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[–] li10@feddit.uk 287 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Such a genuinely shit name.

I’m not even one of the rabid Musk haters, but it’s just an absolutely dreadful name that a 10 year old thinks is cool…

[–] TheHangedMan@feddit.uk 81 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I fully expect people to still be calling it twitter for a long time.

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 82 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Lemmylaugh@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago
[–] notapantsday@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's because it's an established brand with a huge value to it. Everyone knows twitter. Only an idiot would throw that away.

[–] G_Wash1776@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Musk has been on a roll of bad decisions since he first offered to buy Twitter lmao

[–] Decimit@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was making terrible decisions way before that.

[–] G_Wash1776@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes but Twitter is a 44 billion dollar mistake

[–] Decimit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You make a very good and very expensive point.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I call meta still facebook. fuck this rebranding bullshit to disssociate with shittyness

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Meta/Facebook and Google/Alphabet are very different from Twitter/X. The first two created parent companies under which their large brand names still exist, but are now managed along with their other properties (Instagram, ~~Snapchat~~, Waymo, Deepmind, etc.) Musk, meanwhile, is trying to completely burn down the Twitter brand for some incomprehensible reason.

[–] Supermuff@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Snapchat isn't owned by meta btw

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah just like Meta will allways be Facebook for me

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

I bet you all next he will rebrand some of his other companies as ‘S’ (SpaceX?) and ‘E’ (??) just to be CEO of SEX. This man is so extremely childish.

He already has done it for Tesla models: S, 3, X, Y

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] TheSilentOne59@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] Decimit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You just nailed Elons personality.

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