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Mmmm yes. Can’t wait to X about this!
That’s cool and edgy
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I just don’t understand
Ffs
Yes change the name and iconic logo of a huge corporation, that will go over great.
If he hadn’t demonstrated his incompetence earlier I’d think it was intentional.
I still think there’s a bit of intent to destroy the company but it’s kinda hard to tell.
I saw this article posted in another thread and it seems to explain a lot. Not sure how close it is to reality, but it looks like nostalgia is at least a partial reason for this change.
Yep. Fucking nostalgia.
It makes a lot of sense!
To err is human, repeat the mistake is foolish
Thx for sharing the article!
MAX
There’s a woman over on Mastodon making the argument that he’s trying to destroy it so it can’t be used to organize left-leaning political action (fundraising, activism, issue messaging, etc) any longer. She makes a compelling argument.
I unironically believe this conspiracy theory
I’ve been saying the same thing in multiple Lemmy posts and on Mastodon. Twitter and Reddit were both used by progressives to organize.
where’s the link
Sure, make me go look it up. @[email protected] or @[email protected].
I don’t buy that. He tried to cancel the purchase. He’s also losing money, and so it’s definitely not a 3D chess.
Didn’t Twitter almost take him to court if he didn’t follow through with the purchase? I think he got caught in his over investment in Twitter last year, and rather than go through a trial with discovery (I think he NEEDED to follow through to avoid this specifically), he decided to go through with the purchase. I wonder what the hell they would have found during a trial discovery that made him sink $44B.
But what he’s doing now? I don’t think it’s related to that. I think it might be to help manipulate stocks, as we have seen him do several months back. Maybe he thinks that destroying left-leaning political action saves him in taxes? He destroyed public transportation in California just so people would theoretically purchase more Tesla cars. Nothing is beyond being trampled by Musk if he thinks he can benefit by stumbling over the other side of the corpse.
Didn’t Twitter almost take him to court if he didn’t follow through with the purchase?
On “behalf” of Twitter. What a fucking clown.
Yeah, he was way too cavalier with the documents he signed while negotiation with Twitter. It would have cost him $1Billion to back out. But that is a bargain compared to what he had to do to come up with the $44B he paid for Twitter.
Not only that, it would have been easier and cheaper to just shut the whole thing down after taking ownership. His very public (mainly by his own tweeting) stewardship of Twitter is damaging to his reputation, and the reputation of his other businesses. The reality is, he just is that dumb.
His net worth has only gone up since he bought it, iirc. Tesla will continue to print money at least for a little while until other automakers catch up on EVs. SpaceX doesn’t seem to have any viable competitors, and both sides of the aisle agree on privatizing space, so that’s a big growth industry. This is the unfortunate fact of capitalism in general and late-stage capitalism in particular.
His net worth has only gone up since he bought it, iirc
It absolutely didn’t. His net worth dropped over 50% in the months following the purchase. It’s back up above $200b at this point according to Forbes, but he’s still down from his pre-purchase state.
Narcissism
If he’d just shut it down, he probably would have been personally liable for Twitter’s debt, because he didn’t even try.
I mean it can be all of the above. Musk isn’t very coherent.
He’s the consummate failson. Rich enough that he’ll never actually experience any tangible negativity from his various ventures, if he has a skill, it’s in self-publicity and (historically) throwing money at ventures that are already on an upward trajectory.
But I feel that all the cocaine and being surrounded by Yes Men have led to him tipping over the edge.
I’d believe it if I hadn’t already heard of Musk being the type to fire workers in his line of sight at pure random simply to fire someone. It apparently got so bad that aids would plan the route he would take to the meetings around having as few victims as possible out in the open.
It would be a smart move for anyone, and he is succeeding to a good extent (they’ll just go elsewhere?), but I think that’s just a happy accident of his. I feel like he’s really just using it as a chew toy so he can feel all big and important with the headlines. If he were being journalistically gray rocked, I wonder what he’d do.
What the fuck.
The issue with that argument is… Why? He is a business man, activism generally doesn’t effect him, tesla cars are generally liked by left leaning middle class, why would he spend so much money to destroy something?
Perhaps capital wasn’t scared of tesla-buyers.
One factor is his obsession with crypto and Blockchain shit. Left-wing activism generally stands against that stuff because of the environmental impact. Additionally, right-wing political movements recently have been lowering safety standards in business. Bad for the worker, but great for the bottom line.
His ex-wife did ask him to buy and kill Twitter:
“Can you buy Twitter and then delete it, please!? xx” Riley allegedly texted Musk on March 24. “America is going INSANE.”
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Is Tallulah Riley right wing? Wow.
If your goal is to reduce cost why would you waste money doing a rebrand… so dumb
I believe his main goal is turning Twitter into something of an “everything” site where he’s looking to combine the likes of Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Discord, and Venmo/Paypal into a single service. I don’t know if it was his goal when he bought it or if it has any chance in hell of working, but that’s something he at least said (while probably drunk) fairly recently.
He has had this dream of an everything app for a very long time. I feel like he is trying to realize it now.
He should take a page of LINE app if he wants an everything app
This reminds me of when snapchat tried to entire the mobile cash industry with they snapchat pay service.
so Twitter was vi then he turned it into edlin and now he wants it to be emacs.
My first thought was an all-in-one “life subscription,” kinda like how you can buy those iPhone + Apple One packages, but with Tesla (I don’t know if Tesla has subscriptions to them – but I’m sure they do), Twitter Blue, and Starlink. It’s pretty dystopian and hecka freaky.
He also did $20k payouts to some of the worst Twitter users.
Yeah I saw that and cringed. Why would you give Andrew Tate money. It removes all plausible deniablity and proves that you want people like him posting on your platform.
Exactly. That is quite specifically what he wants.
That is a stupid name
It’ll be a nightmare to search
Gonna name my company “😃”
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It’s Twitter but for thrash metal bands.
There’s a band I heard of called “:(“ and I’ve never been able to find it since
There’s a Japanese youtube channel that makes music under a blank name with blank titles. Thankfully you can google “blank japanese youtube channel” and it shows up lol
Heh, there’s also a Japanese band that used to be called…X
Wow, thanks! I’m not sure this is even them but it’s a band called :( so I’ll take it!
At least he didn’t name it something that’s a generic name for a concept that exists on almost all social media sites like… I don’t know, “threads”
More interesting than a single letter
Was not expecting Peep Show when clicking that link. Great show!
I’m opening up a rival called “social media.” Already, we’re on everyone’s lips, set to have a userbase spanning half the web.
The artist formerly known as Twitter
The hacker known as 4chan
I think they should go with 💩Shitter - it’s where most people use it anyway.
You have my vote ;P
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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How did I miss this?! S17E1, tonight’s HW assignment. Thank you!
'Cos it marks the spot where he buried all his treasure, amirite?
I don’t know about ALL his treasure, but he definitely buried 35 billion dollars in there. Never to be seen again.
if they change it i will leave the next day
Why are you even there still? Mastadon has been a solid alternative for me for a while now.
im on mastodon too mabye i should put up a post of if i should leave twitter or not
Absolutely nobody I know is on Mastodon, and despite my efforts, they won’t move because it’s “scary” or “bad” or some bizarre shit.
Yes, I’m frustrated.
I met a bunch of new people on mastodon. Sometimes you gotta. :(
Why tf are you still there lol. Were all the other terrible changes not enough?
i am leaving now pretty much
Same shit sandwich, new brand
I am pronouncing it “ex” as in ex-wife.
I thought that was already the name of Musk’s child?!?
EnXittification happening. Let’s hope the rest of the users finds their way to fediverse.
Some of them are just too far invested to see the light. It’s actually pretty sad to see twitter addicts fail to migrate to any of the plethora of alternatives.
Hell no. If there is one thing I learned from moving over to fediverse, it’s that people are what make the site enjoyable or frustrating. As it is now, I enjoy the userbase here and on Mastodon, and the last thing I would want is for the most insufferable of Twitter users to come and ruin it. I’m happy most people who are quitting Twitter are joining the other alternatives. I would rather people join the fediverse as a more deliberate choice based on what we offer.
no.
So. The button you should press if you accidentally open Twitter on your PC.
Twitter rebranding to Alt-F4
There’s already an unofficial factorio blog called alt-f4
There’s also a game
RIP his SEO. I know it’s part of his goal for an “everything” app. But, this name is just terrible and is going to be a nightmare to look up. Not to mention how much history will refer to Twitter and not a single letter.
