I don’t use it, but i’ll forever call it Twitter.
Hey, good news, Elon. Most of us have gone from calling it “twitter” to calling it “that facist shithole that used to be twitter”.
Good job wasting 43 BILLION dollars only to see it’s traffic literally cut in half, you micro-penised shitstain on society. You will not be remembered as the genius your group of ass kissers tell you you are. You’ll be remembered as being dumber than a one brain celled orange tabby.
You’re being optimistic. He won’t be remembered at all.
All the biggest disasters are remembered.
And it’s now less than one year salary because greed.
…who’s salary? I don’t make anywhere close to 43 billion a year. What job do YOU have???
They’re talking about Musk’s income…
That’s giving him too much credit, orange cats are just dumb not evil. He sucks the life of of people, encourages the spread of disease and death. He’s a mosquito. Just an annoying, insignificant bug that will only be remembered for the discomfort he caused.
I thought we always called it “radical shithole”. Not much changed. It’s just SJWs making indie gamedevs suicide were replaced with Christians making everyone else suicide.
God I hate the pedo hunts, like yeah even if they find real freaks… The fact that so many who weren’t guilty had their lives ruined and in some cases ended over bullshit accusations is offensive, especially since evidence collected in an illicit manner is not admissible in court. Prosecutors call it “Fruit from the Forbidden Tree”
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Well he did take a fairly neutral platform used to spread ideas and form movements and destroy it. So I’m sure the right and the rich are happy about that.
They are. This is the equivalent of a 19th century steel tycoon buying up newspapers all across the country. It’s an investment.
Nag, I just call it shitter when I’m bored of “Twitter”.
X is still such a stupid fucking name. I feel cringe saying that.
I won’t. It will always be twitter, and he bought it because people made fun of him.
He offered to buy it as a joke, and was forced to finish the transaction because he had taken it too far by actually signing contracts and putting money down. He was gonna go “Just kidding” and pull out, but then the courts told him that this already constituted a legally binding sell and if he tried to back out now he’d go to jail for fraud.
That sounds like the courts are fucking stupid and ill-prepared to do their jobs.
As long as twitter.com redirects there, it’s twitter 👐
agreed, this is how i think of it
It’s very “hacking, trenchcoats, and Muse are cool” isn’t it?
Like, yeah. Obviously this guy thought of it…
What did Muse do to deserve this?
I want to know but am afraid to search for it… I liked Muse but havent lept up with their recent works.
Other than Matthew banging all the models and the bassist getting help for alcoholism, I don’t know of any other news, other than they are fuckin rad!
I always just hear it referred to as xorg, which I pronounce “x-org”
I like saying it like “zorg”
Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg
“The ever efficient flamethrower. My favorite.”
Zorg-rush
I pronounce it “the 2nd best windowing system currently used by GNU/Linux users”
I always pronounce the dot.
Its almost funnier to see every news publication constantly refer to it as “X (formerly known as Twitter”), the constant need to remind people of how stupid the decision was it amusing
I prefer “Twitter (temporarily known as X)”
That would imply he or someone else will change the name back to Twitter
or it’ll close down
If it closed down, then it would close down as X
so it would still be temporary, is the joke. It’s just a pune or play on words
It was also temporarily called Twitter though
And we’d still call what it was “Twitter”.
That’s the joke.
I fully expect him to sell it before long and the new buyer will change it straight back again.
Ex Twitter
He looks high as giraffe pussy in that picture.
…ya know, I’m 40 years old, and up until this point in my life I’ve never once considered what a giraffe pussy looks like…and my brain isn’t capable of doing so. Maybe that’s a good thing.
They got a zoo in your town?
I don’t think I like where this is going…
… To the zoo?
Yeah it’s way too hot for a zoo trip. 🫠
It’s giraffe pussy, why do you think that’s hot?
Any hole is a goal.
They kick you out if you get too close to the animals genitals :(
It got bad enough they had to put up signs
Binoculars, buddy.
Ask and you shall receive:
NSFW, but not pornographic
Click here for a non-sexualized video of the birth of a baby giraffe. It’s pretty high!
Did she prolapse or is the baby just wearing the amniotic sac? Jesus, birthing hooves seems unpleasant
I’m not going to watch the video, are giraffe babies born with fairy fingers like horses?
I’m very grossed out after looking it up, but I can’t tell and I don’t want to watch it again, tbh.
black lips to match the tongue
Joe Rogan, is that you?
Maybe he should buy Alphabet and rename their search engine.
Ooh or he could buy out Kleenex and rename that.
What the fuck would make someone throw out the name Twitter? It wasn’t a bad name. It wasn’t like…Phillip Morris or something.
“wasn’t a bad name” is the understatement of the year. it was one of the most successful brand names ever. normal people with functioning brains would kill to have a brand that’s so ingrained in the language, especially without the threat of genericizing the trademark.
xerox didn’t want people to use xerox as a generic verb to mean photocopy, or kleenex the same for a generic tissue.
but Twitter was never used to mean another social media site, and tweeting never means posting on Facebook or Tumblr or whatever. a tweet is specifically a post on Twitter. that’s the perfect brand.
Is this just a really bad business deal followed by absurdly poor leadership, but very visible?
Did Elon make it obvious he had a completely different vision for twitter when he talked about buying it?
no, but he was always chasing that “everything app”, some Chinese apps are like that and are probably insanely profitable so of course he wanted to do it himself for the US.
after he was forced to buy Twitter for a ridiculously high price reserved only for the most idiotic and/or insane of all people, he probably “thought” (a generous metaphor i use to describe the activity inside his cromagnon skull) that he might as well just do that with Twitter and hope it eventually makes enough money to make up for the worst high profile business decision in recent memory. that’s why he’s pushed for more functionalities like making Twitter a video platform, and doing meetups or whatever they’re called.
he wanted “x” to be a thing since before he was really known all that much by the public, and probably felt appropriate with the direction change for Twitter because he still “thought” it would be cool to have something called X because he lives in the past and has the sensibilities of a child who’s desperate to look cool.
so here we are, take the world’s best known brand name and replace it with a single letter that is widely used to mean unknown. fucking idiot.
Not even unknown, in my area x almost always refers to porn. So yeah he destroyed the brand for a name that at worst offends a large group of people .
He’s been wanting to have an “everything” company named X for years, since before PayPal I think. So he jumped at the chance to ruin twitter of course and rebuild it from the top down
He was let go at PayPal because he tried to make it x.
Maybe he should buy Alphabet and rename their search engine.
He’d probably do it because of his hatred for “aLphABeT PeOpLE!” like his own kid. That fucking prick. If he were on fire, I’d piss on him, but not at the base of the flames.
I think all he managed to do, other than torching a legendary amount of money, was to create a bunch of easy content for some lazy college students in marketing 101. The ones who don’t want to dig to find something more interesting and nuanced.
I don’t think he has $1T, which is half the market cap
I’m gonna deadname his company for as long as he deadnames his kid :)
There’s no such thing as deadnaming a company/corporation/brand, they aren’t a living entity and have no will of their own, the one offended is their owner.
except they get more rights
I’m fine with offending Musk by calling his precious website Twitter. Aren’t you?
It isn’t exactly dead naming, of course i’ll happily do it. I did it for multiple other corporation that change hand and name, i’ll still call the name that i used to call it, confusing the younger generation is a plus, offending the CEO is the goal.
Sure, it isn’t really deadnaming, but if you want to offend him, saying it is deadnaming will also help.
And yet Elon’s mad that everyone still calls the platform he’s managed to actually make worse “twitter”.
You’d be rightfully surprised.
Is there anything the average person can do to increase the running cost of Twitter without increasing their revenue?
Like, can we just automate uploading videos of nothing meaningful, and re-loading them over and over forever?
I’m still pushing Xitter, pronounced with the “shee” sound
This is the way.
It is always morally correct to deadname transphobes. Including JD Vance who’s “Real” name is James Bowman
Thought it was Couchfucker McGuy-liner?
The D in his name is for couch because that’s the only place he wants to put it
what like “Tommy Robinson, Whose Real Name Is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon”, where you have to use the full name at all times
Awww. Poor Twitler doesn’t like his propaganda arm called Twitter.
I thought we all agreed to call it shitter?
South park called that years ago
That’s pretty much what I’ve said about Twitter since he changed the name- I’ll keep calling it Twitter while he still allows deadnaming.
Never. “X” is so cringey to say.
X11
xorg-x11
I’ll call it twitter until twitter.com is a different website
He fired to much people to recode every single dependency.
I go with “The website formerly known as Twitter” mostly for the Prince bit…
I mean, that is what corpo media calls it, so it’s correct enough.
