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- a baby, candy, it's like taking.
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I gather this is one of those what traipses in with a random bitchfit and then nopes out.
Elon's Antics
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Why does it feel like this decision was made a week ago? I’ve never seen a rebrand go so badly
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- GTP_TheCracker
'Twitter' and more so 'tweeting' is such a well established concept and so ingrained culturally that i can't see that easily changing to something else. Especially not 'X'. Elon, stop trying to make 'X' a thing.
Zuckerberg understands this which is why Meta is just the parent company but the brand is still Facebook, even though the platform has evolved well beyond what the name evoked originally. WhatsApp is still WhatsApp, it's not Meta Instant Messaging and Instagram is still Instagram and not Meta Photo & Video Sharing. You've got to understand the power of 'the brand' and what that means to people.
Zuckerberg understands this which is why Meta is just the parent company but the brand is still Facebook, even though the platform has evolved well beyond what the name evoked originally. WhatsApp is still WhatsApp, it's not Meta Instant Messaging and Instagram is still Instagram and not Meta Photo & Video Sharing. You've got to understand the power of 'the brand' and what that means to people.
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If he wanted X.com to be a thing, he didn’t need to buy Twitter. With his standing in conservative circles, he could’ve paid a few million $ to build a copy-paste Twitter, gone on Joe Rogan to promote it and had people and advertisers flocking to it in minutes. A perfect and profitable X logo’d conservative echo chamber.
All his decisions; the name, the charging for blue ticks, the arguments with celebrity users, would be a lot more defensible if it was a new platform and this is just how it was from the outset.
At this stage, it does feel like a deliberate destruction of the “online town hall”. I figured there’d be a financial reason he’s doing this, but maybe I’m giving him too much credit. Maybe it’s just a straight up vendetta.
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For a time it looked like there might actually be something of a positive as people were looking into decentralized options like Mastodon, but now that Threads is a thing I feel like all this is serving to do is drive people even deeper into Meta/Facebook's ecosystem and have the exact opposite effect. As much as Elon is squalling about it he's actually giving Zuckerberg a huge assist by providing people more of a reason to go over to try Threads, and likely stay there if it provides a similar enough experience.
UKMikey
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The little reveal video Elon posted the other day is just a template animation from Envato
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Elon also took over the @X handle and offered the original owner some merch afterwards
www.telegraph.co.uk
arstechnica.com
Elon Musk takes over ‘valuable’ @x Twitter username – without paying
The social network replaced the bird icon with the letter X as part of its rebranding exercise
www.telegraph.co.uk
Twitter commandeers @X username from man who had it since 2007
Twitter took Gene X Hwang’s username and only offered him “some merch.”…
arstechnica.com
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If he decides to stay, his new handle should be @ElonstolemyXElon also took over the @X handle and offered the original owner some merch afterwards
Elon Musk takes over ‘valuable’ @x Twitter username – without paying
The social network replaced the bird icon with the letter X as part of its rebranding exercise
Twitter commandeers @X username from man who had it since 2007
Twitter took Gene X Hwang’s username and only offered him “some merch.”…
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Elon also took over the @X handle and offered the original owner some merch afterwards
Elon Musk takes over ‘valuable’ @x Twitter username – without paying
The social network replaced the bird icon with the letter X as part of its rebranding exercise
Twitter commandeers @X username from man who had it since 2007
Twitter took Gene X Hwang’s username and only offered him “some merch.”…
Besmerched
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Elon also took over the @X handle and offered the original owner some merch afterwards
Elon Musk takes over ‘valuable’ @x Twitter username – without paying
The social network replaced the bird icon with the letter X as part of its rebranding exercise
Twitter commandeers @X username from man who had it since 2007
Twitter took Gene X Hwang’s username and only offered him “some merch.”…
Besmerched
Thanks, going to the trademark office.
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Dear [insert name of corporate entity here]:
Do you remember how a few months ago we attached a gold checkmark to yourTwitter 𝕏 account in a rather hollow gesture to combat the hordes of trolls who paid us $8 to impersonate you and successfully did so for quite some time? Well, if you don't buy advertising on here, we're going to take that away even though it really didn't do anything to help the problem and you didn't actually ask for it in the first place.
We're offering discounts! And ice cream!*
Regards,
Elon Musk
Stable Genius
*there actually isn't any ice cream, we can't afford it
Do you remember how a few months ago we attached a gold checkmark to your
We're offering discounts! And ice cream!*
Regards,
Elon Musk
Stable Genius
*there actually isn't any ice cream, we can't afford it
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Erm... BP might disagree...
BP Trademark of BP p.l.c. - Registration Number 4128850 - Serial Number 85422518 :: Justia Trademarks
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