• Vaggumon
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    1291 year ago

    Twitter: The company owned by a transphobe, that changed it’s outside image and wants people to call it by a different name.

    • Ken27238OP
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      arguably the worse rebranding ever. the only thing that has changed is the logo and Elon saying “were not Twitter we’re now X”. Twitter branding is still all over twitter.com, it still called tweets, retweets. Hell, the terms of service are even using both twitter and X Corp.

      • @gsfraley
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        361 year ago

        Not to mention it’s still on twitter.com, and changing it to another domain is a borderline impossible amount of work to do for any social media site that size.

        • Ken27238OP
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          601 year ago

          I’m waiting for Elon to get rid of the twitter.com domain and forgetting to renew it, and someone swooping in and getting it. Because that’s something that would totally happen with his track record.

        • @hyorvenn
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          deleted by creator

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I just read an article saying Musk has bought xvideos.com. It didn’t say, but I’m guessing he means to turn it into something like YouTube. If so, that’s hilariously misguided.

          The man is a joke. As a designer who has done a fair amount of branding work, this is the dumbest rebranding attempt I’ve ever seen. I’ve dealt with some stubbornly clueless clients who had to be talked out of driving their brand off a cliff, but this is next level.

          • snooggums
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            101 year ago

            Musk buying xvideos is a meme, not a thing that happened, last I checked.

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              Oh shit, that’s hilarious, too. Someone must have taken it seriously, because the article made my news feed with no mention of it being a meme. He’s such a joke, that’s apparently plausible. I bought it, lol.

              e: thanks for the correction!

      • @[email protected]
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        131 year ago

        It used to be this social media site where you could write these notes that were short enough for blue birds to carry around to everyone.

      • Ibex
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        71 year ago

        It used to be this place where people would post funny stories or how to make crack in a microwave. Now it’s all politics and sexuality talk.

  • Die4Ever
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    381 year ago

    given how many ‘Twitter alternative’ services like Threads and Bluesky are cropping up

    I wish they would mention Mastodon lol

    • AnonTwo
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      191 year ago

      He set most of it on fire the moment he purchased it, since it wasn’t even really worth that.

  • Marxine
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    181 year ago

    Ruining a global social media platform, the speedrun

  • @[email protected]
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    131 year ago

    Reminds me of a quote from Suits, something along the lines of “I’m not blackmailing you, I’m extorting you.”