The @ is also being dropped and all usernames are now in the format “xXusernameXx”
Usernames may only be appended with the following numeric combinations: 420, 69, 666
Hey it’s Twitter, don’t forget 14 and 88
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TwitterXftfy
Musk could add some lines at the ends of the X. A nice windmill
I am out of loop, what does 14 and 88 mean?
14 is code for ‘the fourteen words’, a racist white separatist slogan that I won’t reproduce here. 88 is a symbol for nazism - h is the 8th letter of the alphabet, hence, 88=hh, or heil hitler. If you see someone with an 88 tattoo, this is what they are signaling.
Super secret Nazi numbers for the super secret Nazi club. 14 = 14 words of some tedious slogan that they’re fond of, and 88 = HH = Howdly-doodly Hitlerinos
Everyone on twitter is going to become an ePiC pRo GaMeR from 2016
Forty-four billion dollars to not have the employees, offices, servers, code, reputation, vetting, or brand.
And his hot new name for this smoldering ruin is… X.
Absolute fucking child.
I grew such hatred for this man in the past years I wish he would just ruin himself and not hear a delusional thing from him ever again.
I was thinking of that. By this guy I’d also the one that is associated with spaceX, Sterling, neuralink and Tesla.
Even if he is only a marketer or a shill or just lucky or whatever; I recognize the fact that not everyone is that lucky or ‘in the right place at the right time’ that often. So there’s got to be something he is doing right.
And that then leads me to wondering, how do you handle that? As a public figure, everything he fits is open to the world, but do you any I always make perfect decisions 100% of the times? And do we really expect anyone to make perfect decisions all the time?
If him and bezos were thinking of always being right, they simply wouldn’t be where they are today. And then you can make the argument that maybe we would have been better off. But what’s to say there wouldn’t have been someone else?
Sorry, didn’t mean to get all philosophical, but I am getting to ignoring billionaires shenanigans than trying to understand the reasoning. Just like I ignore the life of the other 99.9% of the world.
He did at least one thing right; He was born to a dad in South Africa who owned half an emerald mine.
I think what’s really coming through in recent times aided well by Musk, is how profoundly average these billionaire geniuses really are, despite their extraordinary lives.
This wouldn’t be such a bad thing, after all, you or I aren’t typically judged in the same way for being just ordinary and it might even be comforting that they’re just people after all, but the problem is that we’ve geared up society in such a way where they’re basically king’s (and I choose Kings, not Queens deliberately).
The positions they hold demand great people, even a good person will not suffice. If we’re to have these demi-gods profoundly influencing society they’d better be something special. In the past, there was an idea cultivated that royalty were divine representatives, in the modern context they create a similar myth of genius expertise that is manifest and evident because of their wealth, but sadly the reality appears to be that they’re special for being wealthy, not wealthy because they’re special.
This doesn’t bode well in a society that allows billionaires to exist.
They have money to back them up…or to hide mistakes…throw money at a problem and it goes away…
You’re delusional if you are equating Besos and Musk as CEOs. One built their company from the ground up by making judicious decisions. The other took emerald mine money from daddy and started buying shit.
Lol you’re funny if you don’t think besos also had rich parents
Bezos did have events like his parents loaning him $300k early on, which isn’t like being handed $400 million but it’s an advantage not everyone has.
Exactly. And let’s not forget that the rich have stronger class solidarity. Bezos got a lot more than a $300k loan; he got the experience of a wealthy education which is primarily for the networking. He got access to his parents’ network as well.
See also Bill Gates, who, in a bout of nepotism, used his mommy’s rich connections with IBM to secure Microsoft. People don’t understand that Microsoft made nothing of actual worth in their early days. They were middlemen, buying DOS from someone else and claiming it as their own.
Like, oh, Tesla.
Lol, I can assure you he’s not doing things right, and it’s all luck and a lot of willingness to be an asshole. The achievements come from the passionate engineers and scientists.
One possibility is that he’s good at taking credit for the achievements of engineers and scientists. But a more charitable possibility is just that domain expertise/ignorance are real. Musk might be really good at running manufacturing companies and just not have any clue about software or politics or condoms.
A ton of hardware guys think software is trivially easy. Some of the worst people at personal finance are doctors. I’ve met a ton of other engineers who will proudly and ignorantly tell actual economists what they think causes inflation or recessions or whatever.
Disney’s CEO is being paid something like 530x the tegular employee. I would say yes. The expectation is that their decision making should be held to a much much much higher standard.
And do we really expect anyone to make perfect decisions all the time?
It’s not about making perfect decisions all the time. Being a good businessman doesn’t automatically make you an expert in every area. You don’t suddenly become a genius politician or scientist, nor do you acquire the secret knowledge of how to end the war in Ukraine or censor Twitter, among other things. Both he and his fan base should recognize this because his words carry a lot of weight - that can be harmful.
I was 10 years old and got a GameCube game called Hot Wheels Velocity X. I hadn’t played it yet, but I told my friend I knew it would be cool because of the X.
That’s what Elon is like, and again, I was 10 years old
But did it turn out to be a cool game?
Yeah, it was awesome! Part of me thinks it would still hold up today
This man needs to be investigated as a national security threat. There’s no way this isn’t intentional sabotage at this point. It’s not an accident that he got the money for this from Saudis who benefit from destroying twitter.
Is not that bad lol he does that just to gain attraction and you are being baited
He’s only being incompetent for attention, says someone who thinks they’re defending him.
He is just baiting people and everyone is falling
He’s causing harm.
Doing it as a joke isn’t better.
Or true.
I could not care less about what Musk does. But the slow collapse of Twitter is entertaining.
I’m amazed how many people are still sticking with it despite everything.
Now imagine how many people are sticking with Reddit 😭
The only reason 90% of people there are still staying is because of the content that other people post so it’d require a mass exodus of almost everyone to another, single website
I care a lot because he fucks up a lot more than just social media.
Also the collapse has not been slow, it’s been positively rapid and, as someone who never used or liked Twitter in the first place, I’m also enjoying it.
Imagine wanting to change the name of a world recognized company and the best you can come up with is “X”. 💀
and somehow it’s still better than his kids names
That actually is what he calls one of his kids per a friend at SpaceX who sees him with said child
When Blackwater started to feel the heat from the shit they were doing in the war they changed their name to the Xe Group to reduce their brand visibility. Does Elon hang out with Erik Prince?
He’s GenX and as a fellow GenX’er we take everything to THE XXXXXTREME!!!
I’m sure it’ll be a stylised X with serifs on each corner.
Possibly on a red and white background.
I didn’t know it would come off like that
Nah, it will be minimalist. Because minimalism is cool. It will be a white X on a black background. And it will be Helvetica.
Thanks a lot, 2013.
I make all my company logos using the shapes in MS Word 2003.
I’m probably reckoning that this is what many companies do nowadays.
He’ll ask for the tips of the X to be curved at an angle, roughly 90 degrees, clockwise, as some stylistic choice.
Wow. Nobody has ever thought of using an X in their branding before. What a brilliant idea. This man’s vision knows no bounds. 🙄
It’s just that he own the domain name x.com since 1999 and is very proud of it. He wanted to do something with it so here we go.
If this is true, this explains everything. What a child.
Don’t forget he even named one of his children “X”.
Bet he even made the kid just to name it that.
The man is obsessed!
I had no idea! X.com goes to Twitter. crazy.
He is so intelligent. One day I wish I could come up with a name like X.
He probably was thinking "oh hey let’s make it mysterious… What’s more mysterious than x? Nothing! Solve for x! Right guys? Right? (everyone says yes since all smart people left the building).
Early 2000 energy.
He’s so XTREME
Roman numerals. Twitter is now “Ten”. Like Elon.
If you loved X, you’re going to love X ULTRA. Soon to be followed by X ULTRA PRO, & X ULTRA PRO LITE.
Almost forgot. We are sunsetting X, and you will need to pay for X ULTRA in order to do anything on your X account.
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You mean to tell me that Racer X is in fact Rex Racer!? That is outrageous
Major spoiler. cmon man.
That’s very on brand for Musk, he seems to have an obsession with Xs.
I heard that’s why he moved to Texas because someone told him “all the X’s” live there.
If he moved to Nashville after this would make sense
he’s squatted on x.com for decades
He’s saving it for when the aliens arrive and he can finally become a tactical military commander
For what it’s worth, x.com was originally a novel and useful online banking platform in its heyday.
I used it at the time, pre Paypal.
That said, fuck Elon. He’s a fucking dumbass chode.
There’s idiotic and then there’s Elon
Yes. And in between there’s “very idiotic” and then lots of distance…
No one should pay attention to the name change. Just keep calling it Twitter. Like people won’t acknowledge that he doesn’t call himself Kanye anymore because he’s a piece of shit and why honor anything he asks for?
How about we just stop talking about it at all?
Be the change you want to see.
Doesn’t work. Example: Facebook.
Like most call Meta, Facebook still.
Exactly. Fuck Musk and Fuck Zuckerberg and their PR/marketing bullshit.
Fuck Spez
I call it meth
I bet the next step is to rename himself. Elon doesn’t cut it, he should be known as Captain America or something.
Considering his sense of humor, he’s more likely to change his name to something like Hugh Cock.
Or Mike Hunt might be more apt.
Of course he has humor like a pre-teen school boy…
Hugh G. Cock to be precise
or the Great American Icon “Homelander”
Should have gone with ‘F’
‘L’ would be more fitting since that’s the only thing they’ve been taking
Not pressing F for that one.
It seems Elon’s using an Xbox controller.
Ironic or not: Soon it will be known as “Ex-Twitter”.
And the logo will be an ex-parrot.
One that’s pushing up the daisies.
It’s pining for the Fjords.
It is no more.
Pining for the fjords
We’ll call it “the platform formally known as Twitter” and then we’ll sing Nothing Compares 2 U as we remember how much less shit it was before Melon blustered in.
X is a truly unique sign, very good choice. Very recognizable
Unlike an f
I mean, that’s stupid too. Just that it has been in existence for long enough. Maybe they will follow the simplification trend and idk remove one of the lines from the F.
It’ll be an anti-clockwise spinning X, with speed lines extending from the tips.
Am I the only one old enough to remember when “Brand X” was the obviously substandard brand that all the name brands compared themselves to?
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Well, it’s a good thing I switched to Wayland.
Finally an argument to switch I can get behind.
