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[-] Vaggumon@midwest.social 147 points 2 years ago

Twitter: The company owned by a transphobe, that changed it's outside image and wants people to call it by a different name.

[-] ken27238@lemmy.ml 83 points 2 years ago

arguably the worse rebranding ever. the only thing that has changed is the logo and Elon saying "were not Twitter we're now X". Twitter branding is still all over twitter.com, it still called tweets, retweets. Hell, the terms of service are even using both twitter and X Corp.

[-] glacier 68 points 2 years ago

How can a Twitter be an X? it was born a biological bird, not a letter

[-] gsfraley@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

Not to mention it's still on twitter.com, and changing it to another domain is a borderline impossible amount of work to do for any social media site that size.

[-] ken27238@lemmy.ml 59 points 2 years ago

I'm waiting for Elon to get rid of the twitter.com domain and forgetting to renew it, and someone swooping in and getting it. Because that's something that would totally happen with his track record.

[-] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 years ago

That would be hilarious! Even better if it redirected to a Lemmy instance.

[-] wallmenis@lemmy.one 30 points 2 years ago

Maybe a mastodon instance will be more apropriate

[-] Bipta@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

There's a 30 day grace period on renewals before someone else can pick them up. I doubt even Elon is that dumb.

[-] Hubi@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago

It happened to google.com before, so I definitely wouldn't put it past Elon or the skeleton crew keeping Twitter alive.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/29/10868404/google-reveals-how-much-it-paid-the-guy-who-bought-google-com

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hotmail back in the day as well.

[-] Vaggumon@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

You underestimate his power.

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I doubt even Elon is that dumb.

RemindMe! 8 hours

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Adding to my TODO list. Thanks for the great idea! I may own Twitter soon, which means I'll be filthy rich. Noice!

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

I just read an article saying Musk has bought xvideos.com. It didn’t say, but I’m guessing he means to turn it into something like YouTube. If so, that’s hilariously misguided.

The man is a joke. As a designer who has done a fair amount of branding work, this is the dumbest rebranding attempt I’ve ever seen. I’ve dealt with some stubbornly clueless clients who had to be talked out of driving their brand off a cliff, but this is next level.

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

Musk buying xvideos is a meme, not a thing that happened, last I checked.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh shit, that’s hilarious, too. Someone must have taken it seriously, because the article made my news feed with no mention of it being a meme. He’s such a joke, that’s apparently plausible. I bought it, lol.

e: thanks for the correction!

[-] Dalinar@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago

There's a lot of bots that scrape comment sections to create shitty news articles.

[-] hyorvenn@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Redirecting twitter.com to another domain is not an impossible amount of work. What takes time is changing every references to the old domain name.

[-] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[-] Mane25@feddit.uk 20 points 2 years ago

Crappy version of Mastodon.

[-] lightsecond@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago

It used to be this social media site where you could write these notes that were short enough for blue birds to carry around to everyone.

[-] Ibex@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

It used to be this place where people would post funny stories or how to make crack in a microwave. Now it’s all politics and sexuality talk.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

And bigotry. Don’t forget the bigotry.

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 41 points 2 years ago

given how many ‘Twitter alternative’ services like Threads and Bluesky are cropping up

I wish they would mention Mastodon lol

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 46 points 2 years ago

Mastodon isn't likely to buy advertising space on the verge.

[-] Tigbitties@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

Dingdingding

[-] harpuajim@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 years ago

Dude is setting $40b on fire right in front of our eyes.

[-] AnonTwo@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago

He set most of it on fire the moment he purchased it, since it wasn't even really worth that.

[-] Marxine@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago

Ruining a global social media platform, the speedrun

[-] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of a quote from Suits, something along the lines of "I'm not blackmailing you, I'm extorting you."

[-] Tigbitties@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

"Goad"? Shit's straight up extortion.

[-] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Twitter is a bully.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

"Give us $6000 or we'll let counterfeiters impersonate you."

Sincerely, X

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