When did we get away from saying “X - formerly known as Twitter” ? I liked seeing that gentle nudge in every headline.
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I still get emails from my dormant account, and according to my Gmail, the sender is, "X (formerly Twitter)," so I don't think we're done with that yet.
EX-twitter.
I still prefer 'Xitter'
No we’re past that point. I’d much rather call it X and have the people left on that awful network swallow the jagged X pill instead of kidding themselves into thinking they are still on Twitter.
They are Xers now.
How long do you do that for? He changed it to X who cares how dumb it is that is now the name.
Forever to make him mad
It's better to call it X and not continue to soil the Twitter name.
Twitter was always shit.
Like all social media.
I genuinely hope this platform burns to the ground.
I already lost all faith in it a long time ago, but kept my account to occasionally respond to a friend, or just look at feeds i don’t follow.
When he publicly reinstated fascists though, that was the last drop in the ocean of issues
The moment Musk fired engineers, I removed my account. Then I watched Twitter integration fail for a few applications Ive worked on, and removed that login/access.
From there, I watched multiple services fail. Ive watched spam bots take over. I watched drama after drama, Musk demanding weird choices like his tweets get priority.
It's such a mess.
Never going to happen. His other companies are highly successful and private so he can always borrow money to from other companies to keep twitter afloat
Tesla is not private. He borrowed a huge amount against his Tesla shares to buy twitter. That's one of the reasons he wanted that giant bonus. He needs the money to keep paying off the loans.
And it got approved so 🤷♂️
If that's what he's doing, he still wont sink money into Twitter forever.
You are underestimating musks infantile need to show the world he's not a failure.
Honestly I'm surprised it lasted this long since Musky bought it.
That just shows the strength of the Twitter brand.
According to the article, the revenue is down 40%....But the costs are also way down? So this title is totally misleading, and a bunch of Lemmies are out here celebrating because they didn't put 2 and 2 together.
Mr/s. financial expert, how much is way down? How does the cost vs revenue compared? Is it a net positive or negative. I'll wait for you to put 2 and 2 together to see if I celebrate or not yet.
X lost half a billion dollars in the first quarter of 2023. Odd that the financial expert didn't mention this even though it is literally in the same sentence as the "40% drop in revenue" statement in the article.
Well yeah, but means the platform is not growing
How much more growth could Twitter have anyway?
Anyone who was interested either had one or had sworn it off well before Musk got involved.
The only thing that changed for me personally was I could previously see tweets from people without having an account, now I can't, so I don't click on twitter links at all. All of the businesses and public services previously announcing things on Twitter do it elsewhere now anyway for that reason.
The biggest loss here is that I follow a lot of artists on Twitter and when it goes kaput I won't have easy access to follow them.
Any chance they move to the fediverse?
Probably near zero chance. Fediverse is dead empty compared to the alternatives, so not ideal if they want to reach out to their fans.
You know, that's a bit chicken-egg, right? Like, platforms don't magically get users, those users need a reason to want to be there.
i hope plunging means up, and 75 means 200