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As an aside remark, it's really funny how everyone has to elaborate what the fuck they're talking about when they talk about Twitter.
could have just been written as
but the epic genius elon decided to destroy all brand recognition. Truly incredible thing to witness. Twitter literally got its own branded terms into common lexicon and he just set it all on fire.
Which is amazing that X isn't being sued by Xorg. I guess they probably don't have the same amount of money (although Twitter is probably going to be negative soon). It's also not really competition, but they're both tech companies. I could easily see Xorg winning that one.
Whoever has the most money automatically wins a lawsuit, because X could EASILY just get more lawyers to make more BAD faith arguments.
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He didnt just set the brand recognition on fire, elon basically did everything someone would do if they wanted to intentionally run twitter into the ground.
Now spez needs to rename Reddit and make his idol proud.
In a Y (formerly known as post) on Y (formerly known as reddit) a Y (formerly known as user) "vaporeonpissdrinker69" has said that...
Ycombinator looks around nervously
At least, vaporeon is compatible. In fact it is most compatible.
Perfect tagline for that site: "Y tho"
...and they replace the alien with the fellow in the meme (who was a Pope apparently. Who knew.)
Maybe that was his plan for creating true free speech, by driving everyone away from twitter to mastodon...
A very 200iq plan, only cost him $44B
It cost him a lot more than that. He lost about 200 billion in stock value that he owned and among the companies he "runs" about a trillion was lost in total due to investers dumping stock after seeing his ineptitude on full display.
Truly someone who is willing to go beyond his earthy wealth for his ideas of free speech.
No. The companies he controls at some level lost about a trillion in stock value combined
Yeah probably, I am trying to be funny here haha.
Wait, he was a trillionaire before? Interesting, now I'm curious what effects did this made to the economy, it would be a fun read (maybe).
No no, it's not 'a tweet ' anymore, it's 'an X(, formerly known as a tweet)'
"In an X(formerly known as a tweet) on X(formerly known as Twitter) ..."
It just rolls off the tongue!
The first X is pronounced Æsh
I hope this practice never dies.
(Also has "the artist formerly known as Prince vibes".)
The Prince one is different, since he changed his name to something that can't be even spelled.
The current branding gives more a placeholder asset feeling than a memorable identity. Sorry the twitter logo isn't loading so we'll show you an "X" in the meantime
Why read X posts when you can watch X videos
I thought it was xeets
xcretes
"In a xweet (...)"
I prefer "xeet"
Xeet xeet, motherfucker
“In a xhit (…)”
On some news stories I've been seeing them refer to it as "the social media company X"
@fadingembers
So the company x social that existed before the muskrat bought twitter then, right?
@GnuLinuxDude
They could just keep calling tweet, or tweet on X, maybe they just keep this shit to show how stupid the change is...
"in a recent Twix.."