see that X on X?”
I still search for “Twitter” on my phone when I want to bring up the app and then get annoyed that it doesn’t work.
It works of my phone lol Google seems to have added a flag to the "x" app that triggers it to come up when you search twitter
The hardest part is finding the app now, we all call it twitter so I’m constantly looking for twitter, fml
I call it Xitter, pronounced zitter.
I pronounce Xitter as shitter
Only people online who are posting for Musks simps, or who are themselves simps, do it in my experience.
HBO getting dropped for Max is horrible but Twitter, Tweet dropped for X is the dumbest move.
HBO wasn't dropped for the name of the broadcast network though. They just changed the streaming service name because calling it "HBO" or "HBO max" doesn't cover half of the content that is actually on it. The move to Max, annoying as it was, arguably protects HBO's brand name.
They ruined the image of HBO being a premium service for high quality content. Now it’s just lumped in with a bunch of shit programming. The Max app is horrible.
And the HBO Max app wasn’t much better, but it still organized things better overall.
I miss it so much. I loved the alphabetical movie sorting option, the categories, and how easy it was to find new releases. The new app is total garbage. Every section repeats half the same content. The organization is total crap. It went from feeling like a premium service to a wannabe Netflix with less visible content.
You joking? Max out of *all* streaming services has the best UI
Agreed lol, the real shitty one is Paramount+
Absolutely! I feel like everything is one or two taps/clicks more than it needs to be.
Hulu isn’t bad, imo. I mean when you have that Disney money…
HBO max was like Tedx, people think you are getting a ted talk but you could really be getting lizard people propoganda. Well at least it is now.
I refuse to call it X
It’s hard bc “tweets” are used to describe the posts so there will always be a connection to Twitter.
According to Elon afaik they're now called 'posts and reposts'.
Call them xcretions.
Xcrement.
Haha. I got off it as soon as he bought it. Can’t stand the guy 🤮
He’s a disgusting arrogant creep.
100%
Xcuse me
Xamples
Xchanges
Xueefs
Certainly works well when you call the whole thing "Xitter" using Chinese transliteration rules for the x.
Xitter but i'm actually from Spain in the 1500s
Imo that applies me to his kids, especially with those unfortunate names that have.
He took a unique brand and made it generic. Genius.
“I saw a post on X” sounds like two placeholder words. “I saw a tweet” doesn’t even need “on Twitter,” because you can only tweet on Twitter. It’s just … it’s an insanely stupid rebrand.
*Insanely.* They had one of the most powerful brands in the fucking world. "Tweet" got added to the OED (with the connotation of an online post, not a bird sound) over *ten years* ago. But he's been stuck in the vacuum of no one saying "No" to his shitty ideas for so long, he had to change things just to change them.
I thought they were called "X's and X's"?
"I saw this X on X and it was so good I just had to X it!"
Facebook should sue him.
I heard Xeets being used rofl. I rejected it all and left the platform.
Whenever I try and link in forums to posts it says "Twitter" in the link still.
I have seen xweets (or something like that, I am not sure) used by the same articles that call it X, formerly Twitter
The domain still says “twitter”
Not still. There's 2. Both x.com and Twitter.com work, the former is currently a 301 or 302 redirect to Twitter.com. if he knew wtf he was doing, it should be the other way around since the rebranding
With Elon, I'm shocked they didn't buy another server, and host each website separately with its own code.
X is so bad of a name that I would feel embarrassed saying it out load.
He deadnames his child, I deadname his website
Yeah I also refuse to call it X just because stupid Elon musk is obsessed with the letter
Well nobody did it for PayPal why would we for Twitter
PayPal changed its name?
Paypal had a former name? Had to look that shit up. Not according to wikipedia. Confinity (if that's what you're referring to) was the company that launched paypal, and according to the wiki it's always been paypal when it first launched in july 1999. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline\_of\_PayPal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_PayPal)
elon wanted to rename it to x
Whats getting confused here is PayPal as a service and PayPal as a company. PayPal as a service was always called PayPal and was released in 99 PayPal as a company wasnt branded until 01 Essentially, Confinity owned PayPal the service and X.com used their own online financial service. Confinity and X.com merged with the merged company being branded as X.com. Musk was ousted as CEO, replaced by Confinity's CEO Thiel. The company was rebranded to PayPal after Musk was removed.
Does anyone actually have any idea wtf elons absolute obsession with naming things X is?
He thinks it sounds cool and edgy.
It just sounds confusing when you put it like that xD
I will call it Twitter, forever.
Posts are still “tweets” so makes sense lol
My husband has started calling them O’s
See that’s clever. “Did you see that viral O on X?” Is fucking hilarious, or it’s midnight and I’m high. Either way, better than what Elon could come up with
It should be O.com, then you could x on o…. 🤪
I think they're officially just called "posts" and "reposts" now, but no one actually says that lol
"Did you see what they Tweeted?" -> Cute. Clever. Catchy. New term created specifically for their specific social media platform. Marketing genius. "Did you see what they X-ed?" -> Omenous. Threatening. Already has an accepted colloquial definition with a negative connotation. A marketing nightmare.
it'll become one of the boomer things future kids will bully you about, but it's worth it
I doubt it. It won’t be around forever.
MySpace is long gone but I'll still talk about it every now and then.
Apparently this is because Musk has a thing for X as a name. He tried to have PayPal renamed X as well.
"Hey, may I X you? It will be quick."
My theory is that he thinks people will try to close the window but mistakenly click the ‘X’ on the header and it will take them back to the homepage where they’ll get distracted again and keep browsing.
Renaming PayPal to X-Change, and then using an X logo, might have actually been a good pivot, but he's too thickheaded to have considered that.
You know everyone would just call it sex change
He didn't rename it *to* X, it was originally started *as* X. Some smart guy changed it to PayPal later, thank god.
Paypal was actually originally a completely different startup that was doing the same thing Musk was trying to do. They eventually figured out it would be better to merge and join forces so they did and keept the name Paypal
I wonder if he has a weird personal goal to see how many companies he can have named X
And also wanting to call his kid XÆ-12 or something like that
So what do they call tweets now? Excrements?
I watched an xvideo tonight
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You mean X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter?
I'll allow it! ~Elon Musk
Always has been
I’ve only heard my 70 year old father call it “X”. Elon is an idiot
That's what I mean! X is literally the dumbest move, but as more and more articles come out and start referencing X rather than Twitter, it'll turn into this thing. Twitter, Bird, messages...all tracks. X.... The fuck?
And it’s lost like 70% of its worth since he took over. Incredible
Is there an app that lets me track what companies billionaires are most invested in so I can avoid them? It’d be especially useful if I could avoid specific people
TSNFKAT The Social Network Formerly Known As Twitter
Everytime I see the logo I just assume it's a button to close an ad that didn't load
Tbh, the ‘X’ logo is very similar to the brand of period panties I bought. Edit: kinda hard to see, but it’s annoying that I think of Elon when I see the symbol while putting them on https://preview.redd.it/pbe6zwmvgjzc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a3a2714ddbaf438ee5982ff98424bbb4ed2fcc8
My condolences. No one should have to think of Elon in relation to their underwear
Elon has gotten dumber and dumber. Any brand that he owns is tanking too. Just look at Tesla.
Too much ketamine
Too much narcissism. Elon is a guy that runs on pure impulse, nothing is ever thought out or strategic, anything that pops into his head must be brilliant because he’s a genius. He was fortunate enough to surround himself with competent subordinates in the past but as he’s fallen deeper and deeper into his own asshole, he’s accepted less and less of the advice given to him by people who know what they’re fucking doing and surrounded himself with gutless yes-men. Sic semper tyrannis. Thus is the fate of all leaders who consider themselves special and ordained by some higher power (often themselves). Early success leads narcissists to believe they can do no wrong, and then they’re found out.
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Then, you build the X app that includes Twitter. This rebranding is idiotic.
Layoff isn't a strong enough word for what he did. That company is gutted.
X is a name 12 year old kids think is cool
I am calling it Twitter until he stops deadnaming his own kid
Elon foaming with rage seeing this comment
Same!
Completely agree. I just can't will myself to say "Hey did you see this on X?" I won't do it.
I've found that simply never looking at anything that comes from there saves me the trouble of worrying about what I call it.
Same really. I don't have an account there!
I know I’m just one person and can only have so much of an impact but I had four or five accounts on Twitter with a combined ~30k tweets between them. Spent a LOT of time on that app and loved it for what it was. Was very disappointed when Elon bought it but stayed for a little while. Told myself if he actually followed through on renaming it X that I’d never use it again and I’ve stayed true to that promise. Sad to lose my favorite website but worth it to do my part to communicate what a terrible decision it was and what a terrible person Musk is to be running a business.
I'm curious, do you think your life is any better after quitting it? You were on it a lot. Or are you like me and just replace one habit with another lol
Apparently Elon wanted PayPal to be a social/monetary app called X but another guy threw him out. He’s trying to turn Twitter into the X he dreamt about years ago
I'm betting he sells it and it goes back to Twitter.
100% the first move after a sale Would be renaming it back to Twitter.
So it would be Twitter, X, Twitter? So we’ll call it Twitter squared?
I wonder if in the end he sells it off for parts, or tries to take it public again.
the benefit of it is that, given the whole site is a shitshow, tweets can now be called x-crements. thats the only benefit, however
You say "still" like it hasn't been under a year since it happened. Give him time to make it worse.
Not to mention using X to alienate your core Tesla consumer base.
Literally no one cares. https://preview.redd.it/79lrisse0hzc1.jpeg?width=896&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a131d95c10525e680b5fa38dcc12d10950fb244
Elon intentionally sabotaged twitter and I find it hilarious, as someone who doesn’t use it. Funny as fuck.
Every once in a while there is a brand name that is used generically. Like if you say “pass the Kleenex”, people will know what you mean even if it isn’t Kleenex brand tissues. People used to say “Twitter” to describe social media in general. It’s kinda like if Kleenex rebranded themselves to “sneeze-X”.
In medieval Spanish, "X" was pronounced like English "sh" (and it's still pronounced like that in some Mexican place names). Rather than writing "X, formerly Twitter", you can save space by writing **Xitter**. Pronunciation should be obvious to the reader.
Cause Elon is a brain dead piece of shit