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> It's more like "x.com" is the canonical name. It sounds like a porn website. I don't think most business owners would want this as their brand, but I guess E
by FartyMcFarter 3y ago
> It's more like "x.com" is the canonical name.
It sounds like a porn website. I don't think most business owners would want this as their brand, but I guess Elon is special in this way as well.
- edgyquant 3y ago[flagged]
- debugnik 3y agoTesla models S 3 X Y, SpaceX is homonymous with space-sex, and yet you think x.com wasn't meant to sound like a porn site? Musk clearly has a thing for 12yo jokes.
- FartyMcFarter 3y agoI would have thought someone with the nickname "edgyquant" wouldn't be so judgemental.
- da_chicken 3y agoElon is special in a lot of ways. Twitter had one of the strongest brands. Not in social media, not in technology, just one of the strongest brands period. Do people realize how rare and difficult that is to do? That little blue bird was everywhere. Elon just gave it up. Flushed it away. Kind of like those advertising contracts.
- kaba0 3y agoIt is indeed his biggest mismanagement, but it’s a serious competition. At least it broke the image of ‘CEOs must be intelligent’, that was wide spread in certain circles.
- FredPret 3y agoYou don't think he's smart? Maybe he did it for the lol's, or to own his political opponents, or maybe it was just a mistake he locked himself into. All of which sound just like him. Rockets don't fly and electric cars don't drive if they aren't built right, which puts a floor on the IQ of the man who is that involved and hands-on with it. Being early in a major startup is a big deal, never mind a whole string of them. He may or may not be weird or an asshole but he sure ain't stupid. EDIT: I've been on the fence about this guy ever since I read his most recent biography, but it's really hilarious how saying something even remotely positive about him brings out an crowd who is enraged at his very being and the notion that such a thing as competence might exist.
- fluoridation 3y ago>for the lol's Well, the previous owners of Twitter are laughing with him, all the way to the bank. >to own his political opponents I don't see how throwing away a brand does that. >maybe it was just a mistake he locked himself into Again, I don't see how that's possible. What he locked himself into was buying Twitter at a stupid price. After he did that he could have simply kept Twitter as it was, which was what he paid for. If he was just going to remake Twitter into something completely different there was no need to buy it at all. He could have just built X from the start. You could argue that what he bought was Twitter's userbase, but that userbase exists because Twitter is the way it is, and there's no guarantee that it'll stick around once Musk finishes turning Twitter into X.
- unaindz 3y agoIf he did it for the lols of for "owning the libs" he would have told us way back then. He did it because he thinks the x looks cool, SpaceX, Tesla model X, even his son is called X. He just didn't realized or didn't care that it would kill the amazing brand it had before. That, just after making the mistake of overpaying for twitter while trying to fool around with a buy he didn't even want to make, makes him not very smart. If that doesn't convince you lots of his proposals for innovative tech are bs. From single line underground tunnels for cars instead of just using more efficient trains, designing a stupid submarine to rescue the kids trapped in the Tham Luang cave as a PR stunt and then calling a pedophile the expert diver who called him out on it. There is probably more. I mean he doesn't even understand the costs of running a page as big as wikipedia so I wouldn't want him near my rockets if I worked for spaceX.
- dingnuts 3y agonot that I'm exactly hopeful or that I think this indicates wisdom in Elon's move, or that he will be successful, but it -would- be good to have a social media site that isn't advertising supported, so that the users aren't the product. Aren't we always on about that on this site?