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Never.
Imagine being such a chode you throw away a great brand name that people have known worldwide for 18 years.
Elmo is a fucking moron.
The great brand that was twitter hahahaha
What’s the funny part? It’s literally globally known and had a great reputation among normies until the Great Chode Takeover
That’s what I’m getting at. The site itself was pure poison, but the logo, the term “tweet” was literally genius.
Twitter was great and I think anyone who thinks otherwise either curated it to be awful or didn’t really use it at all. Your Twitter experience was defined by who you followed. There was sports Twitter, political Twitter, science Twitter, weird Twitter…there were thousands of different spheres to put yourself in.
If you followed political accounts…yeah you set yourself up for a toxic experience. But I followed funny people so my experience was great. A seemingly endless series of one liners, comics, and weird observations.
I think anyone who thinks otherwise either curated it to be awful or didn’t really use it at all.
. . . or was targeted by harassment campaigns that the company did a poor job of protecting against. Plenty of celebrities and political actors realized they could weaponize their fanbases to go after critics, and Twitter never did much to stop it. For public officials or organizations, twitter too often was a cesspool of abuse that they couldn’t afford to leave, and that was messed up. (I think the balance has shifted now, that they can afford to leave and have a moral obligation to do so, but many haven’t.)
I always enjoyed my twitter experiences, because like you, I curated a nice feed to follow (and used a browser to keep on chronological timeline). But I was just a follower, mostly, and was never targeted by the really nasty stuff. But I’m not so myopic as to declare that what worked for me wasn’t awful for many other folks.
Twitter was no worse in that regard than any social media site until the 2016 election.
2016 was 8 years ago, that means by your definition twitter spent nearly half it’s existence as a toxic cesspool
and for a bland and meaningless name of all choices
Been too long since I have heard a good chode insult.
Brings me back, Xbox live just doesn’t have the same finesse in it’s trash talk these days.
I dare them to fully commit to this and disable the twitter.com redirector.
part of me wishes they did that, so maybe other websites would stop with the tweet linking and making entire articles around them
You could convince Elon to do this by telling him it would be terrible for internet preservation.
Oh my, you’re right.
If that doesn’t do it, I’m sure the fact that he can save about $5 per year to keep the domain name would.
Tell him it’ll be quicker and cheaper than flying to the data centers and pulling out cables by hand before hiring a random moving company to move servers with HDDs in them.
I did an internship in a small data center. That hurt to read. Made me miss the job too.
not really because twitter.com redirector still works properly
No, now that’s just a redirect. That’s like saying googel.com is the real site of google.com because it “works properly”.
Like I click Twitter icon from the verge website (https://www.theverge.com/contact-the-verge). it still works unless Elon want to kill twitter URL and force other company to migrate. which is quite crazy.
Neat.
Okeh.
And everyone will still call it Twitter.
Seriously, if I hear “X, formerly known as Twitter”, one more time… It’s been over a year. If people don’t know the name has changed by now, I don’t know what will help them.
It will never stop because X is a terrible name and means nothing without “formerly known as twitter”
Also it’s funny to deadname muskrat’s site.
It is Xitter where Xcrete posts. And always shall it remain.
So, since Elon doesn’t want it anymore, we could now reclaim the word “tweet” as a generic term for posting on social media, regardless of platform.
X-Com devs’ lawyers have entered chat.
Egosoft literally has a series of space sims just titled “X.” They get first dibs.
Ah, the best series I had no idea what I was doing in…
That was kind of the point though I guess. Don’t know how many hours I spent in X² just flying around doing nothing until I’d make a mistake and die.
Stop posting about Twitter this is t technology
Soooooo fucking annoying
Source:xkcdStill calling it Twitter.
“X, which is known as Twitter to everyone but Elon Musk…” - Chad the Bird
