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[–] [email protected] 129 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

No longer do you tweet, you Xcrete

Edit. The gold below is worth far more than any reddit awards I got!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

I scroll through my feed of xcrement

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

🥇🏅👑

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

You don't tweet, you xeet. One letter better than yeet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

🏆

Gotchu

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

🏆

Gotchu

[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 years ago (2 children)

When I was 8 I loved the letter X and used it in a bunch of my cringe gamertags like "Player X". this man is a literal child thinking this sounds cool.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We all had to take tags like xXBigChungus69Xx because Elon took the original xXXXx 😤

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

SpaceX. He's completed his little circle.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He had x.com before that.

He's going full circle by now having it redirect to twitter, and will probably be the main page soon.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Elon is doing this so he can pretend that if someone says “i saw your ex today” he can pretend they were talking about his tweet, change my view

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

(Un)fortunately, that only works in English, as far as I know.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Nah, works in norwegian, and german if your ex is a guy

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

So instead of "I read this tweet on Twitter" it's now "I read this X on X"? That is fucking dumb.

Maybe he'll be dumb enough to sell the Twitter domain to pay bills and some rich hero buys it and puts Mastodon there instead

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I Xd an X on X.

X? You're Xing me.

No X!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

it reads like you’re trying to censor which exactly service you’re talking about! 😆

“I read A on B”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

XX not XY? Very anti men

Edit: cant type

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Y'know, if he hadn't fired all of his staff for this kind of thing then someone could've told them this is going to get meme'd to "ex" in about 0.06482 seconds. Oh well, time to grab the popcorn!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If he fires a high ranking employee now, they can put "ex X exec" on their resume.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Remember that time Elon's ex left him for a trans woman? I wonder why he's so obsessed with x.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

No, you see. That is exactly what happened list time and he can't have that happening again.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Buying an NFT just so I can use this insult

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just download one for free

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

that isn't very dumb is it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The two need not be related

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The two need not be related

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Sweet, can I print screen pls?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I'd assume most of them go for pretty close to 0 now. Worth it for the joke I think.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Me when I post an X on X.com, owned by X Corp, which is owned by the father of X Æ A-12

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I give you this little tidbit from wikipedia I read yesterday:

According to Musk and Grimes, his name was "X Æ A-12" (/ɛks æʃ eɪ ˈtwɛlv/); however, the name would have violated California regulations as it contained characters that are not in the modern English alphabet,[476][477] and was then changed to "X Æ A-Xii". This drew more confusion, as Æ is not a letter in the modern English alphabet.[478] The child was eventually named X AE A-XII Musk, with "X" as a first name, "AE A-XII" as a middle name, and "Musk" as surname.

I found it funny.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Another consonant please, Carol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I’ve got a safe 3 or a risky 9.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is a textbook example of how to not do a rebrand. The only thing that has change on twitter is the logo, nothing else. Everything else is still twitter.

Then again this rebrand is right on the money for how Elon is managing twitter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

So right! A leading marketing professor at Northwestern is already breaking it down into the key lessons to learn from these mistakes:

https://timcalkins.com/2023/07/the-twitter-branding-debacle/

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

X gon give it to ya

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Twitter is like a bad x

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

What a dumb asshole.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Elmo Musk should host a TED talk on how NOT to brand a website. It would sell millions of tickets.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Someone should rent the Tweety Bird brand from Time Warner and make a Twitter clone social media platform identical to o.d Twitter (only the logo is Tweety on a blue Looney Tunes circles background), that way, when one posts there, it's called a tweet or tweeting

If someone did this, I bet everyone would totally migrate.

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