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Twitter is now X (www.twitter.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Synecdoche@feddit.de to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago (30 children)

Rebranding was so urgent that he didn't wait for a finished logo? I have to admit, I'm baffled. With his other changes I can at least imagine a thought process behind it, this one seems to be something he just woke up and decided to do all of a sudden.

[–] TofuScramble@beehaw.org 33 points 1 year ago (24 children)

It becomes a lot easier to understand when you remember that he might just be kinda stupid :)

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (23 children)

He's not, though. He's had plenty of successful companies that have done some pretty amazing things, and he's become a multi-hundred-billionaire starting from a relatively extremely small amount of seed funding.

I suspect that his successes in other fields may have led him to think he would be just as good at running a social media company, which isn't going so well for him.

[–] TofuScramble@beehaw.org 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • Offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion
  • Try to back out when Twitter says "ok lol"
  • Get forced to complete the purchase
  • Saddle Twitter with the debt you now have as a result of buying Twitter
  • Invite all the previously-banned bigots and hatemongers back on the site
  • Make your staff's lives hell, including bullshit 'performance' stuff like checking how many lines-of-code they write, so most of them are either fired or leave on their own
  • Raise API prices sky-high, get ridiculed
  • Lock everything behind user log-in, logged-out users can't see anything
  • Rate-limit how many things logged-in users can do
  • Break widgets
  • Was once the public square of the internet, now weather services are moving to Mastodon
  • "why are we still losing money >:("
  • Initiate a half-assed rebrand to "X" but the logo, 𝕏, is literally just a mathematical symbol. Who needs copyright on your billion dollar company's brand identity, eh?

Whoa, be careful everyone, these are the slick moves of a master genius!

It's entirely possible that he was smart, I'm sure he was to an extent, but I believe that Space X and Tesla have better structures in places for managing/limiting Musk's direct influence, and I also believe that, like many of the super rich, he's succumbed to a form of right-wing brain rot over the years. His brain is now smooth and toxic.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I literally said in the comment that you're responding to that Musk isn't good at running Twitter.

[–] TofuScramble@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a little worse than 'not going well', is my point.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's not my point. I said that Musk had done well with his other non-Twitter companies and you responded "but look at how terrible he is at running Twitter!"

[–] TofuScramble@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Don’t forget this bit:

“It's entirely possible that he was smart, I'm sure he was to an extent, but I believe that Space X and Tesla have better structures in places for managing/limiting Musk's direct influence, and I also believe that, like many of the super rich, he's succumbed to a form of right-wing brain rot over the years. His brain is now smooth and toxic.”

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