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I have a feeling the biggest blunder Musk made isn't verbal gaffes, but renaming Twitter to X. He basically gave business away to Meta on silver platter.
by pcurve 3y ago
I have a feeling the biggest blunder Musk made isn't verbal gaffes, but renaming Twitter to X. He basically gave business away to Meta on silver platter.
- rado 3y agoYes, that was the last straw
- avalys 3y agoAbsolutely this. One of the dumbest things he’s ever done.
- marcod 3y agoWhich is even funnier when you know he tried to rename PayPal to X before and got fired over this abysmal idea.
- CharlesW 3y agoFor anyone who wants to know more: https://mashable.com/article/musk-x-twitter-paypal https://mashable.com/article/musk-x-twitter-paypal
- xorcist 3y agoHe also tried to replace everything unix-like with MS Windows. Somehow that must have seemed really important when trying to make a startup survive the dot com boom-and-bust cycle.
- rsynnott 3y agoWhich is odd, really; you’d think that X11 would have appealed to his terrible names fetish. Oh. Though, actually this was probably the ActiveX era (DirectX is largely the only remaining evidence of it today, but MS went though an irritating “everything should end in X” phase in the late 90s).
- nihonthrowaway 3y agoXbox - prototype name for ActiveX game box.
- pezezin 3y agoXbox Series X. Like, how many X can you cram into a name?
- marcod 3y agoWindowsX ;)
- alexsereno 3y agoTwitter had such a strong and recognizable brand too. Working in payments under the X name or something like that might have made sense, but what a god awful idea to kill core app branding.
- jalapenos 3y agoAgreed, but that said, he can call it what he wants -- the rest of us still call it Twitter.
- Whoppertime 3y agoWhat is Meta? Are you talking about Facebook? They must have changed their name...