After Musk’s mass layoffs, X says it’s expanding safety and election teams

X, née Twitter, greenlights wider range of political advertising.

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[crazycracker]

If you still use Twitter for some reason, don't forget to use an ad blocker.

 

[JustARandomGuy]

X, née Twitter
X, the social network that most people still call Twitter

This is why I Ars. Keep this up, please.

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Do you know if any app started replacing the bird logo with black-and-white one?

 

[rain shadow]

When I see the X in the upper right corner of an embedded tweet, my visual instinct is that it is a "close window" button.

 

[GreyAreaUK]

Do you know if any app started replacing the bird logo with black-and-white one?

Amazon have.

 

[nikakd]

X, née Twitter
X, the social network that most people still call Twitter

This is why I Ars. Keep this up, please.

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we could just called it the social network hosted in twitter.com, since apparently firing all your engineers doesn't match well with having someone who knows how to change the url

 

[papito10]

Why even call the site X to begin with? Does Elon get angy and threaten news outlets that still call it Twitter or something?

Musk has a juvenile obsession with the letter X. The oversized teenager thinks it's "cool".

X, Space X, Model X.

 

[rain shadow]

Musk has a juvenile obsession with the letter X. The oversized teenager thinks it's "cool".

X, Space X, Model X.

Named his child X Æ A-Xii

 

[Varste]

I say we all eschew journalistic standards for once and just continue to say Twitter, and ignore the X. Two reasons: everyone already does, and it would probably upset Musky.

 

[Celery Man]

Up to you to decide how widely your principles apply, of course.

Principles you only apply to some situations aren’t principles at all.

 

[AmanoJyaku]

Up to you to decide how widely your principles apply, of course.

I don't see the problem. Twitter is fine with deadnaming.

Twitter removes policy against deadnaming transgender people

 

[caramelpolice]

It is a lot like referring to a person in their preferred way.

X is not a person and continuing to call it Twitter is in no way comparable to deadnaming trans people.

 

[GreyAreaUK]

So far the replies are that people would respect a person's chosen name only if:

Twitter/X is not a person. That should be all the clarification anyone requires.

 

[AmanoJyaku]

The problem is that, over time, lots of fences accumulate, and the reasons for erecting them is lost. You end up with layers and layers of legacy garbage. Sometimes the quickest way to clean up is to remove the fence, and find out if it has any use at all

As Elon would say: if you are not re-adding removed parts, you are not innovating fast enough.

Playing around with code like this is incredibly dumb. There are other ways to determine if something is useful, and we've all seen what happens when you "innovate" fast: crash, upon crash, upon crash. That may be fine for Musk, since he doesn't seem to care about Twitter being available and making a profit. But the rest of the world needs reliable software.

 

[Kommet]

So far the replies are that people would respect a person's chosen name only if:

• They give the same respect to others.
• It is only for themselves, not their company.
• They are transgender.
• They are not a billionaire.

"Corporations are people, my friend."
-Mitt Romney, 2011 -Don Reba, 2023

 

[Shavano]

Why am I not convinced that this is going to work as intended?

I am. I just assume Musk will continue to intend the same kinds of things he's intended from the start.

Sure the linked story mentions the nearly 80% staff reduction, but it don't include the number of contractors that were also cut. It's a far larger swath of layoff and destruction than the ~6,000 mentioned, per Ars at least another 5,000 contractors were cut. No way that could have any impact on operations... none.... well maybe just a little.

Well now that there are fewer advertisers and fewer users to manage, it should be fine. /s

 

[jefito]

Because officially that's the name of the site, so journalists with any skill or integrity state that. Then the journalists with humor add in the "...which most people call Twitter", which is perfect.

I prefer the Prince-inspired "X, the web site formerly known as Twitter"...

 

[Shavano]

Playing around with code like this is incredibly dumb. There are other ways to determine if something is useful, and we've all seen what happens when you "innovate" fast: crash, upon crash, upon crash. That may be fine for Musk, since he doesn't seem to care about Twitter being available and making a profit. But the rest of the world needs reliable software.

But do they need X.com's software, whether or not it's reliable?

 

[jefito]

The correct spelling is Xitter, which has a Mandarin pronunciation and an English meaning.

Not sure what the English pronunciation should be, but I'd lean towards 'ex-itter", a nod to the folks who've moved on from X.

 

[gosand]

Why am I not convinced that this is going to work as intended?

It will work as intended, just not as advertised.

 

[Veritas super omens]

Hire people? Who on earth would agree to work for Xwitter?

You'd have to be pretty desperate knowing that:
1) Every aspect of your job and work life is subject to the petty whims of CEO child, and
2) You're likely never going to see a dime of your salary, even if you sue.

The same stupid lawyers that get stiffed when the orange douche or Ellison hires them?

 

[Veritas super omens]

The correct spelling is Xitter, which has a Mandarin pronunciation and an English meaning.

My only regret is I have but one upvote to give.

 

[EnPeaSea]

Musk has a juvenile obsession with the letter X. The oversized teenager thinks it's "cool".

X, Space X, Model X.

Further evidence of adolescent mentality, he made the car series S, 3, X, Y (Because "E" was taken by Ford).

 

[Embattle]

Window dressing.

 

[mpfaff]

So far the replies are that people would respect a person's chosen name only if:

• They give the same respect to others.
• It is only for themselves, not their company.
• They are transgender.
• They are not a billionaire.

You can respect a person's chosen name if they're a person. X (the company not Elon's kid) isn't a person. Calling a website by its old name isn't the same as intentionally making a trans person feel awful because you don't like trans people.

 

[s73v3r]

Oh that is delicious.

So out of respect for Musk, we should not do that, because he doesn't like referring to people in their preferred way. People like his own daughter.

 

[papito10]

Further evidence of adolescent mentality, he made the car series S, 3, X, Y (Because "E" was taken by Ford).

Oh God, you are right. Sarah Silverman was right - how is someone with like a dozen children still acting like a sex-obsessed incel?

 

[s73v3r]

The company I work for is trying to encourage us to move to some app-based healthcare provider to replace routine visits to our primary care provider. Before signing up, I carefully read through the terms of service, because I’ve found some nasty surprises in the terms of service for other healthcare systems. As expected this one has mandatory arbitration, but it further goes to great lengths to prohibit any coordination of arbitration cases or mass arbitration cases. I noped right out of that one, but as companies see the kind of mass arbitration that Xitter and others are dealing with, I expect to see more of this.

I fail to see how that could possibly be enforced. If you're the second person to be screwed over by a policy, does that mean you just don't get to enact action at all?

 

[s73v3r]

Yeah. A few people replied that they won't show respect to someone who won't show the same respect to others. Seems like a common attitude.

Well, yeah. Why should you expect to receive respect that you don't give to others?

 

[EternalStudent07]

Why maintain (and keep) a known good resource, when you can rebuild it from the ground up?

"Wheel Re-Create Inc." ???

 

[mobby_6kl]

You can respect a person's chosen name if they're a person. X (the company not Elon's kid) isn't a person. Calling a website by its old name isn't the same as intentionally making a trans person feel awful because you don't like trans people.

But have you considered that still calling it "Twitter" makes Elon feel awful because we don't like his shitty site?

 

[cbreak]

Musk has a juvenile obsession with the letter X. The oversized teenager thinks it's "cool".

X, Space X, Model X.

"A recent study showed that nine out of ten millennials prefer smoke signals over social network X"

 

[AmanoJyaku]

Further evidence of adolescent mentality, he made the car series S, 3, X, Y (Because "E" was taken by Ford).

I suspect Musk is pissed Audi already has the TT.

 

[EnPeaSea]

You can respect a person's chosen name if they're a person. X (the company not Elon's kid) isn't a person. Calling a website by its old name isn't the same as intentionally making a trans person feel awful because you don't like trans people.

I go out of my way to indicate how little I respect some people, like "Grimes' ex-boyfriend" or "Inmate P01135809", but I'll still use their correct pronouns!

 

[whitetigersx]

This is inaccurate, Twitter also calls itself Twitter

At least on the mobile web where the little "download the app" banner tells me that Twitter is better in the Twitter app than on https://twitter.com.

He fired the people responsible for that?

 

[Kenjitsuka]

X, née Twitter,​

Say it like it is!

 

[Sjoerd Verweij]

Wasn't there something like "rake the forest floors so there won't be any more forest fires"?

I believe it was phrased more like "California is having so many forest fires because they're too lazy to rake the forest floors, as opposed to Finland".

I had to look that up and I need a shower just reading it all over again.