So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX **Threadbans in OP**

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895894#Comment_120895894

Apologies, you should be able to read it here

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1683808576328937472.html

blackwhite

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120896217#Comment_120896217

To be honest, how many things by now can be deceived by the following quote:

Advisors express concern over …………. as a brand. Elon loves it.

Daddy’s little rich boy isn’t used to having people around him say no. His past successes have been based on spotting someone else’s good idea, buying into it, and paying smarter people than him to run and develop them. When he takes the steering wheel, the other wheels inevitably fall off

riclad

Elon has shown contempt for workers of all kinds it's almost a full time job keeping up with the changes at twitter most of which seem designed to annoy it's most dedicated users .the software industry demands leadership diplomacy and some respect for workers as there's a high degree of competition between tech company's

Well, he bought one of the internet's most recognisable brands. In fact, it's even a verb. I've octogenarian relatives who don't have a smartphone who would be aware of Twitter's existence without knowing what it does. It's a huge brand.

He paid grossly over the odds for it, undermined everything that made it useful and interesting and then changed the enormously significant name to something completely bland, unrecognisable and just pointless.

Rebranding is a hugely sensitive and strategic thing that usually takes years never mind months to plan and would have to be justified due to something like a very tarnished brand or going a totally new direction.

Effectively he's just destroying all of Twitter's value. It was never worth 44 billion or whatever he paid, but it was worth quite a bit and what's left of it now? All the core people are gone. It had problems before, but they're now all amplified to the point that it's become utterly toxic and he's now scrapped its brand.

It's not some tiny little startup. It was one of the biggest brands online.

AndrewJRenko

Just when you think he’s hit the bottom

pjohnson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120897084#Comment_120897084

Nah he's always stupid enough to do stupider.

Christy42

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120897084#Comment_120897084

Always phrased so he isn't ever making a point. Just "asking questions" because he just wants to stir the pot of conspiracies without ever wanting to defend them properly.

Quags

For all the moaning on this thread, you could all just close your account on Twitter/X if the changes done dont suit you!

It is not mandatory to have an account for you to survive in the world

crusd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120897288#Comment_120897288

People aren't moaning about the changes, the are commenting that the changes have essentially torpedoed a well known brand for what looks like a porn brand. Essentially the same rabbit hole that Musk went down that saw him kicked out of Paypal

Akrasia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120892488#Comment_120892488

There were probably a lot of people on teams and zoom meetings with raised eyebrows as others presented on a shared screen in the past few days

Christy42

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120897288#Comment_120897288

I don't have an account any more. Seeing a blue check account with a team name announcing a player's death as a hoax was the end for me. If I needed more work to figure out who was posting it just wasn't worth it for me.

However the cult of personality is interesting to me and let's be fair, a failure on this level is hilarious.

Akrasia

I wonder how many Musk fans are already using his new branding (whatever the **** that is) after years of feigning outrage because they think trans people are trying to control how they speak

Akrasia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120897288#Comment_120897288

I don't think many are moaning. it's mostly pointing and laughing and watching the 3rd biggest man baby in the world ruin himself in real time (Putin #1, Trump #2)

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120897288#Comment_120897288

Who's moaning? Dear Quags, if Twitter went extinct I'd be delighted for the improvement in our world; so I say Go Musk Go. The man's a charlatan but if he destroys Twitter?

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120897288#Comment_120897288

Really, and you have never 'moaned' to someone else \ posted on social media about how a business\ company \ shop \ sports team you patronise voluntarily has gone downhill???

Pull the other one.

AMKC

Just decided to go on Twitter sorry X there in forever and will not be going back on. What a horrible Logo. No imagination to it at all. Jeez my 4 year old niece could come up with something far better than that. Well done Musk. You just destroyed a platform I never cared about in the first place by wasting tones of money to do it.

It was handy for a few small bits but it's totally ruined now. The only ones I feel sorry for are the workers.

I give it a year at most and it will all be gone the way of My Space, Yahoo Messanger, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Messanger etc.

Quags

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120897456#Comment_120897456

Ah no Im a human and by nature we moan about things but Musk does not care about what people say about him & as a poster above said he may destroy Twitter but as if life something else will come along and replace it. Twitter was once great but as another poster said "Seeing a blue check account with a team name announcing a player's death as a hoax was the end for me" means we are on a platform with s*um who want attention.

I have twitter & usually only check for football transfers etc cause when good convo is started then its de-railed asap by bots etc

Quags

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120897452#Comment_120897452

Twitter will go but he must have some plan cause some money has being spent on purchasing it.

Quags

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120897341#Comment_120897341

That is disgusting, can see why so many do leave the platform

dasdog

A Bloomberg article yesterday (which is paywalled) sums it up.

What company is going to want to put an X on their site beside an Instagram / Facebook logo instead of the cute little $15 bird logo?

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120897886#Comment_120897886

He's currently putting his plan into place, which is a long-gestating goal of a site that deals with online payment services, allows people to earn money through the site, and now general social media integration into it too. Essentially an "everything" app/site; a combination of the likes of Twitter, Tiktok, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Youtube, Paypal, Revolut, Cryptocurrency bullsh*t, and would also handle payments for news sites on a per-article basis (ie. instead of paying a subscription to a news site which a lot of them are doing these days, you would pay 'X' for each article you want to read). Eventually growing to full banking services too.

China has a similar type of app called WeChat, but that's more so because it helps the Chinese government control information and conduct state surveillence.

So even though he ended up being forced to buy Twitter, his only course of action with it is to try and realise his goal of creating his X site/app which he tried to do years ago and failed. He's essentially just bought Twitter's userbase and information as a headstart to get people to use his app.

However, given his absolutely shambolic start in running Twitter as well as regular displays of disregard for regulations, nobody should ever trust him with anything to do with their financial information. X has technically only just started, and is already billions in debt.

Kevrano

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120896217#Comment_120896217

Hey, not a dig at you, just the way that Twitter doesn't allow non subscribers to read tweet threads anymore

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120898097#Comment_120898097

Of course, no offence taken. Forgot people wouldn't be able to read unless logged in. Someone in the replies had already created the threadreader with all the tweets so just copied their link.

Doctor Jimbob

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120897288#Comment_120897288

What about those of us who just think it's hilarious that Musk just can't stop making the worst decisions possible?

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120898191#Comment_120898191

Exactly. I still get what I want from Twitter/X, which is tweets from the people I follow in chronological order. Once that changes or enough of the accounts I follow leave, then the app will no longer be worth my time and I'll be gone.

But it also doesn't mean I can't complain or laugh about Musk ballsing up everything he tries to do with the site.

Cordell

X is just a few short lines away from the nazi swastika. Coincidence? I think not.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120897886#Comment_120897886

Why "must" he? Musk paid far in excess of the company's worth so just at a basic level of economics the purchase was insane. all actions since then, at best, utterly mercurial and in some cases detrimental to the company (ad revenue cratered, the rebrand broadly hated)

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120897084#Comment_120897084

A Community Notes Fact check that people put on his post was removed.

Musk manipulating his control over the site to propagate conspiracy theories..... Boy I sure hope this guy sets up a financial institution so I can give him control over all my money!

Edit: He also just stole the X account as someone already had (at)X. So Musk just took it off him, changed him to (at)x123456...(bunch of numbers), and changed the Twitter username to X.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120898907#Comment_120898907

I'm still bemused at how Musk thanks he can hop skip and jump the twitter userbase into a banking solution when digital banking is a fairly robust, tested industry with a clatter of clear market leaders - including his own erstwhile company, PayPal.

Also amusing that Mr Free Speech doesn't like being corrected by those expressing their right to reply. Who could have thought the noisiest free speech bores are the most hypocritical.

VinLieger

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120899639#Comment_120899639

I think part of his reasoning is hes quite insulated in the US where the likes of Venmo are the only way of easily transferring money between people, ive heard from colleagues simply transferring between accounts takes several days and between banks easily over a week if not weeks, while in Europe we have SEPA which completely negates those issues.