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Author Topic: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!  (Read 64850 times)

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Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« Reply #855 on: July 27, 2023, 06:14:42 am »

Comic enthousiasts suspect Musk is a big fanboy of Professor X
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Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« Reply #856 on: July 27, 2023, 06:39:00 am »

It was originally an online banking company that developed into PayPal, which held the domain until Musk bought it back recently.
Anybody who puts money into a Musk payment system is probably gambling (so it probably paid off for them, before, but that need not continue).

And any "all in one" online payment/etc service is almost certainly going to service a niché or two, even if those providing/consuming have to dodge around professed usage-restrictions by the various 'innocent' MITM services.
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Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« Reply #857 on: July 27, 2023, 09:11:35 am »

Eh... it's just a unicode character? Very, very literally, the "Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X". I'm not sure I'd call it corporatist art at all, they klepped the thing basically unaltered from a friggin' font set. It's lazy plagiarism more than anything.
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Re: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!
« Reply #858 on: July 27, 2023, 02:52:48 pm »

Updated the title
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Re: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!
« Reply #859 on: July 27, 2023, 03:06:05 pm »

X beyond the frontier!
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Re: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!
« Reply #860 on: July 28, 2023, 01:20:18 am »

I wonder if Musk will just have an X on his tombstone since he loves the letter X so much.
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Re: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!
« Reply #861 on: July 28, 2023, 01:51:48 pm »

Will X start banning people who insist on calling it Twitter? It would be in Musk's style
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Re: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!
« Reply #862 on: July 28, 2023, 02:14:01 pm »

It would be funnier if he had his programmers make every mention automatically turn into X, somebody let our memelord know before he does something stupid again.
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Re: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!
« Reply #863 on: July 28, 2023, 04:43:18 pm »

Will X start banning people who insist on calling it Twitter? It would be in Musk's style
That would be the absolutist free speech advocacy we're all expecting and used to, yes

As for the name maybe it's the initial of his favourite dictator

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Re: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!
« Reply #864 on: July 28, 2023, 05:00:55 pm »

Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg
Xavier Espot, Prime Minister of Andorra
Xiomara Castro, President of Honduras
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Re: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!
« Reply #865 on: July 28, 2023, 05:02:54 pm »

I know it's probably too late, but I just want to comment that this is a wacky idea and if its not clear that he's turning twitter into a mouthpiece for his own interests yet, it will be soon.

That said, maybe he will find a way to make a profit on it yet.  Only needs .... something like 15 billion dollars now.  I heard he stopped paying twitter's bills
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Re: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!
« Reply #866 on: July 28, 2023, 09:34:04 pm »

Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg
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Xiomara Castro, President of Honduras
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Re: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!
« Reply #867 on: July 28, 2023, 09:59:17 pm »

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Re: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!
« Reply #869 on: July 29, 2023, 02:07:41 am »

Maybe he should change his name to X.
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