Wonder what will happen to the sign? Anyone not evil need a really big X second-hand?Elon Musk Forced to Take Down Disastrous 'X' Sign on Twitter Building After 3 Days
The removal of the blinding eyesore follows complaints from aggrieved neighbors in San Francisco and a general dumpster fire of a rebrand rollout.jezebel.com
This will turn into Loss at this rate.I I, formely Y, formerly X, formerly Twitter
Of course he didn't apply for permits or ask permission. He's Elon Musk. He is above your pathetic concepts of "governments" and "laws".Elon Musk Forced to Take Down Disastrous 'X' Sign on Twitter Building After 3 Days
The removal of the blinding eyesore follows complaints from aggrieved neighbors in San Francisco and a general dumpster fire of a rebrand rollout.jezebel.com
Move fast and break things.Of course he didn't apply for permits or ask permission. He's Elon Musk. He is above your pathetic concepts of "governments" and "laws".
And rockets, when your stubborn insistence on not using an actual launchpad shotguns it with rock and concrete.Move fast and break things.
Including, it appears, your own company's bank balance.
Also, why is Twitter going from the immediately recognizable and fitting bird icon, that even people that don't use Twitter like me know, to a generic X? Is there actually any reason that Twitter needed a re-branding? I'm kind of out of the loop.
Knowing the background, I suspect it is vanity:Most likely explanation is that it's another one of Musk's stupid whims, and it's 𝕏 because he is 15yo and 𝕏 is just so kewl.
True, he's been trying to make 𝕏 a thing for about a quarter century now. Guess he woke up that saturday or sunday, and decided then and there to have another go at 𝕏 (some have noted his most stupid tends to happen on the weekends). Hence probably the very short notice of the rebranding and incredibly hackneyed rolloutKnowing the background, I suspect it is vanity:
(^ thread on the website previously known as Twitter, using a third party website to not force one to log in)
So in summary: Not only has he not grown up, he hasn't gotten over being told "no".Knowing the background, I suspect it is vanity:
(^ thread on the website previously known as Twitter, using a third party website to not force one to log in)
Either that, or he figured the website's gonna go down in flames, and if it does he might as well satisfy his vanity.So in summary: Not only has he not grown up, he hasn't gotten over being told "no".
Not if you got other brands apparently....I cannot emphasize enough that you just don't do that to your longtime users/customers because it is so bad for your brand health!
Not if you got other brands apparently.
- Somehow, Vaught remains a Musk fan. He told Ars Technica that he is interested in the billionaire's electric cars and space developments, though someone should tell him that Musk has overstated his level of involvement in the technological developments of both endeavors.
He did it for his new ai thing as well.
- Musk's company also took the handle @Xai from the Japanese user who originally registered the handle back in 2010. On July 12, Musk would go on to officially announce his new artificial intelligence company, xAI. That same day, xAI also launched a Twitter account using the handle @Xai.
"My account was changed without permission," reads an English-language translation of the post that the Japanese user published on X on Wednesday. "It seems that Elon Musk robbed me."
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Furthermore, it appears the company made another bizarre move in changing the Japanese user's handle from @Xai to @xai_. It seems they also changed another user's handle, the user who originally had @xai_, who is now found at the handle @xai__1. (Note the two underscores in that second user's new handle.)
Mashable confirmed that @xai__1 was previously @xai_ through Brown's Twitter data as well as through a link listed in @xai__1's bio which states that the user's Twitter account can be found at @xai_. The user appears to have not used Twitter since 2015.
So, to make things a bit more clear: It appears that Musk and company wanted @Xai. So, the company changed the original @Xai to @xai_. However, there was already a user with the @xai_ handle so they changed the original @xai_ to @xai__1 and then gave @xai_ to the original @Xai.
Not just @x: Elon Musk also took @xAI from its original user for his AI company
A pattern is emerging.mashable.com
The idea of a "WeChat" equivalent is fine, and has the potential to be enormously successful. However, this will require huge sums of money to develop, and Twitter does not have the resources to do this - external funding is required (whether Musk's own billions, or other investors). The jokes about the "X" are that it's a child's ideas of what is cool, and a man so wrapped up in his own ego that he's not paid attention to people's warnings. That's also the root of him being booted as PayPal CEO back in the day: refusing to think anyone else mattered even as he was running his company towards bankruptcy.For what I had gathered, these are no joke. Musk intends to use twitter as a backbone for something different, bigger, allowing more types of data exchange, integrating an AI, facilitating the monetization of anything, and leaning/influencing to the (societal and financial) extreme-right. A global platform distinct from twitter, modelled around the Chinese wechat, and so with its own name, part of a network of Musk-owned companies all named "x something" (such as x.ai, his artificial intelligence company).
It isn't erratic.
And people to trust the thing not to be a horrible shambles. Though, he's still got some cultists, I guess.The idea of a "WeChat" equivalent is fine, and has the potential to be enormously successful. However, this will require huge sums of money to develop, and Twitter does not have the resources to do this - external funding is required (whether Musk's own billions, or other investors).