Hilariously enough there is a chance that, since Twitter is incredibly fucking popular in Japan, the stupid rename will lead to Twitter Japan being known as X Japan... which is the name of one of the most famous rock bands in Japan.

Amazing foresight by Musk, literal brain genius

"Thanks for the name, idiot. You want all this Twitter shit we're throwing away?"

https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-take-x-handle-from-original-user

Elon's sycophants getting pretty tinfoily once again. These morons will never be satisfied lol

Strangely, banks sometimes refuse to deal with people because of things they said, too. Like "I hate paying my bills on time" is a good example.

is it back or is this just another case of the twitter backend struggling for eventual consistency?

who knows!

even the backend people at twitter might not. could be an issue with something no one left at the company knows about, or it could be elon making changes to prod directly without telling anyone. they'll know when he tweets about it, same as everyone else

this man is the biggest idiot there is. here's a little story.

we are all pretty sure that the spark that lit the fuse here was the @elonjet account. the world's richest man was furious that some teenager was using publicly available data to report publicly on the movements of his publicly registered airplane through public airspace (this reaction was caused by amphetamine-induced paranoia).

first he tried to give the kid a tesla, an offer which was sensibly declined.

then he tried to pay him off for reportedly some amount under $10,000, which was also declined. after this rejection elon had a poopants hissy fit and started buying up twitter stock through third parties, accumulating nearly 10% of the company and failing to disclose same in the legally required way. presumably he was planning to gain some amount of leverage with the company and force them to disable the account.

a few months later, it became apparent that elon was doing this.

the twitter board, sensibly not wanting to let musk start dictating terms, agreed on a plan. they would invite elon to join the board, but simultaneously implement measures that would prevent him from owning more than 15% of the company.

when elon heard what the board had in mind, he shit right through the seat of his pants, got blasted on adderall and ketamine, and ordered his lawyers to make an offer to buy the company outright. we all know how it proceeded from there.

but that instigating event, the elonjet account. how he was so mad that anyone could track his jet and see where he was going?

the FAA already has a program to let aircraft owners obfuscate transponder IDs. you apply for the program and after some back and forth you can have an alternate id that is not registered to you in the civil aircraft registry.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy

elon musk actually did enroll in this program, but the incompetent yes-men who work for him bungled the job and didn't program the alternate id into the plane correctly, letting the @elonjet account continue to track him.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kx8wa/emails-show-spacex-bungled-elon-musks-private-jet-privacy

a month after elon discovered this fuckup, he started buying twitter stock.

the end

big ol' lol, but you know, not. because he did that, and he's done it to others, and he keeps doing it, and no one is going to stop him

and no one is ever going to try to sue him for defamation again after what happened to vernon unsworth

Everyone asking what kind of person would still work at Twitter, now you know.

"Hunt Hunt the woke bird. Skin em alive and eat them bones!!! I do this act for Elon!"

https://fortune.com/2023/07/26/passionate-elon-musk-employees-are-coating-the-twitter-offices-in-black-paint-and-boasting-about-hunting-and-eradicating-remnants-of-the-twitter-bird/

lmao it just keeps getting dumber and dumber

https://mashable.com/article/xai-twitter-handle-elon-musk-x

the whole article is a good read, really covers just how much of a dipshit musk is, and why his stupid 𝕏 app is going to crash and burn like one of his rockets

https://wheresyoured.at/p/the-rot-king

Just a normal day on Twitter-X-Stormfront spaces

Republicans who hated big tech suddenly go...."Huuummmm maybe big tech Ain't so bad......"

Banning accounts that report on Nazis now

https://splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/07/27/neo-nazi-ex-marine-buys-land-rural-maine-blood-tribe

Very well thought out rebranding

its funny because certain their project manager types, probably the first to get let go, did shit like preventing this and every other rookie thing elon does to the website, idiot proofing what bosses want to implement

Wow that is about as obnoxious as it's possible to be

https://nitter.net/itsmefrenchy123/status/1685177000913502209

Gee I wonder why

we've found the shithead big enough to make everyone root for the landlord

weird how elon and david sacks keep hosting weirdo fringe republicans

inscrutable politics

They're still called "retweets" when you open a tweet though

lol that it's taking them so goddamn long to change these things

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/28/business/starlink.html

"On March 17, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, the leader of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, dialed into a call to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Over the secure line, the two military leaders conferred on air defense systems, real-time battlefield assessments and shared intelligence on Russia’s military losses.

They also talked about Elon Musk."

The giant X strobe light is even worse than you could imagine

https://nitter.net/realchrisjbeale/status/1685353135236403200

Musk is threatening to *not* leave san francisco and making fun of his landlord for crying over his ~amazing sign~

He's just fucking with people now for fun. He is a legit psychopath.