That would require Musk to either be intelligent or willing to listen to people who are and I’m unconvinced he’s either.
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R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year agoIdk why he couldn’t have just created a new @ equivalent for his X accounts or whatever he’s doing. A $ sign would work, or a +, -, *, !, anything really. If he’s trying to make these be the “official” accounts then they don’t need to use the same @ symbol.
stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 1 year ago
R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I think the real problem is that Twitter’s account URLs are like twitter.com/username. They haven’t given themselves any wiggle room to mess with stuff like this.
stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 1 year ago
I don’t know if that’s as big a problem as you think. Assuming they have not previously allowed special characters at the beginning of Twitter handles (I don’t know whether they had the foresight to do this), they could use a character that was disallowed previously and is a legal character in URLs and then include that special character in the URL path so that it would be twitter.com/~user/ or whatever. This would only be applicable to new official accounts and would not break URLs for existing users.
User_4272894@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Love the idea of Twitter advertisers becoming $username, !username for public figures, and +username for Twitter blue subscribers. It also means it would be super easy for people to write scripts to filter out certain users.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 year ago
$ is already used for stock tickets and such. For example $AAPL
whatsarefoogee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because he wants to be the original, damn it!
“But mom, I want to be a Tesla founder!”
“You weren’t there when Tesla was founded”
“I want it anyway, waaaah!”.
He has the emotional maturity of a spoiled child. Once you see it, everything he does makes 10x more sense.