Musk dumps remaining Twitter-branded stuff in auction
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I guess he also should sell the X branded stuff – he will not need it in the future!
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He almost certainly thinks that x.com would have been an amazing success, but he was kicked out of PayPal and couldn't implement it. This time no one can do that, so it'll be an amazing success.
Being in touch with reality isn't one of Musk's strong suits. I have my doubts he's even capable of it.
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In other words, we have an idea but don't understand what it will take to make it happen. It's amazing to see such a great business mind at work.
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Snarky Robot
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I will say that Yaxxarino does a good job of selling the “true believer” vibe. I hope for her sake that it’s skill in advertising causing this, not actual brain worms that cause her to believe it.
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So much office and break room furniture is listed it makes me wonder if the San Francisco office will be closing in September. I haven't seen a follow up to the story about Musk not paying his rent either. X HQ to move to Texas?
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I really hate that Musk has basically ruined Twitter--I wasn't a frequent Tweeter myself but I followed some. Now it's a sh*thole. The X thing was the final straw that made me delete the app from my phone.
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Musk is showing his commitment to transform the microblogging app into an irresistibly convenient platform where people can go to text, call, pay, shop, bank, and post online.
Irresistible. I don't think so Elon.
Irresistible. I don't think so Elon.
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For those of us of a certain age, "Brand X" was always the inferior competitor's product in TV ads. Now they say things like "other popular brand" or whatever when comparing dishwasher detergent or floor cleaner etc.
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Swapping a highly recognized name and logo, that many company would die to have, in exchange for something as generic as "X" is nuts. "X" logos are a dime a dozen.
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I feel like Musk is reliving that scene in The Office when the Michael Scott paper company goes to the bank.
"The more you sell, the more money you lose."
"The more you sell, the more money you lose."
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My job is fixing the American healthcare system, and even I don't talk about accomplishing our physically impossible mission in these delusional tones.
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Tate brags about being a billionaire what with a bugatti and a rolex and cuban cigars, and somehow $20K makes a difference to him? Something doesn't add up, no surprise.
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I let my Twitter account go fallow, but I logged in yesterday to check out a hashtag because of a pretty nasty storm we got yesterday. The app has become unusable - you get nothing but weirdo blue checks replies at the top, and ads are not marked Promoted, so you’re just inundated with piles of NFT and crypto ads intermixed with people sharing photos of localized flooding.
Coincidentally, I got a Bluesky invite last night, so we’ll see how that works out.
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So, according to the sacrificial CEO, after buying Twitter for $44billion to 'accelerate' x.com, The company formerly known as twitter is moving away from the social media product, the only product that was worth $44 Billion? What was the point of buying a social media company as the foundation of a company that doesn't want to do social media? Or is she talking products read users? Therefore saying that by rebranding, they can focus on the hard right political messaging that represents the new product they intend to sell to advertisers? Either way, not encouraging to advertisers Twitter wants to woo back, nor to encourage users who abandoned twitter to try out the "everything" app.
If they didn't want to be held back by the 'old mindset and products' of twitter, Musk should have built it himself. Musk has explicitly stated he believes Meta, with the help of the old twitter employees, who are useless and don't work mind you, to rebuild the framework of twitter in six months. In the time hes been burning cash, with the best and brightest and hardest working twitter employees, building a skeletal twitter that had none of the old mindset and wasn't the old product could have been done by now.
At X we consider what is possible, and making an everything app is in the abstract possible. The impossible incremental steps between where we are now and the future we project are not being considered.
Fuck. Investors and Advertisers need to look at that sentence and really consider the implications for their money and/or brands.
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I really, really want off Twitter. But unfortunately for some communities, and obnoxiously enough, companies, it's the only place to go to get information about what's happening with them. (Your company has a website, please post news to it!)
It's part of the reason why I keep diving into the comments on Twitter articles, I keep on hoping to learn about a replacement. But as long as people are only posting stuff to Twitter, I kind of have to keep checking it.
And there are things like this. The local NWS office posts alerts to Facebook and Twitter, but only on Twitter could you rely on seeing them. Well, used to be able to. On Facebook, the algorithm might decide that you don't need to see a severe thunderstorm warning until three days after it ended. And Twitter used to be the place to go to find out about weird local events. What's up with all the helicopters? Why are there a ton of police cards headed in one direction? A search on Twitter often gave the answer. No longer.
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It just dawned on me that this is happening the day after Yaccarino declared that they're very close to breaking even. They're just assuming someone is going to pay a couple billion dollars for the auction items.
Yup. As a raging narcissist, Musk can't ever admit that his "greatest idea" is a complete flaming turd. If/when this current iteration of X goes bankrupt, he'll spend a decade or two licking his wounds and then trying again, probably telling himself that the previous attempt was foiled because Twitter was a lost cause from the start, and not really his fault. It's a bit like how Trump's final words on his deathbed won't be loving words to his family. It'll be that he totally won the election in 2020.
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Citation needed, Yaccarino.
Seriously, how long is the list of people earning anything meaningful at this point?
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I wonder when they will sell the name twitter. That should bring in a lot of money.
In regards to the everything app, that is a pipe dream as it will likely be hacked. Why hack many places to get financial information, when you can only hack one.
In regards to the everything app, that is a pipe dream as it will likely be hacked. Why hack many places to get financial information, when you can only hack one.
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If you’re up for it, I started a thread in the lounge for Bluesky users to post their names. Also to share invite codes. So far, I’m the only actual user to post in there.
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That bit frankly has to be the hot favourite for best decision made during this entire mess.
They probably still have a shitload of now-unused office stuff leftover from the mass firings, and one guy left in the Facilities department running around trying to get it somewhat organised and catalogued enough to sell, inbetween dealing with whatever dumb idea of the day is being thrown at him by Musk.
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Muskhack: bid a negative number so that he's paying you to remove them.
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Wouldn't it be funnier for someone to purchase it... and not take it down? Maybe just get a city sign permit and keep it up as a cultural icon?
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They’ll let you know as soon as their payments arrive.
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Finally! A way to video chat without giving out my phone number! Also: What's this thing called "Zoom"? I keep hearing that word but have no idea what it is....
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they don't mean irresistible in the sense that everyone will want it, but rather that we will not be capable of mounting a successful resistance against their platform when it comes for us
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Interesting, however the owner of the building would likely object, and they likely have more say in this situation.Wouldn't it be funnier for someone to purchase it... and not take it down? Maybe just get a city sign permit and keep it up as a cultural icon?
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Buried in this is the hilarious tidbit that they will "revenue share" $10 for 5M views. That is orders of magnitude less than any other social media website. How could that possibly incentivize anyone to use the platform?
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You're asking the wrong question, my friend. What can't you do with a podium with the bird logo? House podia never went out of style. In a pinch, you could use it for a lectern!
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