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Can someone explain what we are talking about here? Something having to do with Musk's son's name?
by yaakov34 3y ago
Can someone explain what we are talking about here? Something having to do with Musk's son's name?
- superhumanuser 3y agoTwitter is rebranding to X.
- ulfw 3y ago$44,000,000,000 well spent
- PaulHoule 3y agoDoes this have anything to do with the cage fight/dick measuring content with Zuckerberg? I think almost everybody thought renaming Facebook to Meta was a bad idea, but maybe Musk knows something we don’t. ;-)
- sebzim4500 3y ago> I think almost everybody thought renaming Facebook to Meta was a bad idea Do they? Why? I don't see how it did any harm, and people are way more willing to admit an association with Meta than with Facebook.
- PaulHoule 3y agoWhen it first happened I thought they were trying to evade Facebook’s bad reputation for privacy and politics and made a point to keep calling it Facebook. After about a year “Meta” had the same stink of death around it as NFTs and I figured I’d be doing it no favor by calling it by its preferred name.
- tehbeard 3y agoI thought 'Meta' was the same shuffle Google did with 'Alphabet', some of financial / legal shenanigans.. Though speaking of while trawling the wiki page on Alphabet.... > X (formerly Google X) is an American semi-secret research and development facility and organization founded by Google in January 2010.
- kibwen 3y ago> Does this have anything to do with the cage fight/dock measuring content with Zuckerberg? They're both the results of a sad man's extremely public midlife crisis, so yes.
- Azrael3000 3y agoNo it's about the renaming of Twitter. [0] https://nitter.net/elonmusk https://nitter.net/elonmusk
- 0xblinq 3y agoSo it’s about Musk’s son name
- kimbernator 3y agoGiven that Musk's obsession with the "X" moniker goes back to the 90s at least, I imagine it would be more accurate to say his son's name and this rebrand are both branches from the same tree (see: x.com -> paypal, SpaceX, Tesla model X)
- spiffistan 3y agoTwitter has been rebranded as 'X'. Elon has the domain x.com and I suppose he wants to use it
- optimalsolver 3y agoIs this like when that Roman emperor named his horse as a senator, or are we not quite there yet?
- bhaak 3y agoThe most sane interpretation is that Elon Musk was payed to dilute or destroy Twitter. I can't think of anything else that would make sense. Throwing 44 billion dollars on a company and then gutting it for everything that was valuable including a unique brand that had even its own verb? But the sad reality is probably that a 12 years old narcissist edgelord in the body of a billionaire wanted a vanity plate.
- uptown 3y agoSeems like a reasonable theory if it's the price to be paid by those in power to avoid future revolutions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Revolution
- samr71 3y agoOr to foment one of his own ;)
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- toast0 3y agoThis would explain things, if there was a credible suggestion for who's pulling the strings. The theory of Elop destroying Nokia (consumer) makes sense, because he was at Microsoft, went to Nokia sold it to Microsoft at diminished value and stayed there for a good amount of time. But who would pay Musk for this? And how will he be compensated? Afaik, he's lighting a bunch of his own money on fire. Although, there has been a lot less news from him on Tesla and SpaceX, so maybe it was all a plan to keep him out of those spaces.