Mastodawn

Germ Jul 23, 2023

X. 🙄

Why didn't Elon just start his own social network. Surely that would be cheaper than buying an established one and eviscerating it down to what's essentially a beta for something else.

#Twitter
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/23/23804629/twitters-rebrand-to-x-may-actually-be-happening-soon

Twitter is being rebranded as X

X.com now points to following repeated tweets about it by Twitter owner Elon Musk early Sunday morning alluding to the fact, while also calling for a new logo design.

The Verge

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Wm Slothrop

@germ If the people who funded this purchase cared about the business side of it, they’d have intervened by now to stop him from setting their money on fire. This was about destroying Twitter as a forum for global dissent; whatever he does with the ruins is an afterthought.