Yeah dude, it’s the brand that’s the problem, you’ve figured out out.
After this, everyone will love it.
Mmusks new ideas
Submitted 1 year ago by BlackRose@slrpnk.net to technology@lemmy.world
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332@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Chozo@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yep, just like all of Facebook's problems went away after they renamed to Meta. Turns out it was all just a bad brand image to begin with! Nothing to do with out of touch billionaires running companies into the ground, just slap a new logo on it.
okamiueru@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Could “Billionaire X’s latest stupid remark” not be a headline? Not asking much, just that, and world peace.
Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 1 year ago
It’s not “news” either.
fubo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dude needs to stop posting every time he tries a new psychedelic.
BitingChaos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Please welcome the new “Truth Social 2.0”!
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The content is becoming that, but since it’s Musk, the name will probably be ”8008Z 420”
riskable@programming.dev 1 year ago
No, it’ll just be shortened to, “Twit” and the bird logo will be replaced with his face.
Well, that’d be the most appropriate new branding anyway.
MisterMoo@kbin.social 1 year ago
Pravdanet
mmorschel@feddit.de 1 year ago
If not for Elon I wouldn’t have gone to Mastodon and in extension to Lemmy.
So, this is kinda nice. :)
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Really wish this was a PSA-type ad campaign, throw in Reddit -> Lemmy and warn the overlords their days and dollars are numbered.
sol@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
This makes you wonder what their real plan is. They have everyone data, they know what people do and their preferences, they act after these not before
xantoxis@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Ideas for the new logo? I think he should go with a black-red motif, with lots of right angles.
ArugulaZ@kbin.social 1 year ago
We'll call it the Musk-stika!
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Take your upvote and get out!
Teon@kbin.social 1 year ago
I did na - zi that coming.
anubis119@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A Phoenix perhaps.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lol, spend billions to make a brand. Then overhype it, pay inflated price to acquire said brand and now decide to kill the brand. Master genius!
influence1123@psychedelia.ink 1 year ago
Buy high sell low. He must have learned from r/wallstreetbets
sirboozebum@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Double burn.
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Quick, our ad revenue is shrinking, what do we do? Restricting people from seeing tweets and defeating the whole purpose of why they’re on the platform didn’t work (yet)!”
“I’ve got it, we get rid of the whole name. From now on companies will say to follow them on X! That won’t lose them any viewership at all!”
“But if they’re going to mention a new name to people anyway, wouldn’t this be the perfect opportunity for them to leave for another platform? All they have to do is say to follow on them Mastodon instead of X”
“Fire them, now.”
madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
8D Bingo!
FreeloadingSponger@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The poes law on Musk tweet screenshots is through the roof. I have absolutely no idea if this is real.
FrankFrankson@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh it’s real. It;s part of Musk’s whole stupid “X the everything app” bullshit he has been talking about for years. He is a huge moron. I mean the first sentence in the description of the site for his new company xAI is: “xAI is a new company founded by Elon Musk that sets out to understand the universe” …he is such a fuckin loser.
Imma make a company called yAI and our goal is going to be to solve all the problems everyone has ever had. Don’t ask me how yet because that doesn’t matter but the solutions will involve AI and my genius ability to solve all the problems. All banks give me money now please thank you.
Zormat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
If all these scientists and engineers are so much smarter than Musk, how come they never had the idea to just understand the universe? 🤔
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
vAI so you get called on before Elon in alpha(betical) order.
SwallowsDick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Exactly what I thought
squoop@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Allowing Elon Musk to run a company is like electing a kid who thinks the government should give everyone free icecream and make crime ok on Thursdays.
Someone needs to find him a role where he can feel like he’s helping without getting in everyone else’s way.
PowerSeries@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I mean that role was SpaceX. Give them lots of money and get cool rockets. It was going great, and it was great for his image as it’s not very political. But I guess he got bored.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When you see what a massive moron he is it makes you wonder all of the people behind the scenes at spacex that had to deal with his stupid and make the company succeed despite him.
scottywh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think the people working at SpaceX are probably glad Elon has his mind and hands preoccupied with other stupid shit so he’ll leave them the hell alone.
Can you imagine if he were as convinced that he needed to have his hands in every little piece of that pie?
It would probably be a complete disaster.
simplify@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Don’t insult the kid like that. They are nothing alike!
mrgreyeyes@feddit.nl 1 year ago
All the employees left are just doing what he says without any questions. It’s becoming malicious compliance and I love it.
“You want our recognizable blue bird to be replaced by an X?.. You’re the boss!!”
anlumo@feddit.de 1 year ago
He fired everyone who tried to question him on the spot, sometimes even by public tweets.
dragontamer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Except that one guy who had a long-term contract with Twitter. He was threatened to be fired by Musk. Then he showed off a huge $hundred-million portion of his contract if he were ever laid off or fired, and suddenly Elon Musk treated him with a lot of kindness and respect online.
AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 1 year ago
Old mate certainly has birds flying around in his empty head, that's for sure
MossBear@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The 52 year old cringe-lord ladies and gentlemen…
phillycodehound@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Honestly it’s better off that he changes the name. It’s not really Twitter anymore.
Ddhuud@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They’re saying adieu to the brand alright.
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 1 year ago
Oh boy, he’s about to do something stupid.
VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yes, it's ... let me check the calendar ... a day, do obviously he's about to do something stupid.
ArugulaZ@kbin.social 1 year ago
Then back off when it proves to be a failure... then come back to that very bad idea when nobody's looking, because he really, really wants it.
hydro033@kbin.social 1 year ago
Didn't he say a long time ago it's going to become "X"
30isthenew29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Such a stupid name too.
PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Aww, that’s our billionaire!”
(Laugh track plays as Musk’s mom leans against the door frame and smiles.)
ArugulaZ@kbin.social 1 year ago
This wasn't as good as that other sitcom with Mark Zuckerberg in it. You know, Small Wonder.
Furbag@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You can polish a turd, but at the end of the day it’ll just be shiny shit.
Rebranding won’t save the sinking ship that is Twitter. Making it a better platform might actually save it, but Musk is not interested in that, he just wants to make money.
Vlyn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The way Musk is leading Twitter he’s either a moron or trying to destroy the entire service.
Maybe someone called him a slur in a tweet and now he wants to remove the entire platform? Who knows. Though we was mostly the guy calling others pedos…
SeaJ@lemm.ee 1 year ago
He paid $21 billion of his own money for it. That was like 10% of his wealth at the time. It also had a negative effect on Tesla’s stock price. He lost a lot of wealth because of this.
I think it is more likely that he did not intend to purchase it and was initially just trolling. But someone filed the legal paperwork and he had to go through with it.
goodnessme@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Why not both?
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
why not? totally worked for
facebookmeta.
HeavenAndHell@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And he wants to replace it with “X”
You know the actual thing he was in “charge” of back in the paypal days? How creative.
The platform Twitter wasn’t perfect, but the brand is pretty recognizable and it made sense.
Nutteman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fucker is OBSESSED with that letter
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 1 year ago
Ok, dude has gone sailing off the deep end. He’s been tweeting absolute nonsense for the last two hours, including one that says “ I am become meme, Destroyer of shorts” and seemingly asking for submissions for an X logo to replace Twitter and that one will go live tomorrow, and has said he’s drunk. Hooboy
SpicyPeaSoup@kbin.social 1 year ago
This is the guy who's known to manipulate stock prices by doing stupid things, no?
MelonTheMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is he threatening birds?
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Under screenshots of his tweets it must put also one the source. With him and trump i could never understand if it was a fake edited tweet or a real deranged tweet
RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Tweeting will now be called x’ing I guess. Let him ruin his little garbage patch. Meh.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why is Musk obsessed with the letter X anyway? It’s like he saw two lines and said, “this is the pinnacle of mankind!”
brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Wait they’re rebranding??
chokidar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is that code word for running it into the ground?
Haibane@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Imagine spending 44 billion dollars to buy a unprofitable service and then announce a year later that you are rebranding and ditching the IP you paid 44 billion dollars for. Madman genius or dude with toilet water in his cranium?
chairman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Twitter is folding into Truth Social. You hear this here, FIRST!!!
wtry@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Mastodon’s gonna get a lot of traffic
NeutralFlame@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Twitter had a great thing going on. It was not perfect but I never thought it would get absolutely ruined in such a short amount of time
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just like a year ago it was considered an essential part of modern discourse and society. The media was heavily dependent on Twitter. If Elon had simply kept his stupid mouth shut, he wouldn’t have been forced to buy the company, let alone for such a high price. Once purchased, if he had been less of a maniac and just managed Twitter in a boring way that maintained the status quo, then it would still be better off today than it currently is. Everything Elon has done has made the company less valuable.
downpunxx@kbin.social 1 year ago
on purpose. by design. with intent.
Wayward@compuverse.uk 1 year ago
If Musk just shut his face and kept doing his thing, he would have been a historic figure. Not Edison or Tesla famous, but like an Alexander Bell tier name sure. Especially if his Mars plans panned out. But dude wanted to be Tony Stark and forgot that Stark was charming and likable (in the movies at least) and he… is not.
sol@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
He’s one of the richest men in the world, you are not even a billionare. Can you really point out that his business is off?
The guy is doing exactly what they want to do, if they are letting the platform fall off like that is because that’s what their goal is. They build monopolies.
PatFussy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I dont understand this sentiment. When Jack Dorsey sold twitter he wanted it delisted so someone could make it more publicly owned. He thought Elon could do that and so it was sold. Its essentially the opposite of what Reddit is trying to do.
If Elon comes in amd says “this company needs to change or else it wont survive” i would believe that. People are essentially mad that the company doesnt have investor funding.
anlumo@feddit.de 1 year ago
No, once purchased, the problems were already insurmountable. The company was bought on company debt, meaning that it was in deep shit on day 1 of him owning it. It wasn’t profitable before that move, and adding a ton of debt didn’t improve the situation.
All moves Musk did are essentially cost-cutting measures (except for the ones where he’s trying to establish it as a social network for Nazis).
Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
It’s interesting how everyone keeps saying it’s ruined while I personally don’t notice any difference. If I didn’t read posts about it on reddit/lemmy I wouldn’t know any changes have been made
Ds4zkMjT@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pushing blue checks to the top of every comment thread has amplified the worst voices on the platform.
supersonicsonarradar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can you describe how it’s been absolutely ruined?
Shikadi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
No way to verify accounts, weird paywalling, pay for views, losing tons of money, mostly just that
squiblet@kbin.social 1 year ago
Sorting Elon stans to the top of reply chains is a negative change. Hate speech is now only regulated for Liberals. Also, they ruined the entire concept of verification.
0000000nowhere@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Twitter was a cesspool, good riddance
sj_zero 1 year ago
Companies change hands. Governments change parties. People seem to forget that, and they want to hand absolute power over to their buddies in companies or in the government, with no regard for those facts.
Remember what happened here, and know that it can happen again at any time.
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s probably because all the pictures of Elon and this lain would post. I’m sure he’s destroying it out of ego