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man i hope he buys reddit and runs it into the ground. he seems to be really good at tearing down social media companies.
Do whatsapp next! Please!!
Keep dreaming friend, I’ll be there right alongside you with my Facebook dream.
The guy running Reddit seems to be doing a good job of tearing down himself.
what a fucking moron
Hmm, black and white design. Seems coincidentally appropriate. Though if he adds some red in there he’ll have enough justification to have his employees wear uniforms designed by Hugo Boss.
So let me get this straight. Musk bought Twitter for 44 billion, fired most of the staff, destroyed bunch of features and functionality, scared advertisers away and now changed the brand’s name. Wouldn’t it be less hassle to just start a platform and pay people $100 each as a sign up bonus?
That’s absurd! Assuming 4 billion in actual startup costs, at the purchase price they could only afford to do that for…
four hundred million people. LOL.
Jesus this was a dumb transaction.
Damn, this comment thread was a level of enlightenment I was not expecting this morning 🤯
Just for perspective, the U.S. population is 300 million. Add on the 67 million population of the UK and you still have plenty of change left over.
Jesus, this was a stupid decision.
Yup. Four hundred million is more than the entire daily userbase of twitter.
Copying my comment from another thread:
But they’re not just re-branding. Twitter is now under some kind of corporate shell company. I haven’t seen much coverage of that, but my suspicion is that it’s intended to act as some kind of insulator to contain Twitter’s debts.
Like when they break a company into pieces and put everyone’s debts and no assets into a single part and then that part declares bankruptcy and all the debt magically goes away, leaving everything else with lots of assets and no debts and a future that looks really rosy. I can’t help but think that this is something similar to that.
There are currently ~366 million Twitter users.
If Musk paid each person $100 to start using “X” instead, he’d spend $36.6 billion, leaving him with $7.4 billion to actually build the rest of the website and infrastructure.
Yup, he’s stupid.
He could also pay his rent and other bills.
X Not Gon’ Give It To Ya
It’s not that weird, it’s how TTLs work.
When your computer wants to know what server
x.comis, it (oversimplifying a bit) asks its own internal DNS (Domain Name System) resolver, which asks your router’s resolver, which asks your ISP’s resolver, and so on, until an authoritative resolver is found.Each of those resolvers, before asking the next one, has its own memory it can reference just in case it gets asked about the same address very often, because asking can be costly in terms of time (because you have to ask the next server for the answer OR because so many different request are coming in that it’s difficult to answer all of them). This memory is called a cache, and everything stored in that cache is given a Time To Live (TTL).
When a resolver that knows the answer to “what server is
x.com?” is found, it gives not only the answer, but also a guess at how long that answer is valid. That guess is the TTL for the next server’s cache. This number is controlled by the owner ofx.com.What all this means is
- If you expect that
x.comshould always resolve to the same server, the TTL should be very long (because you want the resolution to be served from the cache, meaning it’s faster) - If you expect that
x.comwill change in the near future you want the TTL to be very short (because you want resolutions to reach your authoritative server and get the new server address)
And what THAT means, relative to this particular bit of current events, is that somebody fucked up. If this change was well-planned, then the TTLs would’ve been shortened in advance of the server switch, giving time for the downstream resolvers to clear their caches.
But that didn’t happen, which means that when your device asks “what server is
x.com?”, it sometimes gets the answer from the authoritative server (updated correctly to point to Twitter) and sometimes it gets the answer from a cache (pointed at who knows what).Basically, Elon once again rushed some shit through and sure enough it’s a fiasco.
- If you expect that
Lmao the favicon is still a bird
The middle X is a nice reminder to press either the left X or top-right X and make it all go away.
Elongated Muskrat continues to deliver on the endless entertainment.
You’ll remember that name, because the moment the site appears, you’ll click the little X on the top right corner of your computer screen to get rid of it.
This is why executives shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions
Don’t you mean X-ecutives?!
Their workers will rise up and x-ecute them for their misdeeds
Thank you, Elon, absolutely genius business decision! I was really put off using a website with a highly recognisable and long lived brand, finally this solves the biggest issue I’ve had with Twitter since the takeover. It was such a huge issue before that it eclipsed everything else, I don’t even think there are any other glaring issues. Can’t wait to log back into Twitter now after this! Oh shit I mean … X or whatever.
Eggs, Eggs, Eggs, EggsEggs.
“We’re expect folks will go along and stop referring to ‘tweeting’ and go with the more brand appropriate term of ‘x-creting’ from now on.” Musk said before adding, "‘X-cretions’ and ‘x-creted’ are encouraged too.
Does that make the people on X x-crements?
I mean…
Why not just go ahead and call it X-crement?
The fact that I don’t know if this is real or a joke tells you how ridiculous Musk has become.
idk if you came up with this but I expect to see this joke a bunch more in the coming days lol
I can’t imagine that others haven’t had the same thought, but I had not seen anything previously. It’s low hanging fruit, but you take what you can get!
This seems like it’s a ploy just to get attention and traffic. Seems that it’s working as I’m seeing it in all the news sites.
Maybe. I mean they got a page load from me just to see if x.com would redirect. IDK if that’s the desired effect though.
They just killed many years of brand loyalty IMO.
Good, now shut it down. One step closer!
This is wild, a significant percentage of Twitter’s value was its brand, and this guy has just slapped an X on it and changed the colour scheme to dark mode. Do people actually still use Twitter?
It’s pronounced “ten” right?
