Twitter C/D

best case scenario was that people slowly forgot Elon owned the site and continued posting, this ain't exactly helping the cause

like seriously everyone knows what a Tweet is in fact like half the value of that company is how it just entered the common vernacular. you could say "did you see what LeBron James tweeted", because "tweeted" is an accepted verb. no normal person is gonna say "did you see what LeBron posted on X", in fact you can't even really refer to the app at all now without sounding like a dipshit. oh and you took one of the most recognized app logos and replaced it with something that looks like a link to a porno site. this is like Nathan For You level shit.

It'd be akin to changing "photoshop" to "picblaster3000" and insisting everyone start calling them "blasties".

oh and you can also use it to order groceries online

mods pls hatdump all future references to tweets into BLASTIES!

This would rule tbrh.

I understand Foley's critiques of the article, what I don't understand is why it's weird to see a "blue tick" issue them. (Fwiw, Foley was verified before Elon came along.)

― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Weird because 99.99% of blue ticks are insane climate deniers who wouldn't know a fact from a cat turd, is what I think xyzzzz is getting at.

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 bookmarkflaglink

What James said. My understanding is that you have to pay to keep your blue tick. Many people verified before have lost their blue tick.

Not 2025, studies suggest 2050

He also says it’s also not the Gulf-stream that may collapse, but something called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. The thread goes into details.

Without twitter we might have Blue Sky or Mastodon but there aren't enough posters.

These couple of posts by Tracey Thorn made me think that the bad Guardian Obit might have been one of the few sources of 'tribute'.

I think what's so hateful about that Guardian Sinead obit is the way it frames her whole life in negatives - "she lacked the obsessive drive needed…never had another hit…inability to edit her pronouncements...constitutionally unable to compromise…" Talk about removing agency😡

— Tracey Thorn (@tracey_thorn) July 27, 2023

if they don't use the name 'twitter' for a certain amount of time, do they lose the copyright?

Oh it's an AI lmao pic.twitter.com/eBGK2zjnpN

— Tyler Glaiel (@TylerGlaiel) July 26, 2023

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1-bcbyaYAALsO0?format=jpg&name=large

when do we change the thread title

we cant give into x

FKA Twitter

X, X, X
Alex
I'm your only friend
X, X, X
Alex
Your love will sing for you

^Melody of Certain Damaged Elons

can’t we just call it Twatter?

Amazing design - where I would normally click the top right of the embedded tweet to view on Twitter it’s now a black X that looks like I’m closing down the embed

kudos jaymc! :)

i think there's a middle ground between "he's deliberately trying to destroy it" and "he genuinely thinks these are good ideas, i.e. he is stupid". it's not that he's trying to destroy it. it's that he's trying to erase the original twitter as a cultural force while also buying a ~media property for the usual reasons rich people buy media properties.

Deleted it off my phone before the app update pushed the new icon on me

I just haven't updated it yet.

Matt Binder’s read on it is that Elon’s motives change, where some points he wants to destroy it just as a laugh, other days he wants to make it work and become his stupid dream platform.

i think he just thinks all his thoughts are good and will work so if he hates twitter and wants to destroy it thats good and will work, as will prioritizing blue checks in replies and so forth

work in the sense of being a business success

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2Lbd_2WAAAUEGv?format=jpg&name=medium

The X logo has officially been placed on the former Twitter building. pic.twitter.com/7ewawmLcJ1

— Pop Base (@PopBase) July 28, 2023

It's kind of amazing how pervasive Twitter is as a brand, and how stupid it is to abandon that. It would be like Kleenex changing its name. Like, everything from major companies and the government to local businesses use and associate with Twitter. Is, like, the TSA, or McDonald's or the flower shop down the street really expected to change all their internet and social media presence to reflect Musk's silliness? I just don't see it, and assume many or even most are either ignoring it or oblivious.

Jeez, that’s one shoddy looking thing for a global bra.

Brand :-)

we're global, bra(h)!

It’s run by a big tit, so maybe not so wrong.

Jeez, that’s one shoddy looking thing for a global bra.

looks like the propeller from a toy helicopter

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/718mHa9HoDL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

Looks like it's going to topple over in the first high wind

Well it is only an interim logo.

The alternate definition of the verb, ‘tweet’, as in, ‘to make a posting on the Twitter online message service’, is in the actual dictionary. No other social media app has anything like it. Imagine disposing of that level of brand recognition because of a mid-life crisis. https://t.co/5gcs3dOLR8

— Jools Evelyn (@joolsevelyn) July 29, 2023

meme master x

Found pic of 𝕏 landlord in San Francisco pic.twitter.com/3CKSAr9ek2

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 29, 2023

My wife, who is in advertising and marketing, thinks this name change is magnitudes stupider than HBO going Max.

So amazing how Elon doesn’t understand humor. I can’t even tell what the joke is here.

I wonder if he thinks that changing the name of the company means that the contracts with landlords and vendors are no longer valid. Tbf, this is something that has worked in other industries to hold up payouts or evade creditors, so….

lol my god

I would be fucking LIVID. Imagine this fucking X sign right across from your bedroom. #x #twitter pic.twitter.com/FH4nqcS8oy

— fuck elon musk (@itsmefrenchy123) July 29, 2023

the city is already investigating this as he appeared to not bother with a permit

^^^ oh surprise, surprise

fbi needs to raid the twitter compound

James Fallows has taken to calling it Xitter, which I assume is pronounced "shitter."

again, making the most transparent and obvious choices to tank the company. A strobe light blasting a residential building.

i dont get why everything is 5d chess explanation thing with him, we cant it be just be that musk is stupid

meme master x

He really is the most embarrassing person on the planet