• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Imagine spending 40 billion dollars on one of the most recognizable brands in history, so deeply embedded in the public consciousness that any other company would throw virgins into a volcano for a chance at that level of recognition, just to replace all of that branding with your own little name that everyone has been telling you sounds stupid for the last 25 years

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      10 months ago

      And the one dedicated to cute animal photos, xhamster.

    • LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      You guys are joking but Elon is going to ruin porn sites next. Let’s see who has the last laugh then.

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        10 months ago

        The only way he could ruin porn sites was if the site’s content were replaced with only videos of Elon gyrating his hips to Eye of the Tiger, while wearing one of those Borat bathing suits, never breaking eye contact with the camera.

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    10 months ago

    …and breaks it on privacy-preserving browsers

    win-win I guess

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    10 months ago

    We’ll definitely start calling it X now, definitely.

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      10 months ago

      We should!

      Stop humouring the assholes that are still on that bigoted network.

      Every time someone calls it twitter, don’t give them the satisfaction of disassociating themselves from Musky’s X.

      Oh so you’re an X’er. You like to Xeet a lot eh?

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        10 months ago

        Honestly, I’d actually love to see some rando grab the domain and rebuild the site as it was before Musk, or turn it into a Mastodon instance. Not because I enjoyed pre-musk Twitter, but purely because it would piss Musk off to have to compete.

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        10 months ago

        Also it would me a massive global security issue if allowed to fall on malicious hands. I mean, other than the CEO’s.

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          What’s funny is that it’s also probably an internal security risk as well. I mean who knows, there’s probably at least one of their internal servers that still accepts credentials or keys from the dead domain. Not to mention their emails probably aren’t transferred.

          All of that could be fixed but you’d have to, ya know, not fire your programmers.

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    10 months ago

    The thing that makes me most sad is that the old Twitter is genuinely why I have the career and connections I do today. Now I can’t even stand opening the site.

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      10 months ago

      I feel incredibly bad for small creators that still rely on it for an audience and can’t simply afford to market themselves without it.

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      When the business fails and is eventually sold again, it will be changed back to Twitter.

      Then again perhaps he won’t ever sell it unless he goes completely broke. Just prolonging the damage he does to society as long as he possibly can.

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        10 months ago

        If he’s spent $44 Billion on it, you can rest assure he’s not letting it go that easily unless he sees more than half of that come back from a buyer. And the only way he’ll see that money is if Apple or Microsoft will bother with it, which they won’t.

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          10 months ago

          It wasn’t his money.

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    10 months ago

    Pretty funny that it took that long. Expertly executed rebrand.

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      10 months ago

      do you mean Xpertly Xecuted

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      10 months ago

      The Twitter bird isnt dead, it’s just pining for the fjords