Tweeting is now called “posting”, and retweeting is now called “quoting”, because Elmo is a moronic failson who has no idea how marketing works and does not understand the value of a brand.
To quote a tweet (I’m following Twitter’s guidelines on gender and refusing to acknowledge it by its preferred name) I saw; “It’s like changing McDonald’s to M. I’m going to M to get the 2-patty 3-bun meat sandwich with potato logs and a fluid cup.”
It may be working as publicity, but the core idea behind publicity is to drive business to you. If the future of X is to be involved in half the planet’s financial transactions (or “some big number” to quote Musk), he demonstrating himself to be a scoff-law while starting a business that’s essentially an international bank with access to everyone’s account information.
As the hipsters like to say, “Nah, fam.”
A friend linked to a (rather old) twitter thread on Facebook. I clicked through, read it, and then… tried to click on the big ugly “X” symbol to close. I know better, of course, and people have already mentioned this stupidity here, but I was surprised at how natural it was to make the mistake.
Musk is blissfully oblivious to the fact that he is required to comply with a law.
News at 11.
Except you can’t link to the news.
(You can argue whether the law is sensible or justifiable. But it is the law.)
And he whines about not having ad revenue:
“They want us to pay them for traffic to their site where they make advertising revenue and we don’t!?”
Shouldn’t have been driving your advertisers away, Elmo.
What great bands have names incorporating a separate letter X? Bush X and XTC are okay. But none of the coolest groups did this to my knowledge. OTOH, all sorts of good groups use the word Twitter or are named after basketball players.^
^You haven’t heard of them? And I thought you were cool…
The coolest letter is sigma. It’s cred adds up. Unless you have six of them.
Not to stomp all over your point, but I question your knowledge of cool. X (that’s their entire name) started in 1977 and was one of the pioneer punk bands. They are indisputably cooler than most bands, and infinitely more cool than Musk or TPFKAT.
There’s also, currently, this fairly popular Persian techno-dance act.
My Tehran-born wife listens to them on the regular.
Back when I was in high school, when dinosaurs roamed the land, I though INXS was cool…
I thought the point of those laws is the fact social media sites DON’T drive traffic to news sites but instead use news headlines and snippets to drive user engagement (and ads) on the social media site. It’s the same as the way search engines try to answer you query without making you click through to a search result. Much better for Google if you continue looking at Google’s ads rather than some other website’s ads.
There’s also also Add N to (X).
See, now that is how to have an X as a logo.
Meh. X may be cooler than Bush X or XTC, but are not in the same league as The Nerves, Sex Pistols, Ramones or even the Stranglers. I’m sure they had a lot of local support. Anyone thought to ask them what they think of Musk’s metamorphoses?
I liked them quite a bit in the 80s, but after Exene Cervenka described a shooting a while back as a false flag operation, I’m not too interested in what she has to say.
When “local” means “Greater Los Angeles,” that’s a shit-ton of support.
Good examples …but the x is right there in the name for this one. Though I guess they don’t have it separate or capitalized or something like that
Dude, you were supposed to stop following her 40 years ago. I like to listen to my 80s punk playlist unsullied by the news that X are conservative whack-jobs or Killing Joke is full or anti-vaxxers. 
The lead singer of Killing Joke has always been a nut bag, he was convinced the apocalypse was just around the corner in the 80s. No slight on the music; Killing Joke was actually the first band I ever saw live, at Shitty Garbage. +1 80s trivia points to you if you know the venue I’m talking about.
Speaking of '80s bands gone wrong, seminal metal band Iced Earth broke up after its founding guitarist got arrested for trying to overthrow democracy and got put in the Witness Protection Program.
Who did he flip on to get this special treatment?