# Now that Musk bought Twitter -- Breaking News only **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** breaking-news, elon-musk\ **Created:** [November 29, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737 "2022-11-29T13:10:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/341 "2023-07-19T21:28:35Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Twitter is not working for me. I can see some tweets but when I try to look at individual user accounts it’s blank. Same. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/342 "2023-07-19T22:47:15Z")
Working just fine for me (3:46pm, PDT) ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/343 "2023-07-19T23:03:38Z")
Me too, but maybe the difference is mobile v desktop? ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/344 "2023-07-19T23:06:37Z")
IIRC didn’t Twitter announce that they’re going to start requiring you to be logged in in order to view tweets? Could that be the problem? ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/345 "2023-07-19T23:25:04Z")
Not working for me not logged-in. Twitter started requiring log-in to view tweets a couple of weeks ago. Then about a week later, Twitter semi-worked without log-in - could view tweets from accounts, but only by going to account through a tweet, and only a few tweets from an account were displayed. That lasted about a week. Since the last day or so, one can view Twitter accounts without log-in, but no tweets from those accounts will be displayed. Situation is constantly changing. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/346 "2023-07-19T23:47:23Z")
[Nitter.net](http://Nitter.net) (a Twitter repeater) now works again. [http://nitter.net/scalzi](http://nitter.net/scalzi) for example gets Scalzi’s tweets ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/347 "2023-07-20T00:18:45Z")
Thanks, it is. I was looking at nitter.it ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/348 "2023-07-20T00:21:33Z")
This sounds a bit moribund: > **[Twitter loses nearly half advertising revenue since Elon Musk takeover](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66217641)** > > Elon Musk confirms the firm has a heavy debt load and income in June was not what had been expected. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/349 "2023-07-20T00:36:12Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > Really the only one you need. “I didn’t get that reference.” Together with one instance of “I got that reference!”. The reference in question was to Wizard of Oz, which was of course familiar to someone from the WWII era. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/350 "2023-07-23T22:04:44Z")
Goodbye, Twitter? > **[Elon Musk Claims Twitter Will Soon Be Renamed ‘X’](https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-renamed-x-elon-musk-1235677741/)** > > Goodbye Twitter, hello X? Elon Musk, the multibillionaire who controls Twitter, said the social network he took over in October 2022 will be renamed “X” — relegating the cute litt… ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/351 "2023-07-23T23:28:24Z")
Now that’ll make searching easy. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/352 "2023-07-23T23:37:58Z")
Probably no worse than “the who”. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/353 "2023-07-23T23:56:39Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Goodbye, Twitter? - > > [Elon Musk Claims Twitter Will Soon Be Renamed 'X'](https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-renamed-x-elon-musk-1235677741/) So instead of “tweeting”, people will “X it”? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/354 "2023-07-23T23:57:57Z")
Trademarking a letter doesn’t sound like it’s gonna be very easy to me. There’s a reason there aren’t any big corporations named “M” or “H”. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/355 "2023-07-24T00:01:50Z")
Microsoft has a trademark for “Series X” A company called “ETS” has a trademark on X in certain contexts. Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/356 "2023-07-24T00:13:32Z")
To say nothing of the X-Men, Weapon X, Racer X, the Monster From Planet X, X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes, the X Games, and so forth. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/357 "2023-07-24T00:14:23Z")
X-Windows, from 1984 [X Window System - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System?wprov=sfti1) ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/358 "2023-07-24T00:14:25Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trademarking a letter doesn’t sound like it’s gonna be very easy to me. There’s a reason there aren’t any big corporations named “M” or “H”. c’mon guys/gals … lets not pretend elmo has really thought this trough … He is slowly becoming the V. Putin of Social Media Comps. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/359 "2023-07-24T01:04:22Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > lets not pretend elmo has really thought this trough … Now _that_ is a great typo. Thank you! > [@Al128](#): > > He is slowly becoming the V. Putin of Social Media Comps. Elon’s Special Media Operation is going as well as Vladimir Vladimirovich’s is. I wonder who plays the role of Prigo in Muskland? Is there a mutiny in the offing? ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/360 "2023-07-25T18:08:46Z")
X Japan is the trademarked name of a Japanese band. X videos is, well, you know … X itself is a well-known punk band. Not sure this is going to work all that well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737.md?page=19)