I mean, it’s not like twitter was ever a beacon of glory, pre-Elon twitter was still twitter
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Twitter was a turd. X is a turd marinaded in diarrhea sauce.
Such poetry. It brings a tear to my eye
Ok well maybe a beacon of glory is a bit out there for Twitter, but there was a time where it was actually cool and unique.
Like back in the day where you could interact with it over plain SMS lol
I feel old.
Xitter (pronounced shitter)
Stylized as 𝕏itter
Ummm … how?!? I just copied that text and it worked. 🤯
It’s a distinct ascii character
not in ascii!!! in unicode!!!
Because it's text.
There are more kind of letters then just our latin alphabet. Cyrillic, aboriginal Canadian and even Chinese and Japanese can be typed by just text for instance （日本語の例え）
In the same vein, mathematical and other scientific symbols can be typed using just text, and 𝕏 is the symbol that stands in place for arbitrary distance in a formula.
Basically, it's just a (mathematical) letter, it can be typed.
That's also why their new CEO had difficulties copyrighting it; it's just a letter, after all!
As a sidenote, looking up what the mathematical symbol actually means gave me this gem
Even the Wikipedia community refuses to acknowledge this!
see the talk page of twitter
There is no concencus, slightly more people oppose to rename the page, but only sightly.
I hope they keep it up, to avoid confusion, and to spite their current, dickhead CEO
unicode!
It's not like it was a hostile take over. They played their part when Musk talked shit and they sued him to follow through with the purchase. They could have easily kept it, but they wanted the money instead.
Not that they are blameless - far from it - but they had a fiduciary responsibility to pursue the deal because it was good for their shareholders
That’s not the case at all, though it’s very often believed to be and stated as such on here and Reddit.
It was a public company, the shareholders would've sued them, no?
Twitter has never, even dating back to it's inception, never ever ever turned a profit. The whole reason Elon mockingly offered to buy it was because they were looking for, and struggling to find, a buyer. They just wanted to break even and walk away.
Instead Elon was like "Hur dur I got 43 billion for ya!" And Twitter was like "SOLD! No takesies backsies!". And Elon was like "Wait, wut?"
And then Elon carried a sink through the lobby in protest.
Hey, don't rewrite history - twitter was always notoriously bad, under Elon it surely got even worse though.
Previously, it was a shithole.
Now, it's a Nazi shithole.
The way I look at it, if Elon Musk is gonna deadname his own child, I'm sure as shit gonna deadname the corporation he tanked
Eye for an eye makes the world blind
There is simple solution: just ignore it. Don't refer to it in any way.
Twitter is gone. It died the day Elon fired most of its staff.
Twitter was always bad. It is of course way worse now, but it is silly to have any nostalgic and reverential feelings for it.
I mean lets not overdo it the algorithms were becoming very trash before it was bought up but it was usable. Peak twitter was like 2017
Best name to call it is to just not call it anything. Don't talk about it. Let it die.
Twitter is no worse today than five years ago. But it’s certainly also no better. The discussion about which billionaires we want manipulating public discourse is outright insanity
People now have fond memories of twitter? Insane.
I present: Xitter
I always call it 'X, the everything app.'
Call it "the app formerly known as twitter". It's what the media does. It would piss off Elon, and it has a whole prince vibe to it.
Mmh... nope, don't care, my neurons has already a "twitter" thing in memory, devoting 0 additional effort in anything related to that thing
For me, it’s simpler than that: I’m gonna deadname his company as long as he keeps deadnaming his daughter
What's up with his daughter? Did she decide to switch name because he gave her a stupid one?
She was a boy. Now she's a girl. Daddy didn't take it so well.
Read to the tune of Sk8er boi by Avril Lavigne
She was a boy,
He's just a douche.
Can I make it any more obvious?
Sorry twitter was always trash
It really is saying something that it's waaay worse now.
I hadn't been there in a long while, but a friend sent a link to what he said was a funny tweet. It was, but the responses were just awful, and they all had blue checkmarks.
Every single inserted ad was for right-wing grifts (crypto, t-shirts, gold coins, etc) or awful right-wing politicians looking angry or posing with guns.
Noped right out.
I pointed it out to my wife, but she says the journalists she follows are still all there. 🤷🏻♂️
Don't call it anything. Ignore it and maybe it will go away.
I have despised twitter since basically its inception.
- The character (original) character limit fundamentally means you are strongly encouraged to limit conversation to basically soundbites, slogans, and pithy comments. Even though this was changed later, it still created a culture that generally mocks anything long winded.
While its true that brevity is the soul of wit, wit is not the same thing as a detailed and nuanced discussion of a complex topic.
It thus lends itself to being an optimal tool for political slogans, celebrity gossip, and direct corporate advertisement.
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Twitter is far, far, faaar too open ended, as in one to many kind of network connections. Its a dream come true also for narcissistic, attention seeking individuals who want to win Twitter.
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Twitter blew up before Facebook completely shifted (enshittified?) their entire model from being focused on actually connecting friend groups, and directly pushed Facebook toward just being an unmitigated firehose of 'content' from every which way, which just became the norm for 'social media' design.
Of course X now is even fucking worse, but I am so glad its dying.
The way I see it, Twitter contributed heavily toward destroying the older, more personal formats of social media, it helped destroy the old forum culture of the net where people had communities and a measure of intellect, privacy and respect.
It took the sincerity out of online discourse, and was foundational in shifting the internet from a 'place' with lots of weird locales, into some kind of Eldritch god's sick joke of a species level omni-mirror, reducing online humanity to a popularity contest of political slogans, narcissistic clout chasers, gossip mongers, and corporate sloganeering and brand worship... and giving all of this to us in an undifferentiated constant flow.
But Twitter has always been shit.