That fucker has been holding onto his original website "X .com" since before PayPal days.
He just finally figured out how he can get people to visit the site, he wants to prove to himself he wasn't wrong to hold it so long.
What an absolute Xloser.
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To be fair, this is how people tend to react to change, generally. I remember every time Facebook or YouTube did a site redesign in the early 2010s people were always up in arms.
Jake and Amir parodied this well in their "Facebook Redesign" episode. I'll try to add a link to later today.
Same goes for the Reddit redesign. People have been up in arms about new Reddit ever since it's been introduced.
I'm pretty sure they'd be much less up in arms if the new version didn't suck as much as it does, though. Same probably holds true for the redesigns that were introduced for Youtube and Facebook.
Most people have knee-jerk reactions to site redesigns, and then begrudgingly accept it sometime after.
The reddit redesign is different, in that most power users, mods, and long-time redditors are still using old.reddit 5+ years later.
That's not an entirely valid comparison in that the other platforms that got redesigned don't give the end-user the option to still use the old design. Chances are that if they did, a lot of people would stick to the old design there as well.
The Reddit redesign is so bad, they themselves recommend using their app!
That's by design. It's in Reddits bestinterest to drive usage towards their invasive app.
I know that. That's why people complain about it.
Yeah I left yahoo when they changed their design. Never went back. Though rebranding Twitter seems a waste of money. He paid 44 billionm, a lot of it for the brand.
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I've also works on countless of Ecommerce sites and every time we needed to rebrand or redesign something we would do it in many small iterations as major changes would always get blow backs
that’s because the changes are usually for the worse, not even joking. I use Facebook for a part of my job and their tools are so garbage.
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Had X arrived the same time as Twitter. Twitter would have won. Who the *uck wants to send an X?
Who the *uck wants to send an X?
douchebag edgelords who use the ‘X’ as a dog whistle for a swastika
ya, know, people like musk
Wait is that really a thing? They've already ruined my favorite number (8) and now my favorite letter too? Fucking nazis. >:(
I just did some Googling and I can't find any evidence supporting it. Closest I've found is this forum post where someone has apparently confused the Wehrmacht's iron cross logo for an "X".
Xzibit?
It's like New Coke, but even dumber.
Okay, so let's go down the list. Musk has bought Twitter so he could:
- Suspend the user that was tracking his plane
- "Own the libs", I mean, he's definitely a republicunt
- Run out all of the news outlets he deemed not trustworthy
- Unban the orange monkey
- Now rebrand Twitter as a letter because he couldn't let go of an era that was far, far better off without his existence
That was fun
Frankly, I love the negative feedback on this platform,” he tweeted on July 22. “Vastly preferable to some sniffy censorship bureau!”
Like he doesn't actively silence people on his platform lmao.
Funnily enough, I tried using the phrase “right-wing media” in a reply to a tweet today and it wouldn’t go through.
No error, nothing, just refused to submit. Tried a couple of times, no go.
Rephrased it and it magically went through.
It looks kind of similar to Xorg's logo to me.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/X.Org_Logo.svg/1279px-X.Org_Logo.svg.png
I mean, his is embosssed, but if I were choosing a logo for my new brand "x.com", I don't think I'd choose sowething that looks a lot like x.org's logo.
It's worse, unicode already has the "𝕏" character for the past 22 years:
Oh, that's also a thought. IIRC Intel tried trademarking the letter "i" at one point and the USPTO wouisn't allow it, so I dunno if a single-character trademark is considered distinctive enough. Xorg's has more stuff to it than just the base letter.
Despite this, when I do a Google search on "𝕏", it pretends that I searched for "X".
So although it may look different, it behaves all the same.
I'm sure he will be receptive to the input of his users
Reject Twitter, join the Fediverse!
Literally the only thing keeping me on Twitter is that I want notifications from my sports team, as well as the local sports reporter who covers them. I used to be able to have their tweets come through an RSS reader, but since Elon's nuking of API access that no longer works :(
On mastodon, someone created a bot that can mirror anyone's tweets. Just take their Twitter handle and append "@bird.makeup". There's a little jank, but it made the switch a lot easier for me.
There's another one that does specific sports-related accounts under sportsbots.xyz and works very well.
The only reason I still have the Twitter app is because that's where my Nintendo switch upload screenshots and videos.
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Musk says he’s unbothered by the criticism. “Frankly, I love the negative feedback on this platform,” he tweeted on July 22. “Vastly preferable to some sniffy censorship bureau!”
What
What censorship bureau is he talking about? A purely theoretical one (where is that coming from?) or one he's actually had to deal with in the past?
And of course griping, powerless plebs are better than a "censorship bureau" that can presumably force you to do or not do things by penalty of law 🙄 tell me you're rich and powerful without telling me you're rich and powerful.
I would say "humiliation kink confirmed?" but this is just a guy enjoying being able to do things that other people don't like, with no one to stop him.
What's the quote for Jurassic Park...oh yeah.
"They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."
Musk says he’s unbothered by the criticism. “Frankly, I love the negative feedback on this platform,” he tweeted on July 22. “Vastly preferable to some sniffy censorship bureau!”
Holy shit he's unhinged. Not that that's any news...
How did you like the criticism on your standup "comedy" performance, Elon? Or were that sock puppets by the deep state to hinder your free speech?
I am curious how many people will call it X. New users maybe but OGs probably won’t
Obviously it is X Twitter now to the general populace.
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