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So is he changing name again to XVideo?
Xvideo? I never heard of that before um…
I'm going to purchase xvideos.com right now!
Too late, some mastermind from the Czech Republic already did it in '98
Should get Vin as the spokesman and call it xXxvideo.
It's amazing watching a platform with no substantial competitor kill itself so badly. AltaVista was killed by Google, MySpace was killed by Facebook, Twitter is killed by the ramblings of the lunatic who bought it.
And yet there are so, so many people that don't seem to be able to pull themselves away from it.
I really don't get it.
He's gunna be gutted when he finds out xvideos is already taken.
Time to spread the news that X is rebranding to xvideos
"What if we ignored what made our platform successful and instead tried to force our product into a already crowded market?" Elon Musk, Tech genius
Lol, twitter was brilliant when it was 144 character text messages. Then it got ruined by adding photos. Now it is going the rest of the way down the tubes by becoming becoming video first. Ugh.
Oh yea back when it needed that limit because the whole point was to text it over SMS and you could post with any SMS capable phone lol
That was fun and unique, now it's just...boring? Just another social media site, it's only defining thing is it's (declining) size and reach
SMS was the original reason, but the side effect of forcing people to condense their thoughts into a couple sentences was pretty wonderful. Especially for an open ended community where anyone can talk about anything.
Hey at least photos worked....
Video playback doesn't work half the time, and the other half the time it insists on 140p playback and then freezes.
They're doubling down on something they've been failing at for years.
Of course let's take a platform that barely holds itself together to show just text and let's pivot it to be the most technical demanding and expensive kind of service. It will work fine, I'm sure.
The only thing worse than its video player are the literal nazis on the site, has he tried watching video there? To call it dogshit would be an insult to dogshit, which can presumably be useful as fertilizer.
I thought Xitter was going to be a bank! Honestly, who can follow the mentally-ill, cocaine-fueled ramblings of this man-baby?
The microblogging platform that once limited posts to 140 characters is now a "video-first" platform?
How Elon deals with advertising complaints: "Go advertise someplace else."
Advertisers:
It's an interesting claim.
I don't think I've ever seen a platform struggle more with video than Twitter. Everything looks like it's using RealPlayer. It's the only platform where the Japanese wouldn't have to censor their porn before uploading.
I never, ever see any actual ads anymore. It's either some dude with an Indian dude smiling saying "Hello!" or the same exact ass picture from "Hailey201238712985723" or "Jonah9018328412873" advertising the same porn site. No advertiser worth their salt would ever advertise on Elon's Twitter.
No user worth their salt would be on there either...
Which raises the question, why are you still seeing Twitter ads? Lmao
I haven't been keeping up with the changes to X but I checked out their videos site (xvideos, I presume) and it seems like it's mostly porn with the occasional Tesla shareholder meeting keynote.
The keynotes seem a bit incongruous and I could do without them. Otherwise, it doesn't seem like it's gone too far downhill.
Meta already did the "pivot to video" scam. I doubt most media outlets are going to fall for it again.
Has anyone made any piece of technology that could block Elon Musk news? I understand he is currently ruining the world at full speed, but for fuck's sake, some of us don't think this is tech news worthy and it's frankly annoying. He makes it to every paper, then to every news forum. Yuck. Enough Musk spam... you are only doing him favors, even when the news is bad. There is no such thing as bad publicity.
The only videos that show up on my Twitter are literal war crimes, gore, NFSW, NFSL… I’m sure being LiveLeak Jr is doing great things for bringing advertisers back.
With this guy, I can only assume he's saying so because video ads generate more profit.
Twitter has no skin in the video serving game and they have no USP there (aside from famously allowing porn). When he realizes the folly of his actions, he'll do another U-turn like the many he's done since purchasing Twitter.
I didn't know this guy's character before he bought Twitter but am now fully convinced he's but a charlatan who's always trying to seek the popular 'vote' as a billionaire.
I haven't visit twitter/X for a while. A "video-first platform" typically supports live streams, captions/subtitles and 4k videos. Does X supports these?
"X" the thing you click to close videos you don't like or are done with.
Do it. I haven't seen this play out in the recent past, and I'm sure moving from text content to video content to chase advertising has never gone wrong for anyone ever.
If he built X.com as a video sharing site to rival YouTube instead of rebranding Twitter and turning it into a Nazi bar, I think people would have a more favourable view of him.
Musk can have good ideas but he's being blinded by his own hubris.
Musk can have ~~good~~ ideas but he’s ~~being blinded by his own hubris~~ an idiot.
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