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Twitter: The company owned by a transphobe, that changed it's outside image and wants people to call it by a different name.
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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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.
How can a Twitter be an X? it was born a biological bird, not a letter
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.
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.
That would be hilarious! Even better if it redirected to a Lemmy instance.
Maybe a mastodon instance will be more apropriate
There's a 30 day grace period on renewals before someone else can pick them up. I doubt even Elon is that dumb.
It happened to google.com before, so I definitely wouldn't put it past Elon or the skeleton crew keeping Twitter alive.
Hotmail back in the day as well.
You underestimate his power.
I doubt even Elon is that dumb.
RemindMe! 8 hours
Adding to my TODO list. Thanks for the great idea! I may own Twitter soon, which means I'll be filthy rich. Noice!
Redirecting twitter.com to another domain is not an impossible amount of work. What takes time is changing every references to the old domain name.
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.
Musk buying xvideos is a meme, not a thing that happened, last I checked.
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!
There's a lot of bots that scrape comment sections to create shitty news articles.
What’s Twitter?
Crappy version of Mastodon.
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.
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.
And bigotry. Don’t forget the bigotry.
given how many ‘Twitter alternative’ services like Threads and Bluesky are cropping up
I wish they would mention Mastodon lol
Mastodon isn't likely to buy advertising space on the verge.
Dingdingding
Dude is setting $40b on fire right in front of our eyes.
He set most of it on fire the moment he purchased it, since it wasn't even really worth that.
Ruining a global social media platform, the speedrun
Reminds me of a quote from Suits, something along the lines of "I'm not blackmailing you, I'm extorting you."
"Goad"? Shit's straight up extortion.
Twitter is a bully.
"Give us $6000 or we'll let counterfeiters impersonate you."
Sincerely, X
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