I don’t use it, but i’ll forever call it Twitter.
He looks high as giraffe pussy in that picture.
…ya know, I’m 40 years old, and up until this point in my life I’ve never once considered what a giraffe pussy looks like…and my brain isn’t capable of doing so. Maybe that’s a good thing.
Ask and you shall receive:
NSFW, but not pornographic
Click here for a non-sexualized video of the birth of a baby giraffe. It’s pretty high!
Dude literally bought Kleenex and insists you call it facial tissue paper.
Nah. He bought Kleenex and insists that you call it 42 because it’s a cool number.
Maybe he should buy Alphabet and rename their search engine.
Ooh or he could buy out Kleenex and rename that.
What the fuck would make someone throw out the name Twitter? It wasn’t a bad name. It wasn’t like…Phillip Morris or something.
“wasn’t a bad name” is the understatement of the year. it was one of the most successful brand names ever. normal people with functioning brains would kill to have a brand that’s so ingrained in the language, especially without the threat of genericizing the trademark.
xerox didn’t want people to use xerox as a generic verb to mean photocopy, or kleenex the same for a generic tissue.
but Twitter was never used to mean another social media site, and tweeting never means posting on Facebook or Tumblr or whatever. a tweet is specifically a post on Twitter. that’s the perfect brand.
Is this just a really bad business deal followed by absurdly poor leadership, but very visible?
Did Elon make it obvious he had a completely different vision for twitter when he talked about buying it?
no, but he was always chasing that “everything app”, some Chinese apps are like that and are probably insanely profitable so of course he wanted to do it himself for the US.
after he was forced to buy Twitter for a ridiculously high price reserved only for the most idiotic and/or insane of all people, he probably “thought” (a generous metaphor i use to describe the activity inside his cromagnon skull) that he might as well just do that with Twitter and hope it eventually makes enough money to make up for the worst high profile business decision in recent memory. that’s why he’s pushed for more functionalities like making Twitter a video platform, and doing meetups or whatever they’re called.
he wanted “x” to be a thing since before he was really known all that much by the public, and probably felt appropriate with the direction change for Twitter because he still “thought” it would be cool to have something called X because he lives in the past and has the sensibilities of a child who’s desperate to look cool.
so here we are, take the world’s best known brand name and replace it with a single letter that is widely used to mean unknown. fucking idiot.
He’s been wanting to have an “everything” company named X for years, since before PayPal I think. So he jumped at the chance to ruin twitter of course and rebuild it from the top down
He was let go at PayPal because he tried to make it x.
I’ll call it twitter until twitter.com is a different website
I go with “The website formerly known as Twitter” mostly for the Prince bit…
I mean, that is what corpo media calls it, so it’s correct enough.
He fired to much people to recode every single dependency.
It is always morally correct to deadname transphobes. Including JD Vance who’s “Real” name is James Bowman
Thought it was Couchfucker McGuy-liner?
The D in his name is for couch because that’s the only place he wants to put it
Never. “X” is so cringey to say.
X11
xorg-x11
Corporations are not people. They do not have a sense of identity. They do not deserve the same rights as humans. They are not capable of being affected by things like gender dysphoria. A corporation does not have feelings and is only a word we use to describe a collective form of actions made by ACTUAL humans.
You literally can not deadname a company. But Elon should understand the hypocrisy none the less.
Its almost funnier to see every news publication constantly refer to it as “X (formerly known as Twitter”), the constant need to remind people of how stupid the decision was it amusing
I prefer “Twitter (temporarily known as X)”
Ex Twitter
That would imply he or someone else will change the name back to Twitter
or it’ll close down
If it closed down, then it would close down as X
Awww. Poor Twitler doesn’t like his propaganda arm called Twitter.
There’s no such thing as deadnaming a company/corporation/brand, they aren’t a living entity and have no will of their own, the one offended is their owner.
except they get more rights
And yet Elon’s mad that everyone still calls the platform he’s managed to actually make worse “twitter”.
You’d be rightfully surprised.
I’m fine with offending Musk by calling his precious website Twitter. Aren’t you?
It isn’t exactly dead naming, of course i’ll happily do it. I did it for multiple other corporation that change hand and name, i’ll still call the name that i used to call it, confusing the younger generation is a plus, offending the CEO is the goal.
Sure, it isn’t really deadnaming, but if you want to offend him, saying it is deadnaming will also help.
Can we call it Twix
No, thats a candy bar. Love it or hate it, there’s no need drag a candy bar’s name into this shit.
Is it a candy bar…or is it two candy bars?
Hey, good news, Elon. Most of us have gone from calling it “twitter” to calling it “that facist shithole that used to be twitter”.
Good job wasting 43 BILLION dollars only to see it’s traffic literally cut in half, you micro-penised shitstain on society. You will not be remembered as the genius your group of ass kissers tell you you are. You’ll be remembered as being dumber than a one brain celled orange tabby.
You’re being optimistic. He won’t be remembered at all.
All the biggest disasters are remembered.
And it’s now less than one year salary because greed.
…who’s salary? I don’t make anywhere close to 43 billion a year. What job do YOU have???
They’re talking about Musk’s income…
Well he did take a fairly neutral platform used to spread ideas and form movements and destroy it. So I’m sure the right and the rich are happy about that.
They are. This is the equivalent of a 19th century steel tycoon buying up newspapers all across the country. It’s an investment.
That’s giving him too much credit, orange cats are just dumb not evil. He sucks the life of of people, encourages the spread of disease and death. He’s a mosquito. Just an annoying, insignificant bug that will only be remembered for the discomfort he caused.
I thought we always called it “radical shithole”. Not much changed. It’s just SJWs making indie gamedevs suicide were replaced with Christians making everyone else suicide.
God I hate the pedo hunts, like yeah even if they find real freaks… The fact that so many who weren’t guilty had their lives ruined and in some cases ended over bullshit accusations is offensive, especially since evidence collected in an illicit manner is not admissible in court. Prosecutors call it “Fruit from the Forbidden Tree”
Asking out of genuine curiosity how would one go about moderating or restricting deadnaming on Twitter from an applicable technical perspective?
Might not be popular but you dont want to restrict that type of stuff in tech, because people very quickly and easily find ways around it, usually by using new similar words that call back to the prohibited ones.
This is an area where moderation is key, and I think people might need to reconsider who they allow to send them direct messages. Especially I expect there to be a better way to vet someone who is trying to directly reach a stranger.
If you are literally going to open your door to the whole world some bad stuff will fall in, but you dont have to let them into your private areas just because they made it in the front door.
Trust networks are another idea, essentially verifying new people through acquaintances.
deadnames?
Like, something with AEX12? Pretty sure it doesn’t mean he has an actual dead child
He has a transgender daughter, whom he still calls by her old, male name. Calling a trans person by their old name that they no longer use, is called deadnaming.
Using a trans person’s original name when they’ve chosen a new one
Thanks for actually answering and not just downvoting like some toxic fucks in here. It seems that not even Lemmy is immune from social media’s toxicity.
To be fair your question was phrased a bit confusingly. It was hard to tell if you were asking clarification or supporting Elon in some strange way.
Sometimes people just assume that when someone asks a question that seems obvious to them, the person asking the question HAS to be a troll/bad person.
Also, you’re missing a flag.
Oh boy. No he has a male to female transgender child, who he intentionally calls by their given name at birth, Also he really switched over to being conservative and anti-trans after said child came out to him. Usually parents go the other way, but he went the extreme hate direction and has seemingly said his child is dead to him.
Is there anything the average person can do to increase the running cost of Twitter without increasing their revenue?
Like, can we just automate uploading videos of nothing meaningful, and re-loading them over and over forever?
