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

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The MCU is now 15 years old, and until it hits its cultural nadir around 30 or so it will only become less and less cool — a new generation will stake its claim to the zeitgeist by finding more and more things lame, tired, and problematic about it

… won’t stop Elon of course :thinking:

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I Heard It On The X

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I’m surprised that he didn’t go with SX or Xl. They’re slightly more juvenile.

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There is a brazilian (ex-)billionaire who is also obsessed with including X in all of his projects.

He got rich thanks to privileged information from his father who worked as a minister for the brazilian government, and (spoiler:) is currently under arrest for corruption.

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Zuckerberg has made a lot of bad decisions over the years but he still wasn’t stupid enough to change the name of the actual Facebook platform everyone had been using for over a decade and a half, just the name of the parent company.

Twitter has been so thoroughly trashed since the Musk takeover that its brand name recognition was one of the few truly valuable assets it had left.

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He’s repeating the mistakes of his past by entering an industry he doesn’t understand with big ideas, being unable to listen to feedback, holding onto strategies that aren’t working, and treating his employees like trash.

A nice summary. These are all renowned leadership qualities. :roll_eyes:

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Time was a for-profit corporation couldn’t get a .org domain since those were reserved for non-profits only.

Anyway x.com is now redirecting to twitter.com.

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First Musk makes me drop Twitter completely. Now he makes me want to drop my username of nearly 3 decades.

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Aw yeah, a rebranding and a new coat of paint is all they need, right?

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X-COM, you say?

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Hmmm…I think the original is a bit better. It’s too bad, the one above is the first time I heard it with that band make-up. The best line-up in my opinion.

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X’s you say…

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I think that the present case is more of an XCOM: Enemy Within scenario.

Though Musk is even more desperately uncool than usual compared to EXALT.

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