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.
Nah. I’m just gonna keep deadnaming Twitter for as long as Musk keeps deadnaming his child.
Deadnaming Twitter is the only deadnaming I support
I compromise and call it Xitter. (The X is pronounced with a “sh” sound.) I think it fits.
I’m surprised this doesn’t catch on more, it’s absolute perfection.
Media predicts the future yet again.
It clashes with this mobile application: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.nuclearfog.twidda/
Wow… They just totally embraced it, huh.
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”.
Just Y!
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.
LOL i follow that guy on Threads now. So poor use of $44B!
The user base so he can do his fantasy payment system.
I guess the user base. But he was also shitting all over that saying it was mostly bots. You could say it was a strategy to bring the price down, but he still paid $44B so that didn’t work.
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.
“xcremement”
The xtra creamy version of xcrement.
💩
Here’s a low stakes conspiracy. Musk went all in on the “Birds aren’t real” thing, and is now trying to erase birds from the internet.
I’m still convinced, this all came out because he was butt-hurt about plane tracking and other things, also a convenient dump for Tesla stocks people keep thinking he cares about twitter like the users do, for him, it’s prob just Tuesday
Also a lot of left-leaning discourse happened there, from American liberals to actual-left communists. The Arab Spring had a lot of coordination happen there (hence the Saudi’s involvement) and the power-hungry capital owners of the world were probably getting tired of being called out. So Elon took one for the team, probably thinking best case he could get bailed out, worst case he could destroy the “public square” that hated on him so much.
Now the site is just garbage on top of garbage and everyone is looking elsewhere. If he was gonna be forced to buy it, he sure wasn’t just gonna let the above slide…
I’ve been thinking this as well. I mean, at this point I don’t see any reason why else he could’ve reasonably done this. Either he’s making no sense, or it’s something like this. Twitter stood for many things he’s against, and he has just completely ruined it
“Hated on him”?
There was definitely a contingent that did that, but for the most part, Musk had been pretty much invulnerable to criticism, with thousands of fanbois ready to jump to his defence. He’s brought pretty much all of this on himself since he took it over, he’s hurt his own brand way more than Xitter’s.
I like the idea that people at Space X and Tesla dropped Twitter in the corpo baby’s lap so that he’d be distracted from the nice toys.
Nah, the guy is a clearly addicted, Twitter and that’s it
Enjoy the show, this pyre is fucking massive. Literally turned a brand that became engrained into culture and destroyed it in record time.
Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.
Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.
X has now become just like any other social media platform. Posts are just called “posts” just like anywhere else.
Looks like Elon Musk has become the Elongated Muskrat once again.
So if they have publicly abandoned the Twitter brand identity, can someone else use it?
Because a lot of people are ready for a retro clone.
Would be pretty hilarious for something to take the name. But it’s doubtful that they release the name. Twitter.com still directs to x.com
Start calling everything posted online a tweet and eventually it’ll become a generic trademark.
Hehe twitter stocks go brrrrr
Maybe I missed the joke, but Twitter no longer has stocks since Elon took it private.
Elon wants to change everything about the site and he will.
They are actually xweets
Xcrements
Long live masto!
