Elon Musk Twitter

[GMDino]

(07-06-2023, 06:42 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I was wondering if today was the first day of Threads, because I had literally never heard of it, only to see it mentioned constantly all day today.

I guess the Zuck was not a fan of Elon challenging him to a fight.

More of Musk not paying his bills.

But I'm sure Musk the genius businessman has his next brilliant step in the rebuilding of Twitter all ready to go.

Or at least someone will be along to defend him...lol.

[basballguy]

(07-06-2023, 08:27 PM)GMDino Wrote: More of Musk not paying his bills.

But I'm sure Musk the genius businessman has his next brilliant step in the rebuilding of Twitter all ready to go.

Or at least someone will be along to defend him...lol.

We don't have to defend him.  You look silly enough hating on a billionaire all by yourself.

You seem to envy musk a bit. Here's some reading material that may help you deal with this problem:

https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/how-to-avoid-the-trap-of-envy.html

[*Nately120*]

(07-06-2023, 11:31 PM)basballguy Wrote: We don't have to defend him.  You look silly enough hating on a billionaire all by yourself.

You seem to envy musk a bit.  Here's some reading material that may help you deal with this problem:

https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/how-to-avoid-the-trap-of-envy.html

Don't bother envying any man who has strained relationships with people he knows in real life and spends all of his time arguing right wing crap on the internet.  Yes, even if he has a billion bucks.
- Jesus

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(07-06-2023, 11:31 PM)basballguy Wrote: We don't have to defend him.  You look silly enough hating on a billionaire all by yourself.

You seem to envy musk a bit. Here's some reading material that may help you deal with this problem:

https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/how-to-avoid-the-trap-of-envy.html

H was mocking Musk whose supposed business acumen begins with not paying his bills and who is propped up by the right wingers who claimed that he was “going to save free speech”

[GMDino]

(07-06-2023, 11:31 PM)basballguy Wrote: We don't have to defend him.  You look silly enough hating on a billionaire all by yourself.

You seem to envy musk a bit.  Here's some reading material that may help you deal with this problem:

https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/how-to-avoid-the-trap-of-envy.html

There it is.



I gotta admit though using the BIBLE to show me how to not be envious of a billionaire took some hutzpah. 

[GMDino]

https://www.ktvu.com/news/x-formerly-twitter-installed-a-lit-up-sign-atop-its-hq-not-everyone-is-thrilled

Quote:X, formerly Twitter, installed a lit up sign atop its HQ, neighbors aren't thrilled
By Freddy Brewster
Published July 29, 2023 12:13PM
Updated 2:14PM
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X, formerly Twitter, installed a lit up sign atop its HQ, not everyone is thrilled
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, debuted a new sign atop its headquarters in San Francisco Friday night by blasting lights illuminating the X logo. Christopher Beale, a journalist, producer and audio engineer with KQED, lives across the street from the building and said he saw construction on the building throughout the week and on the rooftop, but was not expecting the bright lights. "Around 11 last night they had it at full blast, strobing, and it lit this entire area up like it was daylight," Beale told KTVU.
SAN FRANCISCO - X, the company formerly known as Twitter, debuted a new sign atop its headquarters in San Francisco Friday night by blasting lights illuminating the X logo.


Elon Musk, former X CEO who purchased Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, shared video of the new sign on his X account which shows the sign’s lights pulsating in the night sky. 

The new branding attempts are already marked with controversy. 

The City of San Francisco on Friday launched an investigation into the new sign, stating that replacing letters or establishing new signs on buildings requires a permit and an inspection to ensure it is structurally sound. 


San Francisco police stopped workers on July 24 from removing the Twitter bird and logo from the side of the building because the sidewalk was not cordoned off to keep pedestrians out of harm’s way if anything fell. 
Musk said the building owner has repeatedly called the police. 


"He keeps calling the police about our sign modifications," Musk tweeted on Saturday. 

The City of San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection on Monday said that they received two complaints regarding the work on the sign and were awaiting guidance from City Planning on whether a permit is required to alter the copy on an existing sign.  


DBI did not respond to a request for comment regarding the lit up sign as of press time. 

Christopher Beale, a journalist, producer and audio engineer with KQED, lives across the street from the building and said he saw construction on the building throughout the week and on the rooftop, but was not expecting the bright lights.


"Around 11 last night they had it at full blast, strobing, and it lit this entire area up like it was daylight," Beale told KTVU. 
"Even with the shades down…, it was to the point where we couldn't even watch the movie we were trying to watch in the living room and we had to move to the other side of the apartment."   

Beale shared video of the new sign’s light blasting into his window on X, formerly Twitter. 


"This is my life now," he captioned the video. 


Beale said he also saw crews Friday night working on the white Twitter sign on the side of the building. As of now, he doesn't plan on filing a complaint with the city. 


"I'm a little annoyed by it, but I'm a journalist, so I kind of just document things and I figure one of my one to 2,000 neighbors will handle the complaint to City Hall," Beale said. "I'm definitely not a fan of its location."

X / Twitter won't let city building inspectors check out the giant X logo on the roof of their HQ

inspectors have been denied access for the past two days upon visiting to inspect the structure https://t.co/bqc1JXuUbn pic.twitter.com/93R0bieIfs

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) July 30, 2023

 

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(07-30-2023, 09:40 PM)GMDino Wrote: https://www.ktvu.com/news/x-formerly-twitter-installed-a-lit-up-sign-atop-its-hq-not-everyone-is-thrilled

X / Twitter won't let city building inspectors check out the giant X logo on the roof of their HQ

inspectors have been denied access for the past two days upon visiting to inspect the structure https://t.co/bqc1JXuUbn pic.twitter.com/93R0bieIfs

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) July 30, 2023

 

The large and bright 'X' logo that sat on top of the San Francisco HQ of the company formerly known as Twitter has now been taken down https://t.co/uN11Vce86Z pic.twitter.com/8ikrRmWw98

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) July 31, 2023

  

[GMDino]

"What a genius move!"  ~ Absolutely nobody.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/2/23816924/twitter-x-blue-subscribers-hide-blue-check-option

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Twitter / X Blue subscribers can now hide that they’re paying and avoid the memes.

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Twitter Blue, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X Blue, now includes the option to hide the notorious blue checkmark. Twitter Blue subscribers recently started noticing the “hide your blue checkmark” option on the web and in mobile apps, offering the ability to hide that they’re paying for Twitter and avoid memes about how “this mf paid for twitter.”


“The checkmark will be hidden on your profile and posts,” notes a Twitter support article. “The checkmark may still appear in some places and some features could still reveal you have an active subscription. Some features may not be available while your checkmark is hidden.”



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Twitter previously used a blue checkmark verification system for account recognition or credibility, but when Elon Musk started allowing anyone to be “verified” through a Blue subscription it briefly descended into chaos with fake accounts. 
Then everyone soon realized who was paying to be verified on Twitter before Twitter eventually removed blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts and changed how verified checkmarks were displayed multiple times. Blue checkmarks are also assigned to users with one million or more followers.

If you subscribe to Twitter Blue the service will now add an optional blue checkmark to your profile with a “verified since” date attached. Legacy verified accounts include the date an account was originally verified on Twitter before the Blue subscription system.

Twitter owner Elon Musk is currently rebranding the service to X in a bid to create an “everything app” that will likely include some form of a payments system in the future. The little blue bird disappeared last week, replaced with an “interim” X logo that briefly appeared on top of Twitter’s San Francisco office building in the form of an extravagant flashing and strobing X sign. There are still plenty of places where X refers to Twitter, and even the X Blue subscription page mentions Twitter Blue plenty of times.

[GMDino]

"Sure there is hate speech and porn and spam, etc...but you can make it so YOUR ads rarely appear next to it!"

Musk is a real genius! 

"X" management acknowledges that there is "targeted hate speech" on the platform, but offers a service to keep advertisers' messages away from it.https://t.co/9378pPtHt1 pic.twitter.com/wjhKeyCy1N

— davidrlurie (@davidrlurie) August 8, 2023

 

[*Nately120*]

(08-08-2023, 09:39 PM)GMDino Wrote: "Sure there is hate speech and porn and spam, etc...but you can make it so YOUR ads rarely appear next to it!"

Musk is a real genius! 

"X" management acknowledges that there is "targeted hate speech" on the platform, but offers a service to keep advertisers' messages away from it.https://t.co/9378pPtHt1 pic.twitter.com/wjhKeyCy1N

— davidrlurie (@davidrlurie) August 8, 2023

 

I like how the "conservative" option is the one you choose when you don't want your ad next to hate speech.

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X (Twitter) was fined $350,000 for failing to respond to a subpoena for Donald Trump's tweets and direct messages by a court ordered due date

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/twitter-served-warrant-trumps-account-january-fined-350k-delay-court-filing

[GMDino]

(08-09-2023, 06:17 PM)pally Wrote: X (Twitter) was fined $350,000 for failing to respond to a subpoena for Donald Trump's tweets and direct messages by a court ordered due date

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/twitter-served-warrant-trumps-account-january-fined-350k-delay-court-filing

Not only is he a genius but he's brilliant with money too!

"Free Speech!"

[*pally*]

In this weekend's news of how Elon is running whatever the hell we call it now into the ground, he has decided to eliminate user's ability to block and mute others. Protests are being made from all points on the political scale, so I guess we can give him some credit for a unifying proposal. Elon, in his usual irony, is blocking people who protest the loudest

[GMDino]

(08-20-2023, 09:23 PM)pally Wrote: In this weekend's news of how Elon is running whatever the hell we call it now into the ground, he has decided to eliminate user's ability to block and mute others.  Protests are being made from all points on the political scale, so I guess we can give him some credit for a unifying proposal.  Elon, in his usual irony, is blocking people who protest the loudest

Then he went on a blocking spree of accounts complaining about it.  

And, as the community notes on his post said, he can't do that or it will be removed from the app store and google play.  The block function is a requirement to be included on those sites.

[GreenDragon]

Don't call it "X". Ever.
If Elon wants to dead name his kid, I'll dead name the company he's burning down.

[*Nately120*]

(08-23-2023, 01:43 PM)GreenDragon Wrote: Don't call it "X". Ever.
If Elon wants to dead name his kid, I'll dead name the company he's burning down.

On a business level, what he is doing breaks so many business rules.  Paying a premium price for a brand only to fundamentally alter it and rename it rather that just building a brand makes absolutely no sense.  It'd be like paying $8 billion for the Dallas Cowboys and then changing them to the Montana Maulers and making them an XFL team.

[basballguy]

(08-23-2023, 03:11 PM)Nately120 Wrote: On a business level, what he is doing breaks so many business rules.  Paying a premium price for a brand only to fundamentally alter it and rename it rather that just building a brand makes absolutely no sense.  It'd be like paying $8 billion for the Dallas Cowboys and then changing them to the Montana Maulers and making them an XFL team.

I don't believe he bought the "brand" but more he bought a platform with immediate access to hundreds of millions of users.

However, if he DID buy the brand, is there anything about the word "Twitter" that makes you think positive thoughts?  Musk himself was a vocal opponent of Twitter leading up to the purchase.  You don't usually see new leaders come when companies are performing at peak lol.  So with that thought in mind, rebranding would make total sense.  

[*Nately120*]

(08-23-2023, 03:35 PM)basballguy Wrote: I don't believe he bought the "brand" but more he bought a platform with immediate access to hundreds of millions of users.

However, if he DID buy the brand, is there anything about the word "Twitter" that makes you think positive thoughts?  Musk himself was a vocal opponent of Twitter leading up to the purchase.  You don't usually see new leaders come when companies are performing at peak lol.  So with that thought in mind, rebranding would make total sense.  

That still doesn't make sense to me.  In that case, it's like a vegan buying McDonalds for billions of dollars and then converting the brand he hates into a tofu and sprouts selling chain.

And if Twitter wasn't well regarded and not at it's peak, Musk really overpaid for it, which he did and he knows it and we all know it.  I don't use Twitter, and I don't drink Coca Cola, but I know that buying the entire brand and then changing it is bad business. 

[basballguy]

(08-23-2023, 03:53 PM)Nately120 Wrote: That still doesn't make sense to me.  In that case, it's like a vegan buying McDonalds for billions of dollars and then converting the brand he hates into a tofu and sprouts selling chain.

And if Twitter wasn't well regarded and not at it's peak, Musk really overpaid for it, which he did and he knows it and we all know it.  I don't use Twitter, and I don't drink Coca Cola, but I know that buying the entire brand and then changing it is bad business. 

Interesting analogy.  So what you're suggesting is was previously a platform that clearly catered to a certain demographic (carnivores?) and afterwards it's become a platform catering to a completely opposite demographic (vegans)....

I think what's really happening is some people got used to going to the food court at the mall and every option being McDonalds.....now they got some Chick Fil A, Chipotle, and Panda Express and are completely bewildered by it and maybe accidentally call it all "Vegan" because they don't really understand the new and different foods just yet.  :)

But then again you might just literally be talking about the "X" brand/logo and the "Twitter" brand/logo.....in which case my analogy may not make complete sense

[*Nately120*]

(08-23-2023, 04:15 PM)basballguy Wrote: Interesting analogy.  So what you're suggesting is was previously a platform that clearly catered to a certain demographic (carnivores?) and afterwards it's become a platform catering to a completely opposite demographic (vegans)....

I think what's really happening is some people got used to going to the food court at the mall and every option being McDonalds.....now they got some Chick Fil A, Chipotle, and Panda Express and are completely bewildered by it and maybe accidentally call it all "Vegan" because they don't really understand the new and different foods just yet.  :)

But then again you might just literally be talking about the "X" brand/logo and the "Twitter" brand/logo.....in which case my analogy may not make complete sense

What Elon is giving people already existed before he bought Twitter, and that is a social media platform that caters to the right wing and uses the concept of "free speech" in it's marketing.  He bought Twitter for a premium price and then changed it to resemble something that he could have made himself or purchased for a much lower price.  You don't buy a brand so you can completely alter it, you either buy a brand that is within the scope of the one you want to make/promote, or you start your own.

Elon could have made what he has right now from scratch or purchased Parler and called it X from day 1.