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[ManaByte]

 

[PSYGN]

Marketing speak makes me vomit

 

[Hawking Radiation]

 

[Deleted member 1159]

 

[Drake]

It seems like insanity to me to drop the twitter branding, but then again I'm not the richest man in the world, so what the heck do I know.

 

[Thirty7ven]

Elon really gotta cut down on the drugs.

 

[DKehoe]

 

[newtypepilot]

 

[Fools idol]

guys life is an absolute parody within itself at this point, completely unhinged. It bothers me greatly how much power and money this loon has we should all be concerned

 

[Wildebeest]

When I read something like that, all I can think is that humanity is a failure. We deserve to be over as a species, so something better like radioactive mould or toxic dung beetles can inherit the earth.

 

[NinjaMouse]

keep fucking that chicken, lol. There's no way anyone other than Elon is buying into this idea in good faith.

 

[LegendOfKage]

Elon is the closest thing we have to a defender of free speech online, and he's proven over and over to be an idiot and a hypocrite, so I guess we're all just screwed.

 

[dem]

Dropping the twitter name and logo is absolutely insane. You see the logo everywhere.

X is just absurdly generic

 

[Trunx81]

Can´t wait to x about this on X and get a lot of re-x.

 

[TDiddyLive]

I just checked, and x.com 301 redirects to twitter.com

It's happening.

Elon's owned x.com since prior to PayPal. It redirected to PayPal for a while and, for a little while, redirected to The Boring Company.

 

[EviLore]

Elon's owned x.com since prior to PayPal. It redirected to PayPal for a while and, for a little while, redirected to The Boring Company.

Yes, but the redirect to Twitter is new.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Elon is the closest thing we have to a defender of free speech online,

lol no

and he's proven over and over to be an idiot and a hypocrite, so I guess we're all just screwed.

Hmmm yes.

 

[Toons]

The real reason

Kinda goes hard ngl

Cheap "the crow" cosplay is a better look than whatever he's trying to sell now at least.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

It seems like insanity to me to drop the twitter branding, but then again I'm not the richest man in the world, so what the heck do I know.

Lets not forget a Pakistani billionaire got into a tube held together with glue to visit the Titanic. Having more money doesn't necesarilly make you the smartest one in the room.

 

[Toons]

I don't care, I don't twit.

But, for the last year twitter was supposed to die 1,069,690 times according to the internet as a whole.

So, I am curious... when will it actually happen?

Rome didn't fall in a day. No empire does.

But they all spend a long time dying, and Twitter surviving the next couple years is going to be a a divine miracle at this point.

Wouldn't be the first time a major site has fallen. There was a time MySpace was untouchable.

The creation of threads posts a serious threat to twi-- i mean, 'x' longevity and it doesn't seem like Elon seems to have any clue how to turn things around.

 

[cash_longfellow]

He got to be sinking twitter intentionally

Hopefully….shits a cesspool.

 

[Mistake]

Terrible idea. Twitter already has brand recognition and phrases. Look at what Zuck tried. It didn't stick, so only the parent company is meta, but everyone still calls it facebook

This doesn't surprise me though with the names of Elon's kids

 

[Jsisto]

Can't wait for the partnership with xvideos. Also, I imagine "X" is what a lot of people will be clicking on their browsers!! Hahahahaha!…..

I think everyone should just collectively give up trying to understand this man's thought process.

 

[Porcile]

I wanna eat a Twix right now.

 

[IFireflyl]

I just checked, and x.com 301 redirects to twitter.com

It's happening.

Can you confirm if xxx redirects to Twitter as well? For research purposes.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

"I'm not leaving Twitter but Twitter is dead! RIP Twitter." - Twitter user

Seriously, all i fucking see is people crying that Twitter is dead/dying. Well fuck off then? Go use Mastodon/Threads and stop the bloody moaning.

 

[The Pleasure]

That's the same font for the Chinese massage here.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

Z makes more sense.

ThreadZ
Zuck

 

[Laieon]

Xvids trending is hilarious.

 

[LegendOfKage]

lol no

Then who is? I've been asking, but no one has been answering. Which social media company is doing the best job of protecting US citizens from government influenced censorship of legal speech? If it's not currently twitter, which company is it?

 

[UnravelKatharsis]

Twitters new logo will be rentable as an ever changing advertisement space. X is the stand in, the blank slate.

 

[TGO]

PayPal was originally named X btw

X.com - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Then who is? I've been asking, but no one has been answering. Which social media company is doing the best job of protecting US citizens from government influenced censorship of legal speech? If it's not currently twitter, which company is it?

Certainly not the guy caving to every authoritarian country's censorship demands, and excusing it by saying "well it's either do what they say or they shut us down."

 

[Laieon]

Then who is? I've been asking, but no one has been answering. Which social media company is doing the best job of protecting US citizens from government influenced censorship of legal speech? If it's not currently twitter, which company is it?

Probably anything on the Fediverse, but definitely not Elon and friends.

 

[AJUMP23]

Next X-men.

 

[DrFigs]

Is this a "The Producers" style grift? Not sure what the plan is here aside from alienating patrons.

 

[Rentahamster]

Then who is? I've been asking, but no one has been answering. Which social media company is doing the best job of protecting US citizens from government influenced censorship of legal speech? If it's not currently twitter, which company is it?

Does there have to be one? None of them are. Protecting free speech is not a core tenet of any of their business models. Wishing they are something they aren't is missing the point.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

The real reason

is GAF in danger?

 

[SnapShot]

new porno website looking promising

 

[CGNoire]

The real reason

Is that real?

What year is that?

 

[CGNoire]

Can't wait for the partnership with xvideos. Also, I imagine "X" is what a lot of people will be clicking on their browsers!! Hahahahaha!…..

I think everyone should just collectively give up trying to understand this man's thought process.

Hahaha...so true. Dat autofill when typing X in browser

 

[Mr Blobby]

i thought he was balding, that photo can't be real

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

I mean he's not wrong that all-in apps like Weibo can be successful, but worryingly part of the reason it's successful in China is that it's easier for the government to shut you down if everything in your online life is reduced to a single provider.

In more democratic countries separate services that cooperate has been the norm and I'd say the later model is more resilient since it doesn't have a single point of failure.

 

[GymWolf]

X? Not surprised, didn't he named the son he had with the goblin over a math formula or some shit?

 

[jufonuk]

Musk is a fucking moron

I don't even mean this in the online "I disagree with his decisions" way. I mean he's just a really stupid person.

It took you this long to realise. It's the people behind him or the ones making the products not him. When he lets things be they are ok but when he tries to interfere etc he fucks shit up. Twitter has been him given free reign look how fast he turned it to shit.

 

[DKehoe]

 

[-Minsc-]

Once this happens it's two steps away from XXX.com

 

[winjer]

So much verbal diarrhea.

 

[SidViscous]

I thought Elon said they didn't need a PR department.

 

[Lord Panda]

Peak lunacy. Otherwise known as a normal day for Elon.