I deactivated both of my (long dormant) Twitter accounts—one personal, one professional—when it became clear that the sale to Musk would go through. After a month they were permanently deleted. I regret nothing. 

His whole plan has been to kill Twitter because people on it made him feel bad. 

I promise you, if you hand me a billion dollars, you would never hear from me again.

The one exception is if I get a student loan forgiveness nonprofit started, but I don’t even want credit. I just want to keep young people betting on their futures from winding up like me.

Say whatever you want about that little blue bird: it was one of the most recognizable symbols in a world with no monoculture. After the rapidly dwindling existing user base/data, that was the main value of whatever was left of the site.

just the manifestation of a 52-year-old, serially divorced billionaire’s midlife crisis

The requirement that all new posts on “X” require a dick pic is just an added benefit straight from the brilliant mind of Musk.  

The really great thing is that now if you’re in a room with Mush, you know exactly who the stupidest person there is. 

“Every billionaire is a policy failure in a country without universal healthcare.”
-AOC

I mean we can definitely trust this guy with developing ethical AI, right??

He keeps self-pwning by repeatedly demonstrating that the only reason why any of us know his name is because of his mummy and daddy’s money.

IIRC that’s one of the main reasons why his X.com thing failed while at PayPal. Focus groups hated it and thought it was definitely associated with porn. Considering he named a room “s3Xy,” I can’t really give him the benefit of the doubt that he had no idea.

I wonder what Xerox will say about it. 

Given this rebrand is so sloppy and ill conceived, and given the company is woefully understaffed, I’d not be surprised if they acceidentally their Twitter trademark lapse, in which case...fair game bitches!

AND ugh, why would you discard the well name brand of the company you bought? He is such a moron.

It’s a corporate snuff film.

jesus jackrabbit christ, this is the first I am hearing of this rebrand. My phone hasn’t updated yet. It’s SO WEIRD how he thinks “X” still has some edge or cachet like this is 1993 instead of 2023. Didn’t he also saddle a kid with some version of X-something?
ALSO: That logo reminds me of the old Xerox logo or some…

That whole thing looks and sounds like porn. 

He just likes screwing with people.

To be fair, it’s pretty annoying that there’s almost always someone complaining about a headline being “clickbait” on every single article. And yet you all continue to click, continue to read, and continue commenting which accomplishes nothing but driving engagement and encouraging them to continue creating these…