Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?

[t0bytoo]

Hmm. Very similar logo to this Polish scuba kit manufacturer who are all about being macho, etc

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[pinkmonkey]

Oh god the 'X' logo has just dropped. The website is still called twitter and the tweet button still says 'tweet'. Such a smooth-brain move. So slick. Much coherent.

He’s trolling isn’t he, isn’t he? It’s so awful. He may as well have called it Doge.

 

[BigMoaner]

Oh god the 'X' logo has just dropped. The website is still called twitter and the tweet button still says 'tweet'. Such a smooth-brain move. So slick. Much coherent.

Circa 2003, Boomer discovers the internets and within 3 months decides to set up a website. It doesnt go smoothly and has to ask his grandson to help with "logistics".

 

[MrCurry]

Didn’t a number of twitter insiders warn soon after Musk took over that people should under no circumstances give their bank details to Twitter app? This change to X seems one step closer to the rumoured ”everything“ app which will take care of people’s financial services needs too.

I wonder how many of those who have signed up to a paying subscription for Twitter will keep track of the changes in Ts and Cs which will smoothly transition them to having X as their bank?

 

[kabbes]

Twitter won’t be able act as a bank without being authorised to be a bank. They’re years off having that kind of infrastructure.

 

[Brainaddict]

I almost didn't believe he'd do it, but there it is, a big X. Others have said it, but most corporate executives would commit murder to have the same kind of brand recognition and embedding in culture that twitter (and its bird) has. Every time I don't think he can get more stupid he just hits it out the park.

 

[bimble]

the bird was called larry. he had a quiff for a few years.
eta 2009 was not a good year.

 

[Rob Ray]

Tbf most executives would also kill to grab the amount of free advertising he's gotten with this stunt. Which'll last longer, the logo or a lettuce ...

 

[bimble]

Tbf most executives would also kill to grab the amount of free advertising he's gotten with this stunt. Which'll last longer, the logo or a lettuce ...

what would it take for you to stop thinking he's a clever man with a cunning plan?

 

[bimble]

The twitter website looks so silly right now, with the blue branding and then the x thing. Its kind of fascinating what happens when someone gets so rich and so isolated that they have absolutely nobody who could give them advice even on a thing as obviously stupid as this.

 

[Rob Ray]

what would it take for you to stop thinking he's a clever man with a cunning plan?

What would it take for you to stop thinking in binary terms of clever/idiot? Him doing a lot of stupid shit and him having quite a long rap sheet for successfully manipulating the media with showy trash are not incompatible concepts. It could be him playing out some nonsense from when he was younger, it could be permanent and I could be wrong, but it seems to have a lot in common with his dogecoin antics and the fact he's not called for anything else on the site to be changed makes me think stunt.

 

[DotCommunist]

Reminded me that DMX is dead, cheers elon, you cunt.

 

[bimble]

What would it take for you to stop thinking in binary terms of clever/idiot? Him doing a lot of stupid shit and him having quite a long rap sheet for successfully manipulating the media with showy trash are not incompatible concepts.

The red car with the dummy in it that is circling space for all eternity that was pretty great i'll grant you.

 

[tommers]

What are tweets called? Exes?

Turns out that yes, they are.

Musk's counsellor is going to have a field day with all of this.

 

[NoXion]

We should call them Xcretions.

 

[elbows]

X Parrot.

 

[pinkmonkey]

The twitter website looks so silly right now, with the blue branding and then the x thing. Its kind of fascinating what happens when someone gets so rich and so isolated that they have absolutely nobody who could give them advice even on a thing as obviously stupid as this.

This is why I think he's trolling, it's like when he replaced the bird with Doge. If he isn't trolling, then what the actual fuck.

 

[JimW]

When your brand has entered ordinary language like hoovering, you'd have to be a prick of Musk proportions to just chuck that away.

 

[spitfire]

When your brand has entered ordinary language like hoovering, you'd have to be a prick of Musk proportions to just chuck that away.

Looking forward to seeing how the news people deal with it, "Random Politician x'd their condolences/congratulations/commiserations to Other Random Politician."

 

[strung out]

The logo is just a unicode character (𝕏) so literally impossible to register as a trademark.

Well done Elon.

 

[Storm Fox]

The logo is just a unicode character (𝕏) so literally impossible to register as a trademark.

Well done Elon.

I think the correct reaction is

 

[BusLanes]

ItvX has retaliated

 

[Storm Fox]

Elon wants to 'own the libs', but owning the libs definition is being flat-out wrong about a lot of things like Climate Change and Coronavirus and for things where opinion is more important, it means being on the side of hate.
So he is going to alienate more users even if you are not a dyed-in-the-wool liberal most people don't want to log in for a daily hate-fest.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Musk is suing the lawyers that advised the twitter board on the sale of twitter to musk! He needs to own his mistakes!

Of all the rich people I've known, I've seen very few of them do that. Most of them don't even pay their bills. They milk things along until people are willing to settle for just a portion of what they're owed just to get something back. People have gone out of business waiting for payment and they know it. If the contractor goes out of business waiting, then it's just a ledger mark in a document in bankruptcy court. Musk and Trump are both prime examples of this behavior.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Musk has done a great job coming up a with a brand image associated with death and destruction.

 

[BigMoaner]

We should call them Xcretions.

Exodus

 

[BigMoaner]

I think power, and its otherness, is inherently interesting and kind of part of our nature...try not being impressed by someone, for whatever reason...so rich powerful poleople, sure I would be interested to get to know them. To have a coffee with them. I can understand why people can find them attractive/facinating, etc. Similar to when we were living in woods...the caveman who cut down the most trees or had a dab nad at killing wilderbeast etc would likely have a certain cache. But it's also prone to extreme illusion and dangerous idolatry, especially when tied to self perpetuating and grossly unfair power structures and dillusional ideology like the one musk himself promotes ...so seeing this prat debunk himself over and over is healthy for mankind. He himself is destroying a lot of dangerous assumptions by being such a failure with Twitter .

 

[a_chap]

We should call them Xcretions.

Exodus

Movements of Jah people.

 

[NoXion]

I think power, and its otherness, is inherently interesting and kind of part of our nature...try not being impressed by someone, for whatever reason...so rich powerful poleople, sure I would be interested to get to know them. To have a coffee with them. I can understand why people can find them attractive/facinating, etc. Similar to when we were living in woods...the caveman who cut down the most trees or had a dab nad at killing wilderbeast etc would likely have a certain cache. But it's also prone to extreme illusion and dangerous idolatry, especially when tied to self perpetuating and grossly unfair power structures and dillusional ideology like the one musk himself promotes ...so seeing this prat debunk himself over and over is healthy for mankind. He himself is destroying a lot of dangerous assumptions by being such a failure with Twitter .

If you want a bit of insight into the minds of Musk and the kinds of people he surrounds himself with, then you could do worse than to read this article: Elon Musk’s Text Messages Explain Everything (link to archived article in case you don't have free access to The Atlantic).

 

[JimW]

Some bloke's been at the AI art, few more at the link: MSN