Elon Musk says Twitter will soon be renamed "X", an idea so bad even now few think he's serious

… and Billy Idol, and Douglas Coupland :roll_eyes:

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He means “Ex” right?

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Kudos for making the Asterix reference in the article.
idefixe

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So, converting gradually to a very soft porn site then.

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If Twitter (as “X”) continues to lose users, eventually we’ll be able to say, Look at all that Space on “X”.

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… big genius billionaire doesn’t understand

  1. He’ll eventually lose the Twitter trademark if he doesn’t use it

  2. He can’t trademark the letter X

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Back to Musk’s idea of turning Twitter into a WeChat-style everything app then.

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He’s going to have to stop calling them “tweets” and start calling them “X’es”.

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twitter.com registration is currently set to expire in January (2024-01-21 at 16:28:17). It’s possible as incompetent as twitter is and could be a lot of fun

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With 140% growth this year, don’t expect them to be anything but ecstatic about the lunacy.

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There was a new DuckTales episode where tech CEO and villain Mark Beaks was generating hype for his new invention, Project Ta-dah. “Everything you think it is, and nothing you’re expecting”. It was in fact nothing, just a hoax to pump up his stock value.

I guess the fantasy part was that the name and slogan were too good.

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it’s always hard to say how tesla might have done under a competent ceo. at least rivian, ford, and gm have all managed to produce a functioning ev truck.

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… a tech stockholder’s only concern is to never be the last mark in the room

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the pundits openly wondering about Twitter’s CEO Linda Yaccarino’s role in all this, as if she has any to speak of.

No big mystery. Her role here is what it’s supposed to be in general: nodding along enthusiastically to whatever stupid or delusional whim her edgelord boss has, and eventually taking the fall when the company crashes and burns so that the fanbois can blame anyone other than their God-Emperor.

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The people who run Tesla are probably just happy that Musk has been too distracted by the Twitter dumpster fire to fuck too many things up at the car factory.

Though I still have to laugh at the latest promotional images for that hideous “Cybertruck” of his. All these years later and they clearly still have no idea how to put functional windshield wipers on the thing.

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(Knowing X would)

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Using the pronunciation of the Chinese X, these brain droppings should be, fittingly, called “Xits”, and issuing them shall be known as “Xitting”.

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It is so weird how his preferred aesthetic seems to be “diegetic genre fiction”.

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