The @ is also being dropped and all usernames are now in the format "xXusernameXx"
Usernames may only be appended with the following numeric combinations: 420, 69, 666
Forty-four billion dollars to not have the employees, offices, servers, code, reputation, vetting, or brand.
And his hot new name for this smoldering ruin is... X.
Absolute fucking child.
I grew such hatred for this man in the past years I wish he would just ruin himself and not hear a delusional thing from him ever again.
I was 10 years old and got a GameCube game called Hot Wheels Velocity X. I hadn’t played it yet, but I told my friend I knew it would be cool because of the X.
That’s what Elon is like, and again, I was 10 years old
I could not care less about what Musk does. But the slow collapse of Twitter is entertaining.
I'm amazed how many people are still sticking with it despite everything.
Imagine wanting to change the name of a world recognized company and the best you can come up with is "X". 💀
and somehow it's still better than his kids names
That actually is what he calls one of his kids per a friend at SpaceX who sees him with said child
When Blackwater started to feel the heat from the shit they were doing in the war they changed their name to the Xe Group to reduce their brand visibility. Does Elon hang out with Erik Prince?
I'm sure it'll be a stylised X with serifs on each corner.
Possibly on a red and white background.
Wow. Nobody has ever thought of using an X in their branding before. What a brilliant idea. This man's vision knows no bounds. 🙄
It's just that he own the domain name x.com since 1999 and is very proud of it. He wanted to do something with it so here we go.
He is so intelligent. One day I wish I could come up with a name like X.
He probably was thinking "oh hey let's make it mysterious... What's more mysterious than x? Nothing! Solve for x! Right guys? Right? (everyone says yes since all smart people left the building).
That's very on brand for Musk, he seems to have an obsession with Xs.
I heard that's why he moved to Texas because someone told him "all the X's" live there.
There's idiotic and then there's Elon
Yes. And in between there's "very idiotic" and then lots of distance...
No one should pay attention to the name change. Just keep calling it Twitter. Like people won't acknowledge that he doesn't call himself Kanye anymore because he's a piece of shit and why honor anything he asks for?
Should have gone with 'F'
'L' would be more fitting since that's the only thing they've been taking
It'll be an anti-clockwise spinning X, with speed lines extending from the tips.
Am I the only one old enough to remember when "Brand X" was the obviously substandard brand that all the name brands compared themselves to?
I can only hope that governments finally take that as hint to explore other platforms (Mastodon *hint* *hint*) for their public service announcements.
I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion at first.
I’m not clicking on Fox and giving them ad revenue. Anyone got a mirror?
I’m confused. I thought companies spend millions of dollars trying to build up a reputable and recognisable branding. Now he’s doing that but backwards.
Does that mean that Tweeting will become "Xing"? That doesn't sound quite right.
Anyone who doesn’t believe Elon is taking Twitter on purpose is a fucking moron.
...or (hear me out) Elon is a fucking moron and is terrible at running a company
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Just because he was good at buying his way in to tech companies doesn't mean he's smart.
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