Calling it a “plan” is quite generous.
Comment on Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 year ago
This has been his plan since a long time ago, he’s just following up on it now edition.cnn.com/2022/10/05/tech/…/index.html
NinjaAssassinKitty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pattern@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is what has me convinced that this whole thing isn’t 4D chess to eliminate Twitter as a tool of left wing speech and organizing. He loves the whole “X” concept. Rebranding Twitter to X feels too authentic to be a cynical destruction of the platform.
ericisshort@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But it goes back much further than that. Musk wanted to rebrand PayPal X before they ousted him as CEO more than 20 years ago. He is so proud that he bought this domain in the 90s that he just keeps trying to make it a thing despite the inherent ambiguity.