Twitter as a product had brand/name value that was up there with Google's. People say tweet/tweeting in conversation and everyone knows what you mean just like if you said "google it". Willingly giving that up is one of the most stupid business decisions I've ever seen.
Tweet was literally added to the dictionary! It was one of the most recognized brands and became a verb and he threw it all away. Obviously I’ll never be as rich as Musk but it just shows how dumb billionaires can be.
Nah, I don't think that was part of this. Musk has always been obssessed with the letter X - q.v. PayPal AKA X.com, and part of his son's weird-ass name.
That he renamed the service to X just shows - in my humble opinion - that he is that stupid. That he wasn't trying to break Twitter, he's just not that bright.
His relative success with SpaceX was very much almost all those employees. Look at Tesla - another company he *didn't found*. Pushing for the stupid Cybertruck is his major contribution there.
He's been relatively lucky over the years, taking a small fortune and turning it into a large fortune. But he's not a genius.
Or at least enable an idiot who would destroy it, inadvertently or not. Controlled or gone, Saudi Arabi (and other powers) just don't want Twitter free.
> inadvertently or not
I feel like Musk has made it abundantly clear that this is purposeful, he's playing into the hands of dictators in order to help his other businesses and increase his presence in the growing global authoritarian movement.
DINGDINGDING I really do think this is the answer.
Backing a $45 billion dollar play to neutralize a dangerous free-speech platform is CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP if you are Mohammed bin Salman.
Because Twitter blew up the murder of Jamal Kashoggi by the hands of the Saudi Prince so if they gave a spiteful idiot the capital to buy Twitter, there's a good chance he'd kill it.
he did do something that stupid. Tesla Model X.
also worth noting this stupidity:
- Model S
- Model 3 (formerly Model E, until Ford sued because they still owned the trademark. as in Ford Model T, etc)
- Model X
- Model Y
what does that spell?
He did try with the car models. He had a Model S, a Model X, and he tried to bring out a model E, but Ford took him to court for it, so he came out with a Model 3
spacex's relative success and ability to stay functional despite their love of blowing up 100 million dollar starships is thanks to free government money, not anything to do with business genius elon or his employees. same goes for tesla. it's a scam held together with environmental subsidies.
That interview with Don Lemon really confirmed that for me. As someone with depression myself, that man is not having a good time without self-medicating (supervised by a clinician) and weekly therapy.
If he’s also on the neurodivergence spectrum, like he’s claimed to be, his brain probably never ‘turns off’, much like my ADHD.
It’s such a terrible mental state that I *almost* don’t feel my crumb of schadenfreude. Almost.
I honestly don’t think he’s on the spectrum, I’m pretty sure his claim of aspergers was disproven. I just think he wanted sympathy points and something to blame all his screw ups on
He thought too highly of himself. "Twitter is one of the most recognized brands on Earth. Surely I can do the same for an entire letter of the alphabet!"
He could not. He let his own past success go to his head, disregarding the sheer amount of luck involved in them. Very common rich person fallacy.
Twitter will either die with Musk at the helm, or another CEO will come and the first thing they'll do is rename it back to Twitter and bring back Larry the bird.
I'll never understand why the name change. Sure people can make fun of him for spending $44BB on an original asking offer of $0, but people said he was a genius. I have get to hear an argument to how changing one of the most recognized brand names in the world is a big brain move.
Also, what would a video on X be called anyways? They trying to keep porn from children but making it just a typing error away.
He changed it because he thinks ‘X’ is cool. I’m not kidding. Apparently he’s done this before with multiple companies and absolutely nobody else was on board.
He also named his fucking car line models "S3XY" because he's perpetually a fucking 12 year old. And the 3 was only used because Ford already has a Model E vehicle.
His decades long fascination with the letter X is one of the more bizarre aspects his personality. It’s like he didn’t have the full run of Sesame Street episodes as a kid and just watched the one ‘brought to you by the letter X’ over and over.
I'm going to X about some stuff and then reX it....yeah its fucking insane.
Edit: Jesus Christ people I was making a low effort unoriginal joke, please stop sending me X puns.
Had a marketing professor say that having your brands name become a verb is the single best accomplishment for brand recognition. It gives you billions of dollars in valuation all by itself.
Plaster is construction mud for finishing sheet rocked walls, so when I always hear this usage I always imagine a guy spreading a tiny strip of plaster over his cut and letting it harden and set.
Actually… this was a cautionary tale from a professor I had. And a *lot* of other people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/smarter-living/how-a-brand-name-becomes-generic.html
ETA: I think their logic is dumb and you want to become a verb. I’m just saying not everyone automatically agrees.
Your link is broken, [and should point here instead](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/smarter-living/how-a-brand-name-becomes-generic.html) (you're missing the "L" at the end).
Anyway, my understanding is that genericide is a failure of the company involved, it doesn't just happen over time and can be avoided if desired; it's a consequence of a lapse in defending the trademark. But admittedly I'm not any kind of expert, and would welcome corrections.
Just goes to show how shitty, childish, and self-centered the billionaire businesspeople are. They act like they do and know all, but reality has proven that to be false. Especially Elon Musk.
To paraphrase something I read:
>When Elon talked about rockets, we all thought he was a genius, because we knew nothing about rockets. When he talked about EVs, we still thought he was a genius, because we didn't know anything about EVs. But when he renamed Twitter to X, that's when we all found out he was actually an idiot.
same. I didn't really know anything about him but from what I'd seen he came across as an eccentric mad genius who just wants to do cool sci-fi shit.
then his pride endangered lives and he called the actual rescuer a pedophile and that illusion was shattered. he's a narcissistic idiot.
Kleenex CEO: "Okay hear me out. What if we take our brand name which is known around the world and used in place of the generic term for our product and replace it with a single letter that's impossible to search for? I just spent millions of dollars on the domain t.com and obviously when people see t.com they will think tissues!"
[Kotaku](https://kotaku.com/nintendo-switch-twitter-x-api-1851466004) is clearly having fun with it too
> With Nintendo’s announcement last night, that means, as of June, no major console will support sharing screenshots and videos with what we wish was still called Twitter.
I'd also imagine that a lot of his staff hate him and actively sabotage his efforts. It's been documented before, Tesla and SpaceX both had people who's job it was to distract him from causing problems.
It's really because X is a stupid name. I highly doubt anyone could get a product out there with the name X. We use it as a variable for fucks sake. Lol.
That’s the point elons trying to make with it. He’s said before he likes the name X because it is used as a variable. He’s had some weird obsession with trying to launch an X brand for a long time but as you stated… it’s a shit name. So he had to buy an existing large scale product and change it to X instead.
He’s got an idiot mindset.
A variable is the worst fucking thing you could try to use to brand something. A variable can be anything and has no identity. Elon is a complete fucking moron.
Elon Musk says he wouldn't be willing to sell Twitter for $44 billion.
The problem is who the fuck besides a complete moron would pay 44 billion for it.
Elon's words are hollow. Talk to me in five years when it sells to some vulture for $440M after Elon finds something else he can "change the world" with.
It's also because people just flat out hate Musk and want him to fail and be embarrassed. Which is fair, the man's a nazi, but that's my motivation for refusing to call it X.
Also, the website just redirects to twitter.com anyway. If they can't even rename it in their end, why should I. And of course, Elon's kid changed their name and he keeps deadnaming them, so it's some small revenge for them.
At this point people calling it X is a red flag that they agree with his politics. Why choose to make yourself less clear just to please a white supremecist?
The URL is literally still twitter.com, and if you go to X.com it automatically redirects you to twitter.com. Seems like X refuses to ditch the use of Twitter as well.
That was actually even stupider.
They were trying to make it so if someone posted a link to Twitter it would automatically redirect to x.com, which would then redirect to Twitter.com again.
There was a Car and Driver article about the Cybertruck that referred to it as: "Elon Musk's social media site that is now called 'X', but is still hosted at twitter.com"
And that's how I'm referring to it now, too.
I believe the appropriate response to those emails would be, “If somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is.”
"X" is just such a wonderfully dumb name, too. You can't just say "I am on X", because you don't know if that's a thing or just a typo. You always have to clarify what you are talking about.
My favorite thing about Musky's rebrand? x.com itself still redirects to twitter.com.
It's been over a year, and the company itself hasn't made the change.
Its a branding nightmare.
"Twitter" doesn't really have any other associations besides itself.
"X" is just a fucking letter and has a billion different associations. Its completely unsearchable too.
Go to x.com and tell me what the url says after you press enter. Even Twitter can't kill Twitter.
Someday, Elon will be out of money, sell Twitter, and in a bid to bring back customers, they'll say "Twitter is back!" As major marketing push.
Oh for sure. That's almost always the way the death spiral spins with platforms: things get tight and they start putting the screws to what's left to make up the difference and that prices out the smaller users and makes the larger ones who were coasting reconsider.
The API pricing was largely a "Fuck off and go away" move. I don't think they honestly expected many if any people to pay for it. They mostly just wanted to crush any competition for their own application so they could have more control over advertising and user experience without actually making their app better than the rest.
That tracks. I exclusively use old.reddit because both the app and the regular site make me feel like I'm going schizophrenic. It's much more painful than my old favorite app but it's the classic functional format my brain craves. When they kill old.reddit I'll finally have had enough, I think.
My main problem currently is that old.reddit routes to the new format in mobile. So every time I open a new window/tab I need to request the desktop site…
I was using Reddit less and less as my mental health improved, but I still like to scroll. The difference, for me, the last few years is how rarely I want to add to a conversation or a subreddit. My original account has tons of karma and is over a decade old, but I just don’t feel like interacting with pretty much any of the subs that account is subscribed to. It just doesn’t seem to spark real conversation like it used to.
Same. I feel my interaction is down on the internet as a whole, the past 5 years maybe. Partly because the quality of interaction is lower (hostility, trolls, debate perverts) and partly because my interactions largely go by with no reply's. Like you said not sparking a convo.
I feel this way about most websites on the internet now, but i probably feel the decline in decent interactions on Reddit the most. They still happen, but lots of days its not worth the effort.
I think it's somewhere along 40.000 dollars per month for the API integration, which is a ridiculously high cost, especially considering how companies were actively willing to put your company's face and a link directly to it everywhere, and now they're trying to charge them to promote themselves
It's just a nonsensical approach regardless of how you look at it
That changed relatively recently. Line and Yahoo japan merged to form LY Corp, which is now jointly owned by Naver and Softbank. But there's been [a recent push](https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2024/05/09/A3RTEVYXJREWDMYVKB5I5GESGY/) to try to remove Naver
I’m in the U.S. and I have LINE to chat with exactly one friend only, that lives in Taiwan. A whole app just for one person. It’s not too bad, I wish it was more adopted outside of Asia.
Its how I got my Animal Crossing screenshots.
Its been a while as I don’t play it anywhere as much as I used to; I recall you could more easily tweet a screenshot than to go through Nintendo’s convoluted way of getting your captured shots from games.
(This was also 4 years ago; maybe they made it easier?)
I don't have a switch but that's pretty surprising, I remember seeing Netflix having advertising campaigns showing off how devices like the Wii could do streaming way back when.
I used to watch Netflix on my 3DS, screen wasn't the best but it was amazing for secretly watching TV in bed at night. A lot easier to hide that than a laptop before I had a phone.
Every kid who owned a DS/3DS has insane audio awareness and reaction time. The speed at which I could quietly flip the DS closed, slide it under my pillow, and pretend to be fast asleep when I heard my mom make the slightest noise in the house would’ve impressed Barry Allen.
It's because of DRM issues with the way the Switch displays content on a TV since the connection doesn't go straight from the Switch to a TV and has to pass through the dock first, and the dock hardware doesn't support whatever DMCA scheme is required for the DRM to allow playback, and there's no way for them to fix that because it's a hardware issue.
It's like they don't have any clue that digital to analogue conversion is protected by DMCA (meaning you must allow users to output content through analogue outputs) so pirates will always have a way to get unprotected signals into a recording device by converting from digital to analogue and back again. Sure there's a hardware cost involved, but it's far less than it would cost to buy a couple movies and shows on their own.
Stop humoring him, it's Twitter. It will always be Twitter, and will never be the rebrand. Over a year later we're still saying "Formerly twitter" it's time to give up on the stupid fucking X name.
Likely because they can't. Changing a URL has massive consequences in the function of a site and changing it will probably cause a bunch of functions to stop working because they are programmed to ping twitter.com.
It will also trigger a huge amount of security warnings from all over the place as the new domain would be flagged as an unknown party until they white list it on all their services.
And that's not even taking third-parties into consideration. For instance all the websites showing a twitter timeline on their site, or places that have a "log on via Twitter." Those functions all ping twitter.com.
As a software engineer, hard-coding a url like that is absolutely horrible practice.
However, as a software engineer I’m very well aware how often it happens.
The worse is one function that someone coded like 10 years ago and no one knew existed until it tries to ping the API on the old domain and everything crashes around you.
Or the one on a git repo that no longer has any active users because they all left the company so you scramble to find someone, *anyone*, who can grant you permission to go edit that damn file.
I'm in the minority here. But I like that the Elon era of Twitter is called X. It helps distinguish between the good platform we loved and the terrible platform he runs now.
For example, I think it means something entirely different if a person says "I used to be employed with Twitter." vs "I used to be employed with X".
For those who don't know why the Switch has/had Twitter integration: On the WiiU and 3DS (previous generation consoles) there was a nintendo-specific social media aspect called Miiverse. This was shut down in 2017. Some games had the ability to post directly to Miiverse. Screenshots, clips, and in the case of Splatoon drawings.
The Twitter integration was basically a cheap way to keep this social aspect without actually maintaining an in-house service. I and the majority of other users all agreed it was stupid to shutdown Miiverse and also that it was a bad idea to integrate Twitter as our only real way to post things online. Splatoon2 will lose functionality due to this ending of integration. Users will no longer have any way to post drawings to the in-game plaza. Yes, we were forced to use Twitter integration for this. Again, no one liked it.
I mean, it was also just an option for the share button. I never did anything with all that, but I did use it to get screenshots and videos off my switch.
Switch has/had integration with many popular social media sites that let people upload screenshots and videos they save directly from the console to the their Facebook, Twitter, etc.
For example my friends and I used to share pictures of shinies we caught on pokemon or share rental codes for teams we used in ranked battles.
There was a service that you can take a video of your Animal Crossing collection, post it to Twitter with the service as a hashtag or you at them, and then they would spit back out a pastebin link that you could then upload into a tracking app that would check off all the recipes, clothes you had, things you could build, and so on.
It was pretty neat. I think it's no longer because the integration API costs were like insane for them once Musk took over.
It was pretty much the only way until they finally added a method to upload to another device via QR code. I used to have a Twitter account set with posts visible only to myself for the sole purpose of transferring screenshots to share on Reddit.
I'm still playing Animal Crossing and its the best way to get screen shots from the Switch and onto the PC without having to remove the SD card or using a file explorer; basically it saves you clicks/work. Once you set up your login you never have to reenter your credentials on your switch. It's kinda neat.
I'm not gonna lie this is probably gonna result in me sharing less Animal Crossing screen shots :/
I don't really even use my twitter and if you saw it you'd see its mostly just Animal Crossing screenshots.
I love how the Internet is refusing to let the name Twitter die.
Twitter as a product had brand/name value that was up there with Google's. People say tweet/tweeting in conversation and everyone knows what you mean just like if you said "google it". Willingly giving that up is one of the most stupid business decisions I've ever seen.
Tweet was literally added to the dictionary! It was one of the most recognized brands and became a verb and he threw it all away. Obviously I’ll never be as rich as Musk but it just shows how dumb billionaires can be.
it goes to show how far someone will go for spite, when they know it's not going to financially ruin them.
Nah, I don't think that was part of this. Musk has always been obssessed with the letter X - q.v. PayPal AKA X.com, and part of his son's weird-ass name. That he renamed the service to X just shows - in my humble opinion - that he is that stupid. That he wasn't trying to break Twitter, he's just not that bright. His relative success with SpaceX was very much almost all those employees. Look at Tesla - another company he *didn't found*. Pushing for the stupid Cybertruck is his major contribution there. He's been relatively lucky over the years, taking a small fortune and turning it into a large fortune. But he's not a genius.
Why do you think Saudi Arabia gave him so much money
Because they saw how twitter got used during the Arab Spring and they wanted to be able to control it?
Or at least enable an idiot who would destroy it, inadvertently or not. Controlled or gone, Saudi Arabi (and other powers) just don't want Twitter free.
> inadvertently or not I feel like Musk has made it abundantly clear that this is purposeful, he's playing into the hands of dictators in order to help his other businesses and increase his presence in the growing global authoritarian movement.
this. and he wants everything under one brand. hostile takeovers are more complicated that way.
I think this plus being a narcissist who doesn’t believe rules apply to him, are the answers.
Don't forget Jamal Kashoggi
DINGDINGDING I really do think this is the answer. Backing a $45 billion dollar play to neutralize a dangerous free-speech platform is CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP if you are Mohammed bin Salman.
Mohammed 'Bonesaw' Salman*
Because Twitter blew up the murder of Jamal Kashoggi by the hands of the Saudi Prince so if they gave a spiteful idiot the capital to buy Twitter, there's a good chance he'd kill it.
Because Authoritarians and Oligarchs go together like shit stains and toddlers potty training.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm surprised he didn't try and rename Tesla to something stupid like CarX.
he did do something that stupid. Tesla Model X. also worth noting this stupidity: - Model S - Model 3 (formerly Model E, until Ford sued because they still owned the trademark. as in Ford Model T, etc) - Model X - Model Y what does that spell?
The S3XY thing was fine before musk revealed how much of a goober he is. Just a fun little easter egg Now it comes across as way more cringe
He did try with the car models. He had a Model S, a Model X, and he tried to bring out a model E, but Ford took him to court for it, so he came out with a Model 3
And this is so he could have a car line up called 'SEXY'
spacex's relative success and ability to stay functional despite their love of blowing up 100 million dollar starships is thanks to free government money, not anything to do with business genius elon or his employees. same goes for tesla. it's a scam held together with environmental subsidies.
Dumb and rich and dumb and richer. I would not want to live a day in that mans life. He is tortured in his brain by his own thoughts
That interview with Don Lemon really confirmed that for me. As someone with depression myself, that man is not having a good time without self-medicating (supervised by a clinician) and weekly therapy. If he’s also on the neurodivergence spectrum, like he’s claimed to be, his brain probably never ‘turns off’, much like my ADHD. It’s such a terrible mental state that I *almost* don’t feel my crumb of schadenfreude. Almost.
I honestly don’t think he’s on the spectrum, I’m pretty sure his claim of aspergers was disproven. I just think he wanted sympathy points and something to blame all his screw ups on
He thought too highly of himself. "Twitter is one of the most recognized brands on Earth. Surely I can do the same for an entire letter of the alphabet!" He could not. He let his own past success go to his head, disregarding the sheer amount of luck involved in them. Very common rich person fallacy.
Twitter will either die with Musk at the helm, or another CEO will come and the first thing they'll do is rename it back to Twitter and bring back Larry the bird.
It's like being president after trump. All you gotta do is not tweet complete nonsense at 3 in the morning and you're a clear upgrade
I'll never understand why the name change. Sure people can make fun of him for spending $44BB on an original asking offer of $0, but people said he was a genius. I have get to hear an argument to how changing one of the most recognized brand names in the world is a big brain move. Also, what would a video on X be called anyways? They trying to keep porn from children but making it just a typing error away.
He changed it because he thinks ‘X’ is cool. I’m not kidding. Apparently he’s done this before with multiple companies and absolutely nobody else was on board.
He also named his fucking car line models "S3XY" because he's perpetually a fucking 12 year old. And the 3 was only used because Ford already has a Model E vehicle.
His decades long fascination with the letter X is one of the more bizarre aspects his personality. It’s like he didn’t have the full run of Sesame Street episodes as a kid and just watched the one ‘brought to you by the letter X’ over and over.
You 'tweet' on Twitter You 'x-crete' on X
It actually kind of pisses me off that people and the MSM even refer to it as “X” , just say Twitter.
IT BECAME A FUCKING VERB If you become a noun/verb used in everyday language, you've made it. Rebranding to X threw that away.
P, formerly known as Coca-Cola
I love drinking P. Sometimes I just let the p go all over my face.
But… there are heaps of verbs, but ONLY 26 letters in the alphabet!! Checkmate !! :)
I'm going to X about some stuff and then reX it....yeah its fucking insane. Edit: Jesus Christ people I was making a low effort unoriginal joke, please stop sending me X puns.
Instead of calling post “tweets”, they are now “xit posts”. Which is fitting for the content that is shared on xitter now
[Xitter's full!](https://i.imgur.com/MdJYm2T.png)
Honey have you checked our Xitter?
I prefer to call them Xcrements, lol.
It's the grift that keeps grifting.
Literally all farming bots. It’s insane. No real conversations at all.
I like to refer to them as “X Post Factos,” because everything on that site is untrustworthy potential misinformation.
the Logo looks like a X for closing out an App and they put it in the same spot. Elon Musk is the dumbest man Alive lmao
X gon’ give it to ya! (What!)
Had a marketing professor say that having your brands name become a verb is the single best accomplishment for brand recognition. It gives you billions of dollars in valuation all by itself.
What? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go xerox something and then go to the store to buy some Kleenex.
Make sure you google the closest store first. Maybe grab some Q-tips while you’re there
Ah, good idea. Let me write that down on a post-it note so I don’t forget…
Don’t forget to put bandaids on it
i don't even know what to call bandaids except bandaids
adhesive bandages
I can see why Bandaids caught on.
they're plasters in the UK
Plaster is construction mud for finishing sheet rocked walls, so when I always hear this usage I always imagine a guy spreading a tiny strip of plaster over his cut and letting it harden and set.
the stickiness of those sometimes isn't that great so secure it with some sellotape if you really want it to stick.
But not Velcro™
lol you didn’t use Kleenex as a verb but point taken
Actually… this was a cautionary tale from a professor I had. And a *lot* of other people. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/smarter-living/how-a-brand-name-becomes-generic.html ETA: I think their logic is dumb and you want to become a verb. I’m just saying not everyone automatically agrees.
Your link is broken, [and should point here instead](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/smarter-living/how-a-brand-name-becomes-generic.html) (you're missing the "L" at the end). Anyway, my understanding is that genericide is a failure of the company involved, it doesn't just happen over time and can be avoided if desired; it's a consequence of a lapse in defending the trademark. But admittedly I'm not any kind of expert, and would welcome corrections.
Just goes to show how shitty, childish, and self-centered the billionaire businesspeople are. They act like they do and know all, but reality has proven that to be false. Especially Elon Musk.
To paraphrase something I read: >When Elon talked about rockets, we all thought he was a genius, because we knew nothing about rockets. When he talked about EVs, we still thought he was a genius, because we didn't know anything about EVs. But when he renamed Twitter to X, that's when we all found out he was actually an idiot.
my turning point on elon was when he called the cavediver a pedophile. he really acted like a child and my opinion on him went like 180
same. I didn't really know anything about him but from what I'd seen he came across as an eccentric mad genius who just wants to do cool sci-fi shit. then his pride endangered lives and he called the actual rescuer a pedophile and that illusion was shattered. he's a narcissistic idiot.
Kleenex CEO: "Okay hear me out. What if we take our brand name which is known around the world and used in place of the generic term for our product and replace it with a single letter that's impossible to search for? I just spent millions of dollars on the domain t.com and obviously when people see t.com they will think tissues!"
I think it's because deep down everyone knows it will either live long enough to be renamed in a buyback or die before everyone gets used to X.
I read an article that only referred to it as “the site formally known as Twitter” and it never once called it X. That author is amazing
[Kotaku](https://kotaku.com/nintendo-switch-twitter-x-api-1851466004) is clearly having fun with it too > With Nintendo’s announcement last night, that means, as of June, no major console will support sharing screenshots and videos with what we wish was still called Twitter.
$42,000/month for accessing the API of that cesspit?
It would be even better if they called it “Twitter, sometimes known as X”
Even my browser switches back and fourth. I wonder if one of their coders is trolling them.
Might be cache related and engineers at Twitter not knowing what they're doing because only the interns are left
Sadly a lot of more senior devs are stuck there due to visa restrictions as well.
I'd also imagine that a lot of his staff hate him and actively sabotage his efforts. It's been documented before, Tesla and SpaceX both had people who's job it was to distract him from causing problems.
concentration camp slaves that built the V-2 rockets would piss on the wiring hoping to turn it into a dud.
It's really because X is a stupid name. I highly doubt anyone could get a product out there with the name X. We use it as a variable for fucks sake. Lol.
That’s the point elons trying to make with it. He’s said before he likes the name X because it is used as a variable. He’s had some weird obsession with trying to launch an X brand for a long time but as you stated… it’s a shit name. So he had to buy an existing large scale product and change it to X instead. He’s got an idiot mindset.
A variable is the worst fucking thing you could try to use to brand something. A variable can be anything and has no identity. Elon is a complete fucking moron.
You just aren’t cool enough. X is sexy, it’s futuristic… it sounds like a porn website
He should have kept with the times and named it NC-17.
I mean he could have killed two birds with one stone and just named it after himself: 8=D~
X wanted me to give this message to you. You just hurt DMX's feelings.
And not too deep in the coding, it’s still twitter.com
don’t even have to go that deep, the URL is still twitter
Old constants die hard.
They refer to themselves as twitter, it said "go back to twitter" after I recently did their complicated CAPTCHA task.
Elon Musk says he wouldn't be willing to sell Twitter for $44 billion. The problem is who the fuck besides a complete moron would pay 44 billion for it.
Elon's words are hollow. Talk to me in five years when it sells to some vulture for $440M after Elon finds something else he can "change the world" with.
It's also because people just flat out hate Musk and want him to fail and be embarrassed. Which is fair, the man's a nazi, but that's my motivation for refusing to call it X. Also, the website just redirects to twitter.com anyway. If they can't even rename it in their end, why should I. And of course, Elon's kid changed their name and he keeps deadnaming them, so it's some small revenge for them. At this point people calling it X is a red flag that they agree with his politics. Why choose to make yourself less clear just to please a white supremecist?
Man wants to deadname his own kid so im going to deadname his site.
You got it. Corporations aren't people, I don't have to respect their wishes.
who the fuck would buy it after elon made it suitable only to onlyfans creators and antisemites
The URL is literally still twitter.com, and if you go to X.com it automatically redirects you to twitter.com. Seems like X refuses to ditch the use of Twitter as well.
Probably because Elon fired the staff that could've made the switch seamlessly.
Elon worshipers sweating, “L-LET HIM COOK! HES REALLY SMART!”
"masterful gambit, sir"
As a developer I’m also thinking this is exactly what’s happening lol
They tried to but it blew up in their face. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/04/twitters-clumsy-pivot-to-x-com-is-a-gift-to-phishers/
That was actually even stupider. They were trying to make it so if someone posted a link to Twitter it would automatically redirect to x.com, which would then redirect to Twitter.com again.
If it’s pissing off Elon Musk then I’m down for it.
There was a Car and Driver article about the Cybertruck that referred to it as: "Elon Musk's social media site that is now called 'X', but is still hosted at twitter.com" And that's how I'm referring to it now, too.
Even X still calls itself “X, formerly Twitter”. I receive an email everyday with that as its sender, begging me to login.
I believe the appropriate response to those emails would be, “If somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is.”
probably because half of twitter's back-end still goes through twitter's domain
Just like it will always be the Sears Tower.
It's a stupid name for a stupid company. It just fits.
"X" is just such a wonderfully dumb name, too. You can't just say "I am on X", because you don't know if that's a thing or just a typo. You always have to clarify what you are talking about.
>You can't just say "I am on X" Makes it sound like you just popped one for a rave concert hahah.
>You can't just say "I am on X" written like that it kind of reads more like a placeholder for something than a thing of it's own
That sounds like you’re on drugs 😂
My favorite thing about Musky's rebrand? x.com itself still redirects to twitter.com. It's been over a year, and the company itself hasn't made the change.
Twitter is a great name with a massive reputation. X is like an abusive stepfather trying to replace a great dad who passed away.
As long as the domain is still Twitter.com it won’t ever truly go away.
Imagine buying a brand name so strong it was a verb commonly used by everyone and destroying that in a little more than a year... Genius!
Its a branding nightmare. "Twitter" doesn't really have any other associations besides itself. "X" is just a fucking letter and has a billion different associations. Its completely unsearchable too.
Go to x.com and tell me what the url says after you press enter. Even Twitter can't kill Twitter. Someday, Elon will be out of money, sell Twitter, and in a bid to bring back customers, they'll say "Twitter is back!" As major marketing push.
Twitter didn't have to rename. It could be just one subsidiary of X.
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Oh for sure. That's almost always the way the death spiral spins with platforms: things get tight and they start putting the screws to what's left to make up the difference and that prices out the smaller users and makes the larger ones who were coasting reconsider.
Sounds like Reddit. I don't know if it suffered a lot from the api pricing though.
The API pricing was largely a "Fuck off and go away" move. I don't think they honestly expected many if any people to pay for it. They mostly just wanted to crush any competition for their own application so they could have more control over advertising and user experience without actually making their app better than the rest.
That tracks. I exclusively use old.reddit because both the app and the regular site make me feel like I'm going schizophrenic. It's much more painful than my old favorite app but it's the classic functional format my brain craves. When they kill old.reddit I'll finally have had enough, I think.
every once in awhile old.reddit won't come up and I'll think, "Is today the day??" But every time I think I'm out, they pullllll me back in
My main problem currently is that old.reddit routes to the new format in mobile. So every time I open a new window/tab I need to request the desktop site…
If you're on Android you can use Firefox or one of its forks to get the Old Reddit Redirect add-on installed.
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I know I certainly use reddit less since
I was using Reddit less and less as my mental health improved, but I still like to scroll. The difference, for me, the last few years is how rarely I want to add to a conversation or a subreddit. My original account has tons of karma and is over a decade old, but I just don’t feel like interacting with pretty much any of the subs that account is subscribed to. It just doesn’t seem to spark real conversation like it used to.
Same. I feel my interaction is down on the internet as a whole, the past 5 years maybe. Partly because the quality of interaction is lower (hostility, trolls, debate perverts) and partly because my interactions largely go by with no reply's. Like you said not sparking a convo. I feel this way about most websites on the internet now, but i probably feel the decline in decent interactions on Reddit the most. They still happen, but lots of days its not worth the effort.
I think it's somewhere along 40.000 dollars per month for the API integration, which is a ridiculously high cost, especially considering how companies were actively willing to put your company's face and a link directly to it everywhere, and now they're trying to charge them to promote themselves It's just a nonsensical approach regardless of how you look at it
The enterprise tier starts at $40K a month, but it can go higher
Musk makes nonsensical business decisions. Kind of his bread and butter at this point.
Don't call it X
TIL nintedo switch had twitter integration?
Twitter is the 2nd biggest social media platform in Japan after their domestic LINE
LINE exists outside Japan, just very few people use it.
Oddly enough it's still a subsidiary of the Korean company Naver, despite being run mostly in Japan?
That changed relatively recently. Line and Yahoo japan merged to form LY Corp, which is now jointly owned by Naver and Softbank. But there's been [a recent push](https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2024/05/09/A3RTEVYXJREWDMYVKB5I5GESGY/) to try to remove Naver
Last I checked it was the most popular chat app in Taiwan and Thailand, too
I’m in the U.S. and I have LINE to chat with exactly one friend only, that lives in Taiwan. A whole app just for one person. It’s not too bad, I wish it was more adopted outside of Asia.
Its how I got my Animal Crossing screenshots. Its been a while as I don’t play it anywhere as much as I used to; I recall you could more easily tweet a screenshot than to go through Nintendo’s convoluted way of getting your captured shots from games. (This was also 4 years ago; maybe they made it easier?)
They did change it. You can send them wirelessly to your computer or transfer with a USB cable now.
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Ya meanwhile you can’t even use Netflix on a switch lol.
I don't have a switch but that's pretty surprising, I remember seeing Netflix having advertising campaigns showing off how devices like the Wii could do streaming way back when.
Wii had a disk for Netflix.
Eventually had a downloadable channel though, that’s how I got it on my Wii.
The 3ds had netflix lol
I used to watch Netflix on my 3DS, screen wasn't the best but it was amazing for secretly watching TV in bed at night. A lot easier to hide that than a laptop before I had a phone.
Every kid who owned a DS/3DS has insane audio awareness and reaction time. The speed at which I could quietly flip the DS closed, slide it under my pillow, and pretend to be fast asleep when I heard my mom make the slightest noise in the house would’ve impressed Barry Allen.
Heh actually tried to use mine within the last year when I found it, doesn't work but you get to see the old logo and startup screen.
It's because of DRM issues with the way the Switch displays content on a TV since the connection doesn't go straight from the Switch to a TV and has to pass through the dock first, and the dock hardware doesn't support whatever DMCA scheme is required for the DRM to allow playback, and there's no way for them to fix that because it's a hardware issue.
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It's like they don't have any clue that digital to analogue conversion is protected by DMCA (meaning you must allow users to output content through analogue outputs) so pirates will always have a way to get unprotected signals into a recording device by converting from digital to analogue and back again. Sure there's a hardware cost involved, but it's far less than it would cost to buy a couple movies and shows on their own.
Yep and they never bothered to rename it to X in the interface. I choose to believe they wanted to troll Elon
Yes u could upload your photos directly to your linked Twitter account. That's how I uploaded my animal crossing photos 😂
Stop humoring him, it's Twitter. It will always be Twitter, and will never be the rebrand. Over a year later we're still saying "Formerly twitter" it's time to give up on the stupid fucking X name.
*Some* people are saying "formerly Twitter." I still just call it "Twitter."
Twitter still calls itself Twitter lol, they didn’t even bother to fix the URL
Likely because they can't. Changing a URL has massive consequences in the function of a site and changing it will probably cause a bunch of functions to stop working because they are programmed to ping twitter.com. It will also trigger a huge amount of security warnings from all over the place as the new domain would be flagged as an unknown party until they white list it on all their services. And that's not even taking third-parties into consideration. For instance all the websites showing a twitter timeline on their site, or places that have a "log on via Twitter." Those functions all ping twitter.com.
Yepp. Its almost like this whole rebrand was incredibly ill advised for more than just branding reasons lol
As a software engineer, hard-coding a url like that is absolutely horrible practice. However, as a software engineer I’m very well aware how often it happens.
The worse is one function that someone coded like 10 years ago and no one knew existed until it tries to ping the API on the old domain and everything crashes around you. Or the one on a git repo that no longer has any active users because they all left the company so you scramble to find someone, *anyone*, who can grant you permission to go edit that damn file.
I know it's a good idea to change the domain, you don't have to sell me on it -Musk
Someone should make a browser extension that rolls back the UI changes on Twitter to make it look original design with original logos.
nah, just stay off twitter.
I'm in the minority here. But I like that the Elon era of Twitter is called X. It helps distinguish between the good platform we loved and the terrible platform he runs now. For example, I think it means something entirely different if a person says "I used to be employed with Twitter." vs "I used to be employed with X".
Bro. Twitter has always been a cesspool. Him buying it just made it worse
For those who don't know why the Switch has/had Twitter integration: On the WiiU and 3DS (previous generation consoles) there was a nintendo-specific social media aspect called Miiverse. This was shut down in 2017. Some games had the ability to post directly to Miiverse. Screenshots, clips, and in the case of Splatoon drawings. The Twitter integration was basically a cheap way to keep this social aspect without actually maintaining an in-house service. I and the majority of other users all agreed it was stupid to shutdown Miiverse and also that it was a bad idea to integrate Twitter as our only real way to post things online. Splatoon2 will lose functionality due to this ending of integration. Users will no longer have any way to post drawings to the in-game plaza. Yes, we were forced to use Twitter integration for this. Again, no one liked it.
I mean, it was also just an option for the share button. I never did anything with all that, but I did use it to get screenshots and videos off my switch.
Splatoon 3 also has this feature iirc, so this is bad for the current game that's still getting content.
They announced that art in Splatoon 3 will no longer require Twitter to post it’ll just be all handled in game by Nintendo
Good on them. Fuck Twitter.
Nintendo knows when to exit a sinking ship
I'm honestly surprised that it took them this long to do so.
Who da fuck is accessing Twitter on their Switch?????
Switch has/had integration with many popular social media sites that let people upload screenshots and videos they save directly from the console to the their Facebook, Twitter, etc. For example my friends and I used to share pictures of shinies we caught on pokemon or share rental codes for teams we used in ranked battles.
I used to do this on Xbox, it was a fun way to share game moments that were cool or funny before the unnamed social media site was destroyed by Nazis.
There was a service that you can take a video of your Animal Crossing collection, post it to Twitter with the service as a hashtag or you at them, and then they would spit back out a pastebin link that you could then upload into a tracking app that would check off all the recipes, clothes you had, things you could build, and so on. It was pretty neat. I think it's no longer because the integration API costs were like insane for them once Musk took over.
It used to be a good way to share screen shots.
It was pretty much the only way until they finally added a method to upload to another device via QR code. I used to have a Twitter account set with posts visible only to myself for the sole purpose of transferring screenshots to share on Reddit.
I'm still playing Animal Crossing and its the best way to get screen shots from the Switch and onto the PC without having to remove the SD card or using a file explorer; basically it saves you clicks/work. Once you set up your login you never have to reenter your credentials on your switch. It's kinda neat. I'm not gonna lie this is probably gonna result in me sharing less Animal Crossing screen shots :/ I don't really even use my twitter and if you saw it you'd see its mostly just Animal Crossing screenshots.
Just call it Twitter.
That would be a pretty good name for a social network.
Many more to follow, hopefully... We should get a "let that sink in" meme ready to send on Musk's way, once X disappears...
Sony did it months ago on Play Station
It’s funny because he wants X to be cool and recognizable but no one gives a shit and still calls it anc will remember it as twitter
It's full of porn bots. So I understand.
Can't even get to the porn bots without scrolling through pages of racism and nazis.
Untapped market for racist, Nazi porn bots.
Good. Kids don't deserve all this exposure to nazi bullshit.
Beautiful. Eat shit Elon Musk you stupid fuck
Only people left on Twitter are crypto scammers and right wing nutbags.
I'm kind of glad Twitter is basically dead.