Twitter is being rebranded as X
www.theverge.com
The bird site may lose its logo on Monday.

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  • figaro@lemdro.id
    42·
    2 years ago

    Was Twitter ever really a left leaning platform in the first place? It pretty much always felt like it was filled with Russian bots and maga shit.

    So I guess good job Musk for burning down a shit website? Lol

    As a side note, Mastodon is legitimately fantastic. The community there is genuinely nice.

    • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
      43·
      2 years ago

      It was left leaning until about 2014. Then it slowly crept farther and farther right wing. Slowly bleeding users who didn’t want to deal with the fascist jerks. Slowly converting fence sitters into fascist jerks by normalizing fascism by pretending it was just asking questions, just making edgy jokes, you know the drill. Next, 2016 came. That for me was when the bottom fell out of twitter. The Russian twitter bots were everywhere. And it took twitter way too long to deal with it. I think by that point, the platform was ruined. It was never going to grow meaningfully by attracting new people. It was just going to slowly decay as people looked for their friends and favorite creators on Reddit, Discord, Youtube, or wherever else they went. But that decay would have been slow until Elon tanked it. His efforts have chased off users in droves

  • Gacrux@lemm.ee
    38·
    2 years ago

    alright now we’re gonna have quite a big discussion as to what “x server” means. x11? twitter?

    “guys x servers are down!”
    “have you checked your .xinitrc? did you start x?”
    “whats an x innit racecar? the x servers are down!”
    “how do you use x without knowing what an .xinitrc is… oh”

    meanwhile reddit gonna rename themselves to “wayland”

    • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
      7·
      2 years ago

      I mean, Debian setup setting up .xinitrc for me on my computer has made me not need to know what it is. I think I should.

  • Dan_Rachevaski@beehaw.org
    35·
    2 years ago

    He got a company and a social media that is remarkable, and recognizable, and even has an action verb related to it, “tweet, to tweet, tweeting”.

    And he decided to piss on it and create the X app. Adding insult to injury is that it’s again, another techy black and white logo. Of course, because that’s the silicon valley trend isn’t it, black and white clean minimalist corporate logo, no soul, no community, just corporate all along.

    • TheYang@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 years ago

      Depends.

      If he thinks Twitter is irreperably dying, this may be a way, in which he can get out of repaying the loans he used to (partially) fund the buyout of twitter.

      • agentsquirrel@beehaw.org
        9·
        2 years ago

        If you’re thinking this an “artist formerly known as Prince” sort of thing where Prince got out of a contract, I’m sure all the debt holders have the proper legal verbiage to have agreements remain valid in the event of a name change.

        • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
          10·
          2 years ago

          The lenders lawyer arrives at the Twitter office:

          Lawyer: This is Twitter, is it?

          Musk: (with a fake mustache) No, it’s X.

            • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
              3·
              2 years ago

              That makes me think of the theory about Saudi Arabia and probably other countries have had it in for Twitter since Arab Spring.

              So this is just Elon doing as instructed: “Make Twitter disappear, but make it look like an accident”

        • TheYang@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 years ago

          depends how the loans worked.
          I was assuming his majority shares of X (ex Twitter) collateral.
          And that that he could just go “yeah, go on, collect on your collateral, I don’t mind”, because it’s not worth anything anymore.

          But admittedly I have no Idea how the contracts were drawn up, if this is possible and if his other money would be available to collect on.

      • milkjug@beehaw.org
        2·
        2 years ago

        At some point some creditor should be desperate enough to do a margin call, since the loan collateral is next to worthless.

    • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
      10·
      2 years ago

      Yeah this really makes sure Twitter will be x’ed.

      He really put afterburner on that dumpster fire.

  • JakenVeina@lemm.ee
    22·
    2 years ago

    if a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow

    Christ, imagine being on the dev team that has to make this happen in a day.

  • averyminya@beehaw.org
    20·
    2 years ago

    Space-X, X AE A-12, trying to create a company named X since the 90’s…

    guys, I think elon musk is obsessed with Speed Racers Racer X. Why else would X be such a prominent motivator for this creature?

    Any theories? Deal with the devil made at a crossroads? Or maybe he just was really used to railroad crossing signs as a kid and wants to relive those memories?

    • Squidious@lemm.eeB
      2·
      2 years ago

      X is the naughty letter (rated X) in S3XY which is also the four tesla car model letter. 12 year old humor.