I don’t use it, but i’ll forever call it Twitter.

  • @rekorse@lemmy.world
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    14 months ago

    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?

    • @pyre@lemmy.world
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      34 months ago

      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.

      • @rekorse@lemmy.world
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        14 months ago

        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 .