Twitter is rebranding to X

[Dreamskull]

Wasnt Twitter a cesspool before Musk came along? Last I checked they were literally trying to govern everything using social media.

It was seemingly a large club with a particular bent that gave cover for its factionalism. Its influence is greatly displaced now, isnt it?

Does anyone know what all that money they got for it is being used for? It would be good to know. It certainly wasnt cheap to buy.

Edited September 29, 2023 by Dreamskull

[NoXion]

5 hours ago, Dreamskull said:

Wasnt Twitter a cesspool before Musk came along? Last I checked they were literally trying to govern everything using social media.

It was seemingly a large club with a particular bent that gave cover for its factionalism. Its influence its greatly displaced now, isnt it?

Does anyone know what all that money they got for it is being used for? It would be good to know. It certainly wasnt cheap to buy.

 

Twitter wasn't great before Musk took over. I stopped visiting Twitter for the sake of my mental health before he bought it and made it his personal fiefdom.

I haven't been back since, but from what I've seen second-hand, it is so much much worse now. Originally one of the problems with Twitter is how its very format and design encouraged thoughtless "hot takes" and other forms of bad-faith engagement between users. Even if you avoided interacting with other users, Twitter had a way of getting its hooks into you so that you'd be addicted to doomscrolling.

But now imagine all that, *plus* all sorts of nasty assholes having the complete run of the place with no real consequences. You can even post child abuse material and Lord Musk will restore your account if he likes you enough.

Edited September 29, 2023 by NoXion

[Chesspionage]

It's quite amusing that every time you see an 'X' post being used on TV at the moment the producers now write "formerly known as Twitter" immediately after it.

[Murdoch]

1 hour ago, ColonelDuff said:

It's quite amusing that every time you see an 'X' post being used on TV at the moment the producers now write "formerly known as Twitter" immediately after it.

I would just keep calling it Twitter out of spite. One of our major telecommunications providers, Telecom (creative), renamed themselves Spark nearly 10 years ago and some people still call them Telecom. Hell even I still say it sometimes and I am in IT. Name changes for big brands just do not go well.

[siliconn]

Very funny when you see "X Formerly known as Twitter" or "X/Twitter" on TV, but this isn't the first time he's tried to rename something "X"

 

If i remember exactly, him trying to rebrand PayPal to "X" was basically what got him fired from paypal.

Edited September 29, 2023 by siliconn

[RDETalus]

Look at this, amazing. Community Notes was the only good thing that happened to twitter

[Dreamskull]

I saw that just 3 days back! I highly recommend you go check it out.

 

 

[Major Arlene]

The same lawyer who destroyed Alex Jones in court is bringing a lawsuit against Elon Musk.

https://x.com/BankstonAtLaw/status/1708859836610290106?s=20

[Murdoch]

5 hours ago, Major Arlene said:

The same lawyer who destroyed Alex Jones in court is bringing a lawsuit against Elon Musk.

https://x.com/BankstonAtLaw/status/1708859836610290106?s=20

 

"Man this hole I am in sure is cozy. It could be a little bit deeper though." -- Elon Musk, apparently.

[DogsRNice]

Speaking of lawsuits 

 

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/2/23900434/x-lawsuit-trademark-unfair-competition-elon-musk-twitter-florida

[PsychEyeball]

On 10/2/2023 at 2:16 PM, Major Arlene said:

The same lawyer who destroyed Alex Jones in court is bringing a lawsuit against Elon Musk.

https://x.com/BankstonAtLaw/status/1708859836610290106?s=20

This is the first time I ever find myself rooting for a lawyer to do well.

[Major Arlene]

10 hours ago, PsychEyeball said:

This is the first time I ever find myself rooting for a lawyer to do well.

from all accounts he's a really good dude. I don't know if he'll get as lucky as the Alex Jones case (basically Alex's lawyers just gave him the whole 2 years worth of data on Alex's cell phone and just didn't claw it back) but maybe Elon's lawyers will be just as stupid, it's not out of the realm of possibility

[Betelgeuse]

How can you replace one of the most recognizable logos to a letter.

[Murdoch]

21 hours ago, PsychEyeball said:

This is the first time I ever find myself rooting for a lawyer to do well.

 

Lawyers are people. And like people, some are amoral assholes, and some are good people who do things like go after corporations doing shady shit.

[Grazza]

10 hours ago, Major Arlene said:

maybe Elon's lawyers will be just as stupid, it's not out of the realm of possibility

Even if his lawyers are good, there is a fair chance their case will be torpedoed by having an immature traitor as their client.

[Biodegradable]

Change of plans: Let's make everyone pay for Twitter now!

 

[RDETalus]

Guess I was wrong. At least it’s starting off as an experiment 

[Mr. Freeze]

Wonder how the "ha ha libs! Elon is gonna legalize comedy!" brigade is handling this one. 

[Gez]

1 hour ago, Mr. Freeze said:

Wonder how the "ha ha libs! Elon is gonna legalize comedy!" brigade is handling this one. 

They'll double down on calling him a genius, because it's basically a cult at this point.

 

 

[mrthejoshmon]

Ah yes, a minimum subscription service, "to fight spam" you say?

 

Does spam mean "anyone not paying you" by chance?

 

Really makes you think, except it doesn't because it's Twitter.

 

There is no thinking involved.

Edited October 18, 2023 by mrthejoshmon

[OniriA]

Oh the classic "Fuck you, pay me" thing.

 

Everytime I read about this twitter/x thing, I get thankful for not having ever used twitter.

Edited October 18, 2023 by OniriA

[Lila Feuer]

Moved to Tumblr for the first time nearly two years ago when it stopped being an overly sensitive censorship bitch and haven't regretted it. I used twatter from August 2016 to 2021 and then started to sharply fall off last year and now I've essentially abandoned mine. I really only used it for the art and memes and nsfw content, but you can get most of that on Tumblr and it seems to be the norm as opposed to bullshit discourse, and I unfollowed literally half my follows on twatter when I realized I could just look at their stuff unimpeded on pixiv, a site I already use extensively so that solves most if not all of my artist issues.

Screw musky with a sandbox tree.

[Murdoch]

8 hours ago, Biodegradable said:

Change of plans: Let's make everyone pay for Twitter now!

 

This made me think of an old Billy Connolly joke, which I will shamelessly steal: I suspect this will be about as well received as a fart in a spacesuit.

[BonJoviStatue]

You know, everything up to this point has reminded me of this video:

 

[Kwisior]

This seems like a compromise. Probably will not be very effective (the $1 thing I mean).

Edited October 19, 2023 by Kwisior

[bobstremglav]

I wanted to send shitpost meme for this situation, but doomworld didn't allowed me :(

Spoiler

Basically, it was icons of apps, arranged like this

G A Y

S E

 

As you understood, only twitter rebranding to X could finish this beast...

 

Edited October 19, 2023 by bobstremglav

[Lila Feuer]

@bobstremglav

Spoiler

 

X

Videos

 

 

[aloysiusfreeman]

I finally deleted the Twitter app, along with the Instagram app. My connection to anything social online is now a discord group with some friends, Substack, and Doomworld. 

 

Here's to hopefully loving myself more than hating myself

[Gothic]

Didn't the Simpsons had an episode with Lisa praising Musk? And didn't Rick & Morty as well?

[NoXion]

1 minute ago, Gothic said:

Didn't the Simpsons had an episode with Lisa praising Musk? And didn't Rick & Morty as well?

 

I wonder if those episodes were made before Musk libelled that diver as a "pedo guy". On reflection that incident seems to have been a turning point in his general reputation.