Forty-four billion dollars to not have the employees, offices, servers, code, reputation, vetting, or brand.
And his hot new name for this smoldering ruin is… X.
Absolute fucking child.
I was 10 years old and got a GameCube game called Hot Wheels Velocity X. I hadn’t played it yet, but I told my friend I knew it would be cool because of the X.
That’s what Elon is like, and again, I was 10 years old
But did it turn out to be a cool game?
Yeah, it was awesome! Part of me thinks it would still hold up today
This man needs to be investigated as a national security threat. There’s no way this isn’t intentional sabotage at this point. It’s not an accident that he got the money for this from Saudis who benefit from destroying twitter.
Is not that bad lol he does that just to gain attraction and you are being baited
He’s only being incompetent for attention, says someone who thinks they’re defending him.
He is just baiting people and everyone is falling
He’s causing harm.
Doing it as a joke isn’t better.
Or true.
Imagine wanting to change the name of a world recognized company and the best you can come up with is “X”. 💀
and somehow it’s still better than his kids names
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Wow. Nobody has ever thought of using an X in their branding before. What a brilliant idea. This man’s vision knows no bounds. 🙄
It’s just that he own the domain name x.com since 1999 and is very proud of it. He wanted to do something with it so here we go.
I had no idea! X.com goes to Twitter. crazy.
Early 2000 energy.
He’s so XTREME
Roman numerals. Twitter is now “Ten”. Like Elon.
Speed Racer’s older brother beat him to it and he was the best racer of all time.
You mean to tell me that Racer X is in fact Rex Racer!? That is outrageous
Major spoiler. cmon man.
If you loved X, you’re going to love X ULTRA. Soon to be followed by X ULTRA PRO, & X ULTRA PRO LITE.
Almost forgot. We are sunsetting X, and you will need to pay for X ULTRA in order to do anything on your X account.
That’s very on brand for Musk, he seems to have an obsession with Xs.
he’s squatted on x.com for decades
He’s saving it for when the aliens arrive and he can finally become a tactical military commander
For what it’s worth, x.com was originally a novel and useful online banking platform in its heyday.
I used it at the time, pre Paypal.
That said, fuck Elon. He’s a fucking dumbass chode.
No one should pay attention to the name change. Just keep calling it Twitter. Like people won’t acknowledge that he doesn’t call himself Kanye anymore because he’s a piece of shit and why honor anything he asks for?
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Exactly. Fuck Musk and Fuck Zuckerberg and their PR/marketing bullshit.
Fuck Spez
It’ll be an anti-clockwise spinning X, with speed lines extending from the tips.
Ironic or not: Soon it will be known as “Ex-Twitter”.
X is a truly unique sign, very good choice. Very recognizable
Unlike an f
I mean, that’s stupid too. Just that it has been in existence for long enough. Maybe they will follow the simplification trend and idk remove one of the lines from the F.
Should have gone with ‘F’
‘L’ would be more fitting since that’s the only thing they’ve been taking
Not pressing F for that one.
Said farewell back last November. Fuck that fascist platform.
Amen to that.
I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion at first.
I’m not clicking on Fox and giving them ad revenue. Anyone got a mirror?
those comments 🤮
Almost enough to make me feel bad for those poor starving brainworms.
Well, it’s a good thing I switched to Wayland.
Anyone who doesn’t believe Elon is taking Twitter on purpose is a fucking moron.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I see that rule posted a lot, but imo it doesn’t really apply to people in power. Infact, trying to apply it to that context is actually dangerous… take Trump as a case study: he’s done immeasurable damage to the US and consistently skirts any kind of real consequence because we just keep giving him the village-idiot pass.
Better to assume every action and outcome are calculated and intentional when we’re talking shit like oligarchs or politicians. Even if they sincerely are just a dumbass, hold them to that same standard, as we really ought to disincentivize dumbasses from running corporations/countries/etc anyway.
Yeah it is exactly what people engaging in fraud rely on. The more money that is on the line, the less likely the heuristic works. Reddit had an obsession with popular heuristics. The whole point of one is to quickly make an assessment when you don’t have either the time or resources. It is not a proof, never has been. The other one people always bring up is Occam’s razor. All razors are heuristics, heuristics are never proof.
Although in this case the claim is that Elon is intentionally tanking twitter, which is also a ridiculous claim.
Just because he was good at buying his way in to tech companies doesn’t mean he’s smart.
Elon running Twitter is the best thing that has happened on the platform tbh
Sure… If you believe what’s best for it is a slow, miserable, yet hilarious death.
I do, and I’m tired of everyone pretending we haven’t wanted this to happen forever either. Twitter and Facebook gave the rise to celebrity worship that plagues us. Being able to follow their every waking moment like you’re a part of their circle or something has been a pox.
More importantly, a massive company never dies a “peaceful” way. There’s no “glorious death” for a corporation or entity. It’s always a train wreck of bad decisions and failed attempts to save the ship going under. They do not simply run out of money and go quietly into the night when they are a high profile brand. The nicest death a company this size can hope for is being quietly folded like taffy over and over, into other companies like AOL was.
I won’t pretend to not be enjoying the shitshow along with you, but celebrity worship has been around LLLOOONNNGGG before social media, and will continue to be so until there are fewer than 3 humans left alive on the planet.
Yeah… I pretty much agree really.
It’s entertaining to laugh at as it goes down in flames, too.
Might as well put a placeholder in for the logo. Seems like Twitter is well on it’s way towards being sold to Truth Social or some other neo-Nazi organization.
For the record, I deactivated my account yesterday. 4,000 followers over the past few years, but it was time.
Wow your so brave 🥰
*you’re 😘
