I don’t use it, but i’ll forever call it Twitter.
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?
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
so it would still be temporary, is the joke. It’s just a pune or play on words
It was also temporarily called Twitter though
And we’d still call what it was “Twitter”.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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”
X is still such a stupid fucking name. I feel cringe saying that.
I won’t. It will always be twitter, and he bought it because people made fun of him.
He offered to buy it as a joke, and was forced to finish the transaction because he had taken it too far by actually signing contracts and putting money down. He was gonna go “Just kidding” and pull out, but then the courts told him that this already constituted a legally binding sell and if he tried to back out now he’d go to jail for fraud.
That sounds like the courts are fucking stupid and ill-prepared to do their jobs.
It’s very “hacking, trenchcoats, and Muse are cool” isn’t it?
Like, yeah. Obviously this guy thought of it…
What did Muse do to deserve this?
I want to know but am afraid to search for it… I liked Muse but havent lept up with their recent works.
Other than Matthew banging all the models and the bassist getting help for alcoholism, I don’t know of any other news, other than they are fuckin rad!
I always just hear it referred to as xorg, which I pronounce “x-org”
I pronounce it “the 2nd best windowing system currently used by GNU/Linux users”
I like saying it like “zorg”
Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg
Awww. Poor Twitler doesn’t like his propaganda arm called Twitter.
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.
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!
They got a zoo in your town?
I don’t think I like where this is going…
… To the zoo?
They kick you out if you get too close to the animals genitals :(
Joe Rogan, is that you?
That’s pretty much what I’ve said about Twitter since he changed the name- I’ll keep calling it Twitter while he still allows deadnaming.
I’m gonna deadname his company for as long as he deadnames his kid :)
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.
You’d be rightfully surprised.
except they get more rights
And yet Elon’s mad that everyone still calls the platform he’s managed to actually make worse “twitter”.
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.
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.
Not even unknown, in my area x almost always refers to porn. So yeah he destroyed the brand for a name that at worst offends a large group of people .
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.
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.
The same way that we deal with every other thing that social media platforms restrict. You make it against the rules and then enforce them. If you’re feeling fancy you could program some heuristics to determine the likelihood of a message containing deadnames - for example, maintain a list of common targets, look for people tagging them or related hashtags in tweets containing their dead name, and use sentiment analysis, to determine whether those messages should be subject to moderator approval before appearing publicly.
I agree with the other responses you have here.
I’ll add one observation: the more petty the censorship, the bigger the backlash. People in general loathe that kind of behavior, and internet geeks with a vivid collective memory of being bullied by people like this? Oh, you reap the whirlwind in such cases.
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
Musk-chan?
Never. “X” is so cringey to say.
X11
xorg-x11
