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29 votes
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Trolls targeted TikTok librarian Mychal Threets. Now he’s quitting to rediscover his library joy.
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The mystery social media account schooling US Congress on how to do its job
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Donald Trump trials - Georgia defendant Kenneth Chesebro caught lying to Michigan prosecutors about alt Twitter account
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The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests
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Twitter/X provides premium perks to Hezbollah, other US-sanctioned groups
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Twenty-six billion records exposed in massive leak, including data from Linkedin, X, Dropbox
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The internet is being ruined by bloated junk
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The "X Factor" was never going to work
Of all the changes Elon Musk brought to Twitter, the one I'm quite skeptical and cringed about is the renaming of the platform itself to "X". I don't know who advised him that this name could even...
Of all the changes Elon Musk brought to Twitter, the one I'm quite skeptical and cringed about is the renaming of the platform itself to "X".
I don't know who advised him that this name could even work at all. X is so generic a name that it doesn't really mean anything because it already stands for a lot of things, how can one even think that a whole new brand can be built out of it? For example, one of the first picture that comes to my mind is "X-Men" movie series and the famous Professor X. But from what I gather, Elon is more of an Iron Man fan boy than Prof X, right?
The X-Men brand isn't some fluke, the Marvel folks have put some decent effort in creating that story line, plot, dialogs, sound and video effects, etc. to build the legend that it is. If me sitting here in India knows so much about X-Men series, I can only imagine the kind of cult it must have built in US, UK, etc.
And who can forget the "X" variable in mathematics? It is often used for equations like (X2 + Y2). X is also very commonly used in discussions to denote an unknown quantity or factor. For example, "Let us assume that X is the demand factor for this new product.".
I don't know about other parts of the world but at least here in India, almost every person I've talked to still calls the platform "Twitter" and not X! Indeed, as long as the domain
twitter.com
still works, one might be even correct or justified in calling it so. But who knows how long that domain is going to work.However, one of the noblest things for Musk to do in 2024 is to just revert or rollback this decision and restore back the "Twitter" brand. This is not just a popular demand but if I recall, Elon himself had often said that they will experiment with twitter and roll back what doesn't work? At least his top advisors or generals must strongly advice Elon to consider reverting this. Maybe they can come up with a slightly modified version of the Twitter logo with a different color and a bit of what Elon has in mind with respect to X? I'm sure there is no dearth of creativity in either Silicon Valley or Elon's team!
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Insulin pump software drops leading decimal points
38 votes -
Elon Musk's X receives Pennsylvania money license in push toward payment features
3 votes -
The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
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Ex-Twitter exec claims X fired him for raising security concerns
21 votes -
Yup hacks together a cross-posting app for X, Threads, Bluesky and others
18 votes -
Elon Musk’s poisoned platform
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X runs unblockable ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film
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Mark Zuckerberg delivers on promise to pour 'gasoline' on Threads growth as the platform regains users while X shrinks
21 votes -
‘Verified’ OSINT accounts are destroying the Israel-Palestine information ecosystem
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How the attacks in Israel are changing Threads
18 votes -
Elon Musk sued for defamation of recent college graduate by attorney who won $49 million from Alex Jones over Sandy Hook lies
59 votes -
EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation followed by Facebook
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X announces it’s shutting down ‘Circles’ as of October 31st
15 votes -
Elon Musk thinking of charging money for Twitter
@Dave Lee: Elon Musk revisiting an idea apparently floated privately in the past -- charging *everyone* to use Twitter. A lower tier than premium. "We've moving to a small monthly payment for use of the X system," he just told Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it's only way to stamp out bots.
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Elon Musk’s X sues California over content moderation law, claiming it violates free speech
25 votes -
X to collect biometric and employment data
39 votes -
Black Twitter abandons Musk's X. The influential online community that gave rise to social movements like #BlackLivesMatter is now a ‘digital diaspora’ in search of a new home
66 votes -
What do I think about Twitter/X Community Notes?
18 votes -
Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes
79 votes -
It's time to change how we cover Elon Musk: After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more skeptical approach
96 votes -
X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his @music account
63 votes -
'Straight out of the authoritarian playbook': US watchdog sued by Musk's X hits back
33 votes -
Twitter’s future is a return to Elon Musk’s past
43 votes -
Saw X | Official trailer
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Intellectual property attorney claims that more than 900 companies have trademarked X, Musk's company will face lawsuits
18 votes -
Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears
131 votes -
X | Official trailer
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Resurrecting forbidden music | James Conlon
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The success of nonviolent civil resistance | Erica Chenoweth
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Authoritarian breakdown -- how dictators fall | Dr. Natasha Ezrow
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Waking up as a meme-hero | Andras Arato
5 votes -
iPhone Xs max durability test
3 votes