• @jerome
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    7711 months ago

    Reporting on some asshole’s sandbox doesn’t feel like news.

    • originalucifer
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      2011 months ago

      i could see this in mildlyinteresting or maybe funny, but definitely not technology

      • TimeSquirrel
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        “Elon musk does technology stuff, so it should go in /r/technology.”

        Sorry for haunting you with Redditisms.

  • halfempty
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    NYT should simply walk away from Xwitter. NPR did so with no apparent loss of viewership.

  • athos77
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    NPR says they didn’t lose any traffic when they left Twitter, the Times should leave too.

    • @paintbucketholder
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      3611 months ago

      At this point, one of the things keeping Twitter alive is that 99 percent of journalists and media outlets have refused to leave, despite all the evidence that there’s nothing to be gained for them on that platform.

      It’s just their own FOMO that keeps them there.

      I’d wish they’d follow the lead of those organizations who simply left, or, better yet, started up their own Mastodon instances.

      • roguetrick
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        I’m sure their social media managers are acting more on fear of losing employees than fear of missing out.

        It’s hard to argue that switching to some platform they’re not familiar with and will likely have even less of an impact still continue to justify their employment.

  • @tabular
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    4111 months ago

    No one owns “X”, that’s a letter. Call it Twitter.

    • @HollandJim
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      511 months ago

      A little while back, someone here called it “Xitter”. I’d say that fits nicely.

      • SkaveRat
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        1411 months ago

        I’m going to deadname Twitter, as long as musk deadnames his daughter

  • @fubo
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    3111 months ago

    Stop playing with the fascist, folks. The fascist is not playing. They never are.

  • @[email protected]
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    2511 months ago

    My Tesla lease can’t end soon enough. I’m so fucking sick of Elon. I momentarily hoped the board would remove him…but, nope. Get fucked Elon.

  • @Dieterlan
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    511 months ago

    Did they change their profile picture? That was the cause the last time I saw an article like this

    • FaceDeer
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      Also, did anyone forget that Elon Musk owns X? Is it really necessary to throw “Elon Musk’s” into every headline? I somehow doubt he’s sitting at some kind of master control console laughing maniacally and pulling a lever to make the verification badge go away every time the Times changes their profile picture.

      • @ArtVandelay
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        811 months ago

        It’s a shitty SEO tactic mixed with the Pavlovian response to the man’s name.