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Thanks, Elon, for rebranding Twitter to X

1 points by rpgbr 3y ago

tamimio 3y ago
I don’t understand why journalists are keen on hating Elon after the Twitter “fiasco”, except the branding change as an obvious change, pretty much almost everything is the same, you can post and interact with whoever is still there.. is it because some other people that you don’t like or align with are now allowed to post? Isn’t journalism is all about listening, reporting, and debating all kind of news and opinions? Per the article: >has always disdained political agendas that were important to many people who use(d?) and made Twitter. So does that make Elon (who’s per the article is a reactionary extremist) better than these journalists (who are not a reactionary extremists) for staying in a platform that he didn’t align with or agree with its political/opinion views? It’s a social media, you shouldn’t expect everyone or sometimes most of the people around you to agree with your views. That being said, I would love to see the journalists are hating on him for other stuff than Twitter, and there’s plenty.
- rpgbr 3y ago
  Hate speech is rampant and the service is falling apart. I guess we can agree that Twitter is in a much worse shape than it was before Musk took over. I can live with people that think different than me (I really enjoy that!). The problem with extremists like Musk is that they can't, so much that they preach the suppression of everyone other than who thinks (and looks, and behaves) like them.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
  All of his companies are extensively covered, not just Twitter? There's a Tesla scandal with fraudulent range display and specs for example, as we speak. As for Twitter. Y'know, sometimes I don't know how one could miss everything that has happened in the past 10 months and not made some conclusions, but it'd be very tiresome to write a book listing every event that explains why Twitter is for example massively cash negative despite firing 80% of its employees and not paying rent and bills. Also the "rebrand" is objectively incompetent in almost all ways I can think of. There was no planning, neither in terms of design, nor in terms of technical logistics, nor legal about trademarks. X as a trademark itself is terrible as it's too generic, hard to search and lacks sufficient context by itself, so you understand what we're talking about. But I've come to accept the bell curve. Some people catch on early. Most people catch on in the middle of it. And some people catch on very late. We're currently in the middle of it. You'll eventually catch on.

1 points by rpgbr 3y ago

I don’t understand why journalists are keen on hating Elon after the Twitter “fiasco”, except the branding change as an obvious change, pretty much almost everything is the same, you can post and interact with whoever is still there.. is it because some other people that you don’t like or align with are now allowed to post? Isn’t journalism is all about listening, reporting, and debating all kind of news and opinions? Per the article: >has always disdained political agendas that were important to many people who use(d?) and made Twitter. So does that make Elon (who’s per the article is a reactionary extremist) better than these journalists (who are not a reactionary extremists) for staying in a platform that he didn’t align with or agree with its political/opinion views? It’s a social media, you shouldn’t expect everyone or sometimes most of the people around you to agree with your views. That being said, I would love to see the journalists are hating on him for other stuff than Twitter, and there’s plenty.

rpgbr 3y ago
Hate speech is rampant and the service is falling apart. I guess we can agree that Twitter is in a much worse shape than it was before Musk took over. I can live with people that think different than me (I really enjoy that!). The problem with extremists like Musk is that they can't, so much that they preach the suppression of everyone other than who thinks (and looks, and behaves) like them.
3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
All of his companies are extensively covered, not just Twitter? There's a Tesla scandal with fraudulent range display and specs for example, as we speak. As for Twitter. Y'know, sometimes I don't know how one could miss everything that has happened in the past 10 months and not made some conclusions, but it'd be very tiresome to write a book listing every event that explains why Twitter is for example massively cash negative despite firing 80% of its employees and not paying rent and bills. Also the "rebrand" is objectively incompetent in almost all ways I can think of. There was no planning, neither in terms of design, nor in terms of technical logistics, nor legal about trademarks. X as a trademark itself is terrible as it's too generic, hard to search and lacks sufficient context by itself, so you understand what we're talking about. But I've come to accept the bell curve. Some people catch on early. Most people catch on in the middle of it. And some people catch on very late. We're currently in the middle of it. You'll eventually catch on.