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

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  • #7292
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,690 ✭✭✭✭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

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #7293
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,690 ✭✭✭✭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)

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #7294
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭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?



  • #7295
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,366 ✭✭✭✭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.

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



  • #7296
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,619 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    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.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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  • #7297
    Quags
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭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



  • #7298
    Quags
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭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.



  • #7299
    Quags
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭Quags


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

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



  • #7300
    dasdog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭dasdog


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

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    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?

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  • #7301
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,579 ✭✭✭✭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.



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  • #7302
    Kevrano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭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



  • #7303
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,579 ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #7304
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,579 ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #7305
    Cordell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,112 ✭✭✭Cordell


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



  • #7306
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭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)



  • #7307
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,579 ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #7308
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #7309
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,330 ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #7310
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,107 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120899671#Comment_120899671

    That should be changing soon, there is a new system coming out called FedNow.



  • #7311
    Colten Little Bellboy
    Posts: 1,338 ✭✭✭ Colten Little Bellboy


    Honestly though, who in their right mind would want to use Twitter as a banking app !?!!!?!



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  • #7312
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,107 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


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

    These are the conspiracies he posts publicly, imagine the nonsense he doesn’t post.



  • #7313
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,330 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120899680#Comment_120899680

    Ohh yeah id heard about that before whats the timeline for it? Just add it to the ever growing list of why his everything platform idea is absurd, completely unnecessary and not needed.



  • #7314
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,107 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Think it’s available now, although the involvement of the Fed may help Musk.



  • #7315
    Kevrano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭Kevrano


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120899671#Comment_120899671

    Deleted



  • #7316
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,244 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    It's very like the Intelex logo too.



  • #7317
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,586 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    This whole debacle will be used as a case study in business for beginners courses as the gold standard in how NOT to operate.

    Every single decision Musky has made has been the comically wrong one.



  • #7318
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,030 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Musk decides he wants the @x handle so just takes it from the guy who has held it for 16 years.


    https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-take-x-handle-from-original-user




  • #7319
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,330 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120900766#Comment_120900766

    Yes let's trust this man with our money....



  • #7320
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,690 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    The twitter bird is now an ex parrot.if it wasn't nailed to it's perch, it would be pushing up daisies

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



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  • #7321
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,868 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2023/07/27/twitter-suspends-then-unsuspends-popular-right-wing-user-who-tweeted-image-of-child-sexual-abuse/?sh=2de400f86670

    I recall a load of people previously claiming that Elon was actively combatting child sexual abuse. Such content remained up for 4 days, the user was suspended. But he's a right wing loon so Musk actively intervened to unban him.



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