That fucker has been holding onto his original website “X .com” since before PayPal days.
He just finally figured out how he can get people to visit the site, he wants to prove to himself he wasn’t wrong to hold it so long.
What an absolute Xloser.
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He wasn’t wrong without this change. Single letter domains are rare and worth quite some money.
Name some popular single-letter domain sites.
To be fair, this is how people tend to react to change, generally. I remember every time Facebook or YouTube did a site redesign in the early 2010s people were always up in arms.
Jake and Amir parodied this well in their “Facebook Redesign” episode.
Same goes for the Reddit redesign. People have been up in arms about new Reddit ever since it’s been introduced.
I’m pretty sure they’d be much less up in arms if the new version didn’t suck as much as it does, though. Same probably holds true for the redesigns that were introduced for Youtube and Facebook.
Most people have knee-jerk reactions to site redesigns, and then begrudgingly accept it sometime after.
The reddit redesign is different, in that most power users, mods, and long-time redditors are still using old.reddit 5+ years later.
That’s not an entirely valid comparison in that the other platforms that got redesigned don’t give the end-user the option to still use the old design. Chances are that if they did, a lot of people would stick to the old design there as well.
The Reddit redesign is so bad, they themselves recommend using their app!
That’s by design. It’s in Reddits bestinterest to drive usage towards their invasive app.
I know that. That’s why people complain about it.
I’ve also works on countless of Ecommerce sites and every time we needed to rebrand or redesign something we would do it in many small iterations as major changes would always get blow backs
Yeah I left yahoo when they changed their design. Never went back. Though rebranding Twitter seems a waste of money. He paid 44 billionm, a lot of it for the brand.
He paid for a platform and a brand. Immediately guts the platform’s staff and begins removing features. Loses half its advertising revenue. Then throws out the brand. Probably cuts revenue in half again.
What would you do with $44 billion?
What else can you expect, when those site redesigns are usually driven by the desire for increased ad revenue. Even idiots who don’t know why, will know it somehow sucks more than it used to. Other times it’s just a blatant removal of loved features. Funny skit aside, the simpler explanation is enshittification.
Musk says he’s unbothered by the criticism. “Frankly, I love the negative feedback on this platform,” he tweeted on July 22. “Vastly preferable to some sniffy censorship bureau!”
What
What censorship bureau is he talking about? A purely theoretical one (where is that coming from?) or one he’s actually had to deal with in the past?
And of course griping, powerless plebs are better than a “censorship bureau” that can presumably force you to do or not do things by penalty of law 🙄 tell me you’re rich and powerful without telling me you’re rich and powerful.
I would say “humiliation kink confirmed?” but this is just a guy enjoying being able to do things that other people don’t like, with no one to stop him.
It’s like New Coke, but even dumber.
Had X arrived the same time as Twitter. Twitter would have won. Who the *uck wants to send an X?
Who the *uck wants to send an X?
douchebag edgelords who use the ‘X’ as a dog whistle for a swastika
ya, know, people like musk
Wait is that really a thing? They’ve already ruined my favorite number (8) and now my favorite letter too? Fucking nazis. >:(
I just did some Googling and I can’t find any evidence supporting it. Closest I’ve found is this forum post where someone has apparently confused the Wehrmacht’s iron cross logo for an “X”.
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Musk says he’s unbothered by the criticism. “Frankly, I love the negative feedback on this platform,” he tweeted on July 22. “Vastly preferable to some sniffy censorship bureau!”
Holy shit he’s unhinged. Not that that’s any news…
How did you like the criticism on your standup “comedy” performance, Elon? Or were that sock puppets by the deep state to hinder your free speech?
That was fun
Frankly, I love the negative feedback on this platform,” he tweeted on July 22. “Vastly preferable to some sniffy censorship bureau!”
Like he doesn’t actively silence people on his platform lmao.
Funnily enough, I tried using the phrase “right-wing media” in a reply to a tweet today and it wouldn’t go through.
No error, nothing, just refused to submit. Tried a couple of times, no go.
Rephrased it and it magically went through.
It looks kind of similar to Xorg’s logo to me.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/X.Org_Logo.svg/1279px-X.Org_Logo.svg.png
I mean, his is embosssed, but if I were choosing a logo for my new brand “x.com”, I don’t think I’d choose something that looks a lot like x.org’s logo.
It’s worse, unicode already has the “𝕏” character for the past 22 years:
Oh, that’s also a thought. IIRC Intel tried trademarking the letter “i” at one point and the USPTO wouisn’t allow it, so I dunno if a single-character trademark is considered distinctive enough. Xorg’s has more stuff to it than just the base letter.
Okay, so let’s go down the list. Musk has bought Twitter so he could:
- Suspend the user that was tracking his plane
- “Own the libs”, I mean, he’s definitely a republicunt
- Run out all of the news outlets he deemed not trustworthy
- Unban the orange monkey
- Now rebrand Twitter as a letter because he couldn’t let go of an era that was far, far better off without his existence
Reject Twitter, join the Fediverse!
Literally the only thing keeping me on Twitter is that I want notifications from my sports team, as well as the local sports reporter who covers them. I used to be able to have their tweets come through an RSS reader, but since Elon’s nuking of API access that no longer works :(
On mastodon, someone created a bot that can mirror anyone’s tweets. Just take their Twitter handle and append “@bird.makeup”. There’s a little jank, but it made the switch a lot easier for me.
There’s another one that does specific sports-related accounts under sportsbots.xyz and works very well.
One does not cancel the another. I’m here and I’m there.
What’s the quote for Jurassic Park…oh yeah.
“They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
TAFKAT The App Formerly Known As Twitter
I’m sure he will be receptive to the input of his users
It’s his company. He can do what he wants. Please let that sink in.
Sorta, but people didn’t originally sign up for his company. People joined and set up channels of communication and outlets of information on a platform that got bought out and rapidly changed in unexpected ways.
I can buy the Oreo brand and only sell toothpaste-flavored Oreos and I think people would rightfully be pissed off. The first buyers would get a nasty surprise. Competitors would take off over time, but the nostalgia and attachment to the original product would still be there. “Remember Oreos before they fuxkin’ sucked?”
There are still apparently some rabid Hydrox fans around.
Has anyone said otherwise? He can do what he wants, but people can’t react to it?
There’s a not insignificant chance that it’ll be the secured creditors’ company soon 😂
The selective reasoning here amazes me to no end. It’s always Twitter bad, Elon bad, but nobody seems to care about the giant government-circlejerk (or reacharound if you prefer that image) that was uncovered via the Twitter files after Elon Musk took over.
So it’s okay to censor and lie doing the government’s bidding, sometimes even preemptively, but it’s not okay to rebrand your company after all this massive pile of shit was uncovered?
Just LOL
The “massive pile of shit” was Taibbi and Musk releasing curated documents that farm reactionary grievance.
And guess what? It was a garbage platform even before that. Like many others, it has a long history of amplifying conservative disinformation for ad revenue (hey, just like the “Twitter files” bullshit).
And you fell for it. Congrats.
So what do you call it now that Musk censors at the request of authoritarian governments?
I’m gonna guess it’s a “Delicious Boot to Lick.”
There was nothing of substance in the twitter files you gaslit gobshite.
People have replied to you with unequivocal facts. What’s your take now? How selective is your reasoning?
I don’t know what Sivar is talking about, but I’m not seeing any “unequivocal facts” in the responses. Nothing is even backed up by references.
