Iβm gonna call it Twitter even harder now.
iβm going to stop calling it twitter when twitter.com redirects to x.com, and not the other way around
at that point i would stop talking about it, because X is just too stupid
His obsession with the letter X is like that middle school kid who used to talk about how many girlfriends he got and how good he is at being a bad assβ¦
Basically, heβs a less likeable version of Zane from Hypnospace Outlaw.
Heβs a wannabe Steve Jobs who has chased his own one letter legacy for 30 years, pathetic.
Iβve said it before and Iβll say it again. If you want him to fail, help him destroy Twitterβs brand.
Call it X.
I has worse brand recognition, terrible brand loyalty, and if only highlights that the product has changed for the worse.
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Iβm sorry, but due to cultural norms the name Twitter is rooted deep within our modern language.
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[PERSUASION] Maybe a free little blue check will do the trick
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Or what?
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[INTIMIDATION] drop your daughterβs dead name and Iβll drop your siteβs.
Narrator: You imagine throwing a burlap sack over his head. His underlings would be extremely displeased with you, but he wouldnβt put up much of a fight himself.
Narrator: You can think of someone who would be extremely pleased with your offering, however.
Elon: Youβre looking at me funny. Is there something you need?
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[THE DARK URGE] Give in to your desires.
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[PERSUASION] I have an investment opportunity that I think you would be interested in.
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Can I see your wares?
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No, nothing. I was just lost in thought.
You know youβve played the game too much when you can hear how the Narrator would read those lines.
What game has βTHE DARK URGEβ dialogue options? I was imagining Fallout before, but this makes me think it must be some newer one.
The only thing that gets me hard is billionaires not getting their way.
If I win the Powerball Iβll be able to afford a good Dom.
Now the real paradox: if I can only cum when billionaires canβt get their way but Iβm a billionaire and my mistress denies me orgasm, what happens? Does the universe implode on itself?
The problem is, is that if you engage with anyone outside of the internet, they have no fucking idea what youβre talking about when you call it βXβ.
Itβs so fucking stupid of a name. Even worse than Facebook changing to Meta.
You can ask people to call it βXβ all day, every day, but you canβt just change the name of your brand/product to a single letter, that people use every day for other things, and expect it to work out for you.
Facebook the product is still Facebook. The only name that changed was that of the company that owns Facebook, which makes sense as that holding company also runs other products like Instagram.
Google made a similar move in 2015 when it created Alphabet to hold the non Google parts of Google.
In both cases the renaming was on the coorporate side. They made no effort to loose the old trademark, and continue to operate under it today.
The only high profile case that comes to mind that is simmilar to Twitter is when Comcast rebranded itself as Xfinity in 2010. In that case, it worked because: A) Comcasts reputation was way worse than Twitters and B) people donβt have that much of an option anyway. In the otherhand, the rebranding failed in the sense that everyone still knows them as Comcast.
I honestly thought Comcast just bought xfinity at some point. Also fuck xfinity
I think they DID buy xfinity, then used the name because they were done wiping their ass with βcomcastβ. I only say this because I distinctly remember having both xfinity and comcast showing up as internet options on some old house listings.
Largely true but as a small aside, Google is still a company (within Alphabet). Alphabet is purely a corporate structure, and all branding still has Google on it. Whereas Facebook is now only a product, Meta is the company brand with its own logo and products named directly after it (like Meta Quest).
In defense of Zuckerberg β and thereβs something I never thought Iβd say β they changed the name of the company so that they could introduce new brands. They were not dumb enough to rebrand the successful products. Itβs just now Facebook by Meta.
That was totally his idea, the idea of a fucking imbecile, I bet he fired the entire PR and marketing departments, because he thinks he knows better.
An imbecile narcissist. He probably thought he could literally take over the mindshare of βxβ. Megalomania seems like his brand, though, so no surprises there.
Iβm just glad heβs not an American so he canβt become the next Trump.
When I go to x.com I end up on twitter.com
So Elon says itβs π but my browser still says itβs Twitter
Wonder how much money he blew on that domain only to not even make it the canonical one.
Since he tried to name PayPal X also, Iβm assuming heβs has it forever. Like Bezos and relentless.com.
Even back then a single letter domain was probably worth tens of millions.
Maybe heβs just fixated on some sort of sunk cost fallacy. Now that heβs finally in control of another online service he feels he needs to use the domain he spent untold amounts of money on just so it didnβt seem like a waste.
Funnier yet, when you go to https://π.com you also end up on x.com which redirects to twitter.com.
Thatβs funny, when I do it I end up on nitter.net
GTA IV had a Tw@ Internet Cafe so Iβve always kind of thought of it like that.
