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Because branding is one of my passions in life. I love good branding. Twitter is fantastic branding. X... is not. Watching Elon destroy the Twitter brand is l

Because branding is one of my passions in life. I love good branding. Twitter is fantastic branding. X... is not. Watching Elon destroy the Twitter brand is like watching someone throw orange paint on the Mona Lisa.

andsoitis 3y ago
In October 2022 Musk said "Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app".
- Ensorceled 3y ago
  If someone says "I'm going to throw orange paint on the Mona Lisa", I don't actually get upset until the Mona Lisa is orange.
  - TheRealNGenius 3y ago
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- vGPU 3y ago
  Oh, lovely. Just like the Chinese “everything app”? With the social scores?
coding123 3y ago
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- Tijdreiziger 3y ago
  Can you give an example of somebody who has thrown orange paint on any painting (i.e. not on a piece of glass in front of a painting)?
  - andsoitis 3y ago
    While I’m not aware of any of the incidents actually having caused damage to the master pieces (all have been on the protective glass), these acts are not without cost to the wrong organizations and people: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/arts/design/climate-protests-museums-sentences-art.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/arts/design/climate-prote...
moralestapia 3y ago
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- dang 3y ago
  No doubt the analogy was overwrought, but please don't break the site guidelines like this. It only makes everything worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
UnixSchizoid 3y ago
There is no way you are serious, it’s just a website. You can’t compare it to one of the most famous works of art.
- mikeg8 3y ago
  Seeing as Art is riddled with subjectivity, you absolutely could. And calling twitter “just a website” is disingenuous as it facilitates real-time global communication and a scale not previously reached by humans. I personally never used twitter, but I still respect what they built.
- Zambyte 3y ago
  There is no way you are serious, it's just a piece of paper. You can't compare it to one of the most famous websites. It can pretty easily go both ways. The Mona Lisa have been a cultural icon for a long time, but Twitter has had a massive influence on culture since it's inception.
  - classified 3y ago
    You are misinformed, canvas is not paper.
    - Zambyte 3y ago
      I don't think it matters for the point I was making.
    - seabass-labrax 3y ago
      The Mona Lisa was painted on a wood panel, not paper or canvas.
      - classified 3y ago
        So much for me being smarty-pants...
  - lostlogin 3y ago

andsoitis 3y ago

In October 2022 Musk said "Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app".

Ensorceled 3y ago
If someone says "I'm going to throw orange paint on the Mona Lisa", I don't actually get upset until the Mona Lisa is orange.
- TheRealNGenius 3y ago
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vGPU 3y ago
Oh, lovely. Just like the Chinese “everything app”? With the social scores?

coding123 3y ago

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Tijdreiziger 3y ago
Can you give an example of somebody who has thrown orange paint on any painting (i.e. not on a piece of glass in front of a painting)?
- andsoitis 3y ago
  While I’m not aware of any of the incidents actually having caused damage to the master pieces (all have been on the protective glass), these acts are not without cost to the wrong organizations and people: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/arts/design/climate-protests-museums-sentences-art.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/arts/design/climate-prote...

moralestapia 3y ago

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dang 3y ago
No doubt the analogy was overwrought, but please don't break the site guidelines like this. It only makes everything worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

UnixSchizoid 3y ago

There is no way you are serious, it’s just a website. You can’t compare it to one of the most famous works of art.

mikeg8 3y ago
Seeing as Art is riddled with subjectivity, you absolutely could. And calling twitter “just a website” is disingenuous as it facilitates real-time global communication and a scale not previously reached by humans. I personally never used twitter, but I still respect what they built.
Zambyte 3y ago
There is no way you are serious, it's just a piece of paper. You can't compare it to one of the most famous websites. It can pretty easily go both ways. The Mona Lisa have been a cultural icon for a long time, but Twitter has had a massive influence on culture since it's inception.
- classified 3y ago
  You are misinformed, canvas is not paper.
  - Zambyte 3y ago
    I don't think it matters for the point I was making.
  - seabass-labrax 3y ago
    The Mona Lisa was painted on a wood panel, not paper or canvas.
    - classified 3y ago
      So much for me being smarty-pants...
- lostlogin 3y ago