• @gotnuffin
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      681 year ago

      This highlights how deep the BS surrounding Musk has burrowed into the media scape. They invariably refer to his companies as “Elon Musks Tesla” or “Elon Musks Twitter” and so on. Where other billionaire’s (for the most part) avoid the limelight and their companies stand seperate to their idiotic personal choices.

      • @psycho_driver
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        711 year ago

        I am Elon Musk’s throbbing need for attention.

      • @chase_what_matters
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        481 year ago

        I say “Elon Musk’s Twitter” like would I say “Joel Schumacher’s Batman” — to identify it as the worst version of the thing.

        • @gotnuffin
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          271 year ago

          Here’s his prequels

          Elon Musks failed Solar City

          Elon Musks failed Boring Company

          Elon Musks failed Hyperloop

          • @[email protected]
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            191 year ago

            Unfortunately Boring and the hyperloop were wins for him. The goal was to get cities to continue using cars.

          • lemmyvore
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            151 year ago

            Boring and Hyperloop were successful, they were meant to divert local governments from pursuing viable public transportation projects.

          • @hardcoreufo
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            81 year ago

            Just a few more failures away from qualifying to be president of the USA.

    • Eureka PhoenixOP
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      281 year ago

      Lol the tweet I found this article from referred to it as Meta. nah.

      • @gotnuffin
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        431 year ago

        I like how you still call it a tweet. I hope tweet, tweeting and twitter remain the lexicon for X forever.

        • Grammaton Cleric
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          131 year ago

          Tweet and Retweet are now Post and Repost 😭

          • rigatti
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            141 year ago

            It’s just mindboggling. I never even used Twitter and I’m annoyed about it.

          • @Cabrio
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            101 year ago

            More like eXcrete, and eXhibit.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          Twitter and tweeting where such well established and creative words, which set Twitter apart. I loved the analogy to birds. And Elon just throws all of that away…

        • @Syrc
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          11 year ago

          No no, let it change. If “””X””” loses the actually marketable and popular terminology it’s all downhill from there (like, even more than now)

    • ares35
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      81 year ago

      the local telephone service here has seen several owners and even more name changes in the last couple decades. i still call it by the company name it had in the 90s.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Stadiums get like too.

        Going to catch the game at the T-Moble Samsung SL17 this weekend?
        Uhh

    • @Onfire
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      71 year ago

      Just like X will never replace Twitter. That was a weird rebranding tbh. Meta at least makes some sense.

      • @[email protected]
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        That’s because Zuckerberg is actually a smart guy. He may be a prick and an asshole and possibly not human, but you really can’t deny he is smart.

        Musk is an immature idiot with money.

        • @Onfire
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          21 year ago

          Meta lost $40 billion in Metaverse. I wouldn’t call that smart. Facebook rebranding kept Facebook as a sub product of Meta. Elon should have done the same with Twitter by keeping Twitter as a product under X.