X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts::X is rolling out a new terms of service on September 29th, and one adjustment is a single instance of “retweet” to “repost.” There are other changes regarding data scraping and class action lawsuits.
This guy throws away one of the most famous brands in the entire world and then says “uh, it’s the Jews!”. Out of all the incredibly stupid things he has said, I still find “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” especially irritating.
Makes you wonder why he bought it in the first place. He’s thrown everything away: the employees, the offices, the code, and now the brand.
Isn’t because the courts made him do it after he definitely very seriously said he would buy it? Honestly I’ve kinda lost track of the details at this point and am just enjoying watching the worlds slowest train smash from afar
Yeah, from what I understand, he said he was going to buy it, then changed his mind, then the shareholders sued him because I guess there was a tentative deal.
Just shows me that Elon doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing, so spez looks up to him now? Yeah, I’m lost too.
Nah. I’m just gonna keep deadnaming Twitter for as long as Musk keeps deadnaming his child.
I compromise and call it Xitter. (The X is pronounced with a “sh” sound.) I think it fits.
It clashes with this mobile application: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.nuclearfog.twidda/
Nothing says marketing genius like throwing away one of the most recognisable brands in the industry and replacing it with “X”
When your brand gets to the point where it turns into a verb why on earth would you ever torpedo that?
It’s like if Google changed their name to “search” and prodded people to say “just search it” instead of “just google it”.
It’s even worse. It would be like Google changing their name to Y and telling people to “just search it”.
Wow, that’s… exceedingly boring.
Imagine buying some of the most recognized branding in the world and tossing it all away. Couldn’t be me.
I keep wondering what was the asset that Elon bought that was worth $44B? The brand? No, he flushed that down the toilet. The technology? No, he was crapping all over that from day one. The staff? No, he fired most of them. Twitter had no real estate. What was THE THING he paid $44B for?
What was THE THING he paid $44B for?
The only guess I can make is the private jet tracker, which he Streisanded into a subreddit where it will live forever. Lmao.
This is probably too conspiracy theory-ish, but I feel like he made some shady side deal or bet that he could destroy the company in record time. You know, bored rich people stuff. I personally can’t fathom how someone can be THAT incompetent and still run so many successful companies. He televises himself as a fool in the public scene, but we don’t know him personally, so we really can’t know. Maybe it’s all for show to highly underestimate him so he can swoop in at pivotal moments… Or he is genuinely a loser rich kid. Haha
I prefer “xcretion” or “xcremement” in general.
