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[–] TheFermentalist@lemm.ee 128 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

No longer do you tweet, you Xcrete

Edit. The gold below is worth far more than any reddit awards I got!

[–] RembrandtQEinstein@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

I scroll through my feed of xcrement

You don't tweet, you xeet. One letter better than yeet.

[–] NotSpez@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

🥇🏅👑

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

🏆

Gotchu

[–] NightAuthor@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] clifftiger@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago
[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

🏆

Gotchu

[–] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 84 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When I was 8 I loved the letter X and used it in a bunch of my cringe gamertags like "Player X". this man is a literal child thinking this sounds cool.

[–] genoxidedev1@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We all had to take tags like xXBigChungus69Xx because Elon took the original xXXXx 😤

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SpaceX. He's completed his little circle.

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He had x.com before that.

He's going full circle by now having it redirect to twitter, and will probably be the main page soon.

[–] rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elon is doing this so he can pretend that if someone says “i saw your ex today” he can pretend they were talking about his tweet, change my view

[–] Ignacio@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(Un)fortunately, that only works in English, as far as I know.

[–] bottom_text@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Nah, works in norwegian, and german if your ex is a guy

[–] Dlayknee@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Y'know, if he hadn't fired all of his staff for this kind of thing then someone could've told them this is going to get meme'd to "ex" in about 0.06482 seconds. Oh well, time to grab the popcorn!

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.de 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If he fires a high ranking employee now, they can put "ex X exec" on their resume.

[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Remember that time Elon's ex left him for a trans woman? I wonder why he's so obsessed with x.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No, you see. That is exactly what happened list time and he can't have that happening again.

[–] Zardoz@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So instead of "I read this tweet on Twitter" it's now "I read this X on X"? That is fucking dumb.

Maybe he'll be dumb enough to sell the Twitter domain to pay bills and some rich hero buys it and puts Mastodon there instead

[–] LambdaDuck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

it reads like you’re trying to censor which exactly service you’re talking about! 😆

“I read A on B”

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

I Xd an X on X.

X? You're Xing me.

No X!

[–] Sankta@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

XX not XY? Very anti men

Edit: cant type

[–] ayyndrew@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Buying an NFT just so I can use this insult

[–] optissima@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just download one for free

[–] ayyndrew@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

that isn't very dumb is it

[–] optissima@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The two need not be related

[–] optissima@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The two need not be related

[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Sweet, can I print screen pls?

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

I'd assume most of them go for pretty close to 0 now. Worth it for the joke I think.

[–] Kara@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me when I post an X on X.com, owned by X Corp, which is owned by the father of X Æ A-12

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I give you this little tidbit from wikipedia I read yesterday:

According to Musk and Grimes, his name was "X Æ A-12" (/ɛks æʃ eɪ ˈtwɛlv/); however, the name would have violated California regulations as it contained characters that are not in the modern English alphabet,[476][477] and was then changed to "X Æ A-Xii". This drew more confusion, as Æ is not a letter in the modern English alphabet.[478] The child was eventually named X AE A-XII Musk, with "X" as a first name, "AE A-XII" as a middle name, and "Musk" as surname.

I found it funny.

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] serfraser@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another consonant please, Carol

[–] supercriticalcheese@feddit.it 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] kibiz0r@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I’ve got a safe 3 or a risky 9.

[–] ken27238@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a textbook example of how to not do a rebrand. The only thing that has change on twitter is the logo, nothing else. Everything else is still twitter.

Then again this rebrand is right on the money for how Elon is managing twitter.

[–] Iceberg@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

So right! A leading marketing professor at Northwestern is already breaking it down into the key lessons to learn from these mistakes:

https://timcalkins.com/2023/07/the-twitter-branding-debacle/

[–] el_torrente@ttrpg.network 13 points 1 year ago

X gon give it to ya

[–] Moc@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Twitter is like a bad x

[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

What a dumb asshole.

[–] HeavenAndHell@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Elmo Musk should host a TED talk on how NOT to brand a website. It would sell millions of tickets.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Someone should rent the Tweety Bird brand from Time Warner and make a Twitter clone social media platform identical to o.d Twitter (only the logo is Tweety on a blue Looney Tunes circles background), that way, when one posts there, it's called a tweet or tweeting

If someone did this, I bet everyone would totally migrate.

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