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9 votes
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Elon Musk on racism, bailing out Donald Trump, hate speech, and more - The Don Lemon Show (full interview)
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Elon Musk sues OpenAI, Sam Altman for breaching firm’s founding mission
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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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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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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
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Elon Musk’s poisoned platform
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Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him
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‘Verified’ OSINT accounts are destroying the Israel-Palestine information ecosystem
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Elon Musk sued for defamation of recent college graduate by attorney who won $49 million from Alex Jones over Sandy Hook lies
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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
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The gruesome story of how Neuralink’s monkeys actually died
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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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The batshit crazy story of the day Elon Musk decided to personally rip servers out of a data center
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Elon Musk’s X sues California over content moderation law, claiming it violates free speech
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And then Elon Musk said there’ll be no more war – not via his satellite. Aren’t we lucky to have the world in his hands?
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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
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How Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—four billionaire techno-oligarchs—are creating an alternate, autocratic reality
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Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation
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Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes
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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
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X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his @music account
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'Straight out of the authoritarian playbook': US watchdog sued by Musk's X hits back
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Twitter threatens legal action against US nonprofit that tracks hate speech
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Twitter’s future is a return to Elon Musk’s past
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Intellectual property attorney claims that more than 900 companies have trademarked X, Musk's company will face lawsuits
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Why is Elon Musk doing what he is to Twitter?
From a non-MAGA’ers perspective; He took a perfectly fine (albeit starting to decline) social media platform with millions of users and derailed it completely from what it was before to a farce....
From a non-MAGA’ers perspective;
He took a perfectly fine (albeit starting to decline) social media platform with millions of users and derailed it completely from what it was before to a farce.
Why even buy Twitter if you’re going to change the entire format, including the actual name of the brand? Why not build a competitor from the ground up and call it X?
Unless you’re the melonhead billionaire your guess is better than mine, but I wonder if this bumbling incompetence is pre-orchestrated somehow or if he’s making it up as he goes.
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Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears
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Elon Musk sues the lawyers that forced him to buy Twitter
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Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme
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Elon Musk and Twitter sued over unpaid severance packages
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Twitter blocks links to rival Threads, while CEO downplays reports of traffic decline
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Q&A with Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, on the whirlwind first two weeks under Elon Musk, Twitter’s content moderation approach, and more
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Elon Musk announces new daily Twitter limitations as thousands of users report problems accessing site
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Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match
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Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting at Twitter, as protests continue to rock Reddit
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Twitter evicted from Colorado offices over unpaid rent
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Elon Musk said Thursday that Twitter is getting a new CEO and that he will move to a product and technical role
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Megathread for news/updates/discussion about Twitter
Not sure it will be worth a full megathread, but there is some news.
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Antisemitic tweets soared on Twitter after Musk took over, study finds
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Megathread for news/updates/discussion about Musk's takeover of Twitter – Part 3
Part 1, Part 2
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Twitter cuts off access for popular third party clients
Starting on Thursday night, Twitter cut off API access for some of the biggest third party clients. From The Verge: It’s hard to tell whether the third-party client outage is due to the API....
Starting on Thursday night, Twitter cut off API access for some of the biggest third party clients.
It’s hard to tell whether the third-party client outage is due to the API. Attempting certain calls from my individual Twitter developer account seemed to work, while Twitter’s own API explorer tool is currently broken.
It definitely seems like it is on purpose. For it to last this long without any update definitely makes it feel like it was done on purpose. Many developers' apps have started showing up as "suspended". In looking at my own account, I can see that both Tweetbot and Fenix are gone from my list of connected apps.
The Icon Factory (makers of Twitteriffic) have a blog post about it as well.
The complete silence from Twitter is completely baffling. Burning more than a decade of working with developers overnight seems incredibly stupid. As Paul Hadad, one of the makers of Tweetbot said:
Even during the darkest Twitter 1.0 days they were pretty open about what they were doing. I remember getting a call prior to the 4 quadrants token limit where they explained what was going to happen and answered questions. I wasn't happy but at least felt there was respect.
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Megathread for news/updates/discussion about Musk's takeover of Twitter – Part 2
Part 2. Previous one here.
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Megathread for news/updates/discussion about Musk's takeover of Twitter – Part 1
The chaos doesn't seem likely to end anytime soon, does it?
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Twitter’s SMS two-factor authentication is melting down
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Twitter quietly drops $8 paid verification; “tricking people not OK,” Musk says
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Elon Musk bans remote work at Twitter, warns staff of “dire” economic outlook
16 votes