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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭nachouser


    "The most efficient.... database for the thing that is money."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,704 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    To the moon baby, well a bit off the launch pad at least.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭nachouser



    ....https://twitter.com/x

    Hopefully the user gets a few quid out of the debacle.



  • Posts: 6,631 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Musk has outed himself as a Dick - fantastic job.



  • Posts: 6,631 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That ship has already sailed. I suspect Twitter will be hard to give away soon.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,704 ✭✭✭silliussoddius




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭I.R.Y.E.D




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,870 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    I think no matter how you pronounce it, it's wrong.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭UsBus


    I vaguely remember some history of Musk on YouTube a few years back where Musk wanted to buy back the domain name x.com from his former partner who he had created PayPal with. From what I can remember, the documentary mentioned he went to great lengths at the time and that he had been planning the X project decades ago. I guess this is coming to fruition now..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭nachouser


    It's going down the xitter.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭PeadarCo


    The first business he founded was X.com which later merged with PayPal. So it is a name he used before and helped as things go successfully. At the time one of the reasons they ended up using PayPal was because apparently X.com sounded like a porn site.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Genuine curiousity: has anyone seen any sober, respectable opinions out there defending or even rationalising the rebrand as a good idea? By all accounts even generally indifferent publications appear to have treated this news with a degree of bemusement and criticism. And are even the Muskaholics staying silent on this one?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭nachouser


    There won't be one. It's literally the worst possible one letter rebrand you could think of.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,639 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    No. Its just vanity and arrogance on Musk's part. It does absolutely nothing to enhance the offering of the platform or UX (pardon the pun)

    If Elon were to read this I'd tell him two things.

    1) People have been 'hoovering' not vacuuming, for 115 years. You call them Xs (exes?) if you like, users will call them tweets forever.

    2) People in the global west absolutely will not trust a unified platform for social media, banking, online shopping etc. Expecially not one operated by you alone, where on a whim, you could ruin people's information and property.

    Chinese walls (ironic) between our banking and email and shopping and social media are desirable for security and personal peace of mind, not inconvenient.

    What he's done today just accelerates the descent of his 44 billion quid to Zero.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭Kevrano


    Earlier today Musk tweeted that the new tweet was called “ an X”. He’s making it up as he goes along!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,193 ✭✭✭screamer


    Well he can X his money goodbye. a xeet indeed, more like a sheet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,336 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Never been a big fan of Twitter but fuxk me the whole value of it is in the brand name and logo. Not the value musk paid but it has some value. A rebrand of this nature is one of the stupidest ideas I have ever seen.



  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,464 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    That's all part of his cunning plan. It's not really a letter, It's a Roman "10" - Bo Derek is to become the new face of whatever it is. He originally planned it to be Dudley Moore until someone told him that Moore had been unavailable since 4 years before X was originally created



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 261 ✭✭Fox Tail


    If Twitter is my X then X is my ex.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,414 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    It does or, at best, a placeholder name, the way people say 'you need x to do y'. It is one of the most forgettable names I've heard.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭nachouser


    Hmm, pronounced annex. Yup, sounds about right.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Everyone of his companies has been hacked at one time or another including his own Twitter account and he expects people to trust him with their money.

    Some ejits will of course fools and their money and all that.

    AI powered so no need for real human staff at all then.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,187 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    It sounds exactly like the BS string of words Kendall in Succession would come out with...

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,198 ✭✭✭✭briany


    You can buy a lot of fake friends with the kind of money that Musk possesses, but you can never buy true popularity or charisma with it and this is the one thing that Musk seems to crave above all else.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,397 ✭✭✭Royale with Cheese


    This all continues to be fúcking hilarious anyway.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭Kevrano


    Very true! He has no one to be honest with him, just enablers.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭nachouser


    X Marketing Dept: "We're just reviewing our numbers and it seems that you haven't been spending as much on advertising this month. Is there a particular reason we should be aware of?"

    Receiver: Opens email and hits the big X in the corner to delete.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,258 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    At this stage its worth wondering just how much Musk was ever actually involved in any of the successes of PayPal/Tesla/SpaceX.

    He likely helped them financially sure but this whole accidental Twitter purchase and literally every single decision he has made since then has shown he is a below average businessman and certainly no genius.

    So hes either had some kind of breakdown recently that has debilitated him severely, or was just incredibly good at claiming credit for what others did possibly buying them off so they wouldn't reveal the truth.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    There is loads of X users posting X's that Microsoft actually owns the trademark to X.

    They probably looked at XBox and said right lets copyright X for use on other things.


    That would be so fcuking hilarious is true!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,915 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Musk has really Xed this up. He should have named it Q oh wait then Paramount could sue him because they have the trademark for that maybe with Q in Star Trek. I would see no problem in that do. So get rid of X Musk and rename it Q lol.


    The logical choice of course would have been just to rename Twitter T or even TW.

    But sure when has Musk ever being logical.

    Me I barely use Twitter would not miss it one but but would feel sorry for all the people that would lose their jobs.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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