No 😭😭😭
“Arr, this ❌ marks where I buried 44 billion doubloons!”
*billion
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Was Twitter ever really a left leaning platform in the first place? It pretty much always felt like it was filled with Russian bots and maga shit.
So I guess good job Musk for burning down a shit website? Lol
As a side note, Mastodon is legitimately fantastic. The community there is genuinely nice.
It was left leaning until about 2014. Then it slowly crept farther and farther right wing. Slowly bleeding users who didn’t want to deal with the fascist jerks. Slowly converting fence sitters into fascist jerks by normalizing fascism by pretending it was just asking questions, just making edgy jokes, you know the drill. Next, 2016 came. That for me was when the bottom fell out of twitter. The Russian twitter bots were everywhere. And it took twitter way too long to deal with it. I think by that point, the platform was ruined. It was never going to grow meaningfully by attracting new people. It was just going to slowly decay as people looked for their friends and favorite creators on Reddit, Discord, Youtube, or wherever else they went. But that decay would have been slow until Elon tanked it. His efforts have chased off users in droves
Most new platforms are left leaning from the start, because left leaning people are more likely to try out new platforms. Once platforms get mainstream they will be picked up by right leaning media.
Sounds about right. oh well.
This is like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
Shh, shh, let it happen, let it happen. Meanwhile, want some popcorn? I made like 3 tubs worth of it
I’ll take some…😂
I’ll take the popcorn but I’d rather watch another show. This one is getting so predictable.
It hasn’t been too slow 🍿
alright now we’re gonna have quite a big discussion as to what “x server” means. x11? twitter?
“guys x servers are down!”
“have you checked your .xinitrc? did you start x?”
“whats an x innit racecar? the x servers are down!”
“how do you use x without knowing what an .xinitrc is… oh”meanwhile reddit gonna rename themselves to “wayland”
I mean, Debian setup setting up .xinitrc for me on my computer has made me not need to know what it is. I think I should.
I forgot too. I use Wayland now anyway
He got a company and a social media that is remarkable, and recognizable, and even has an action verb related to it, “tweet, to tweet, tweeting”.
And he decided to piss on it and create the X app. Adding insult to injury is that it’s again, another techy black and white logo. Of course, because that’s the silicon valley trend isn’t it, black and white clean minimalist corporate logo, no soul, no community, just corporate all along.
I’m telling you, he has Covid fog.
He has a cocaine addiction
Guys, I’m starting to think this Elon guy isn’t as smart as he claims…
No rich person is actually smart, they are all addicted to money and can’t get help over it. But their moves in the business world are all calculated, this guy is doing exactly what he wants to do and their goal is to make money not to lose them.
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Lucky, or in Elmo’s case, born with a platinum spoon in his mouth thanks to daddy’s apartheid emerald mines.
They are lucky because the average person won’t even bother checking out on wikipedia how they become so rich
this guy is doing exactly what he wants to do and their goal is to make money not to lose them.
How does this make him money exactly? lol
He is literally just killing off his website.
My guess: the same way the now called Meta benefited from stalling facebook and moving people to their other platforms like instagram. These marketers perceive everything in market terms, twitter is old and they need to release a brand new product to hook people up
He’s like any other punk born into millions.
Depends.
If he thinks Twitter is irreperably dying, this may be a way, in which he can get out of repaying the loans he used to (partially) fund the buyout of twitter.
If you’re thinking this an “artist formerly known as Prince” sort of thing where Prince got out of a contract, I’m sure all the debt holders have the proper legal verbiage to have agreements remain valid in the event of a name change.
How does that get him out of the loans?
The lenders lawyer arrives at the Twitter office:
Lawyer: This is Twitter, is it?
Musk: (with a fake mustache) No, it’s X.
The bonesaw Saudi lenders :)
That makes me think of the theory about Saudi Arabia and probably other countries have had it in for Twitter since Arab Spring.
So this is just Elon doing as instructed: “Make Twitter disappear, but make it look like an accident”
Absolutely
depends how the loans worked.
I was assuming his majority shares of X (ex Twitter) collateral.
And that that he could just go “yeah, go on, collect on your collateral, I don’t mind”, because it’s not worth anything anymore.But admittedly I have no Idea how the contracts were drawn up, if this is possible and if his other money would be available to collect on.
At some point some creditor should be desperate enough to do a margin call, since the loan collateral is next to worthless.
An insight that’s coming a couple of years too late though.
It’s a joke.
I should’ve added a smiley face myself, sorry. I thought you were joking.
No worries. I’m genuinely relieved you were joking too!!
I think they should go with 💩Shitter - it’s where most people use it anyway.
Shitter is an app for Mastodon on F-Droid. Dont know why they decided that. Back handed compliment of a name. Work on an app then call it Shitter ! ? IDK
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@chiz X is so easy to search in internet. So many results; it gets never boring! Very unique name and brand.
Spez: Write it down, write it down! Let’s rename Reddit to Z! Employee: Why Z? Spez: What do you mean why? Does X make any sense to you too? Employee: All right, I should have never questioned you.
It’s like B, C, D, V, R in programming… If Reddit took X++ and someone else took X#, the unsearchable name trifecta would be complete!
.net is even worse.
Crying in former COM programming hell
What’s V? I don’t see it on the list. X++ is already taken, though… but I see a huge potential in Y*.
I don’t remember exactly what it is, all i remember is there’s a unix-like operating system written in it
but Y
Let them B
Z, because the “Spe” was just an afterthought this whole time…
pardon me… I have been laughing so hard reading this thread, it was the best I could come up with! 😂
Pay $44 billion for a brand
Literally destroy the brand
This is more baffling than accidentally destroying the brand, like he’s been doing.
It’s like he can’t destroy his company fast enough😂
Yeah this really makes sure Twitter will be x’ed.
He really put afterburner on that dumpster fire.
In a few years the only thing of value remaining of twitter will be the x.com domain
Space-X, X AE A-12, trying to create a company named X since the 90’s…
guys, I think elon musk is obsessed with Speed Racers Racer X. Why else would X be such a prominent motivator for this creature?
Any theories? Deal with the devil made at a crossroads? Or maybe he just was really used to railroad crossing signs as a kid and wants to relive those memories?
X is the naughty letter (rated X) in S3XY which is also the four tesla car model letter. 12 year old humor.
Who wants to tell him about Xorg and their product X11?
He will release X18
