Six months ago NPR left X. The effects have been negligible — X wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic

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• bappity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  it’s ok you can still call it twitter

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why should I call it that when calling it X devalues the company?

    The Twitter brand was the most valuable part of the business. If Elon wants to shoot himself in the nuts, I’m not going to stop him.

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    • ram@bookwormstory.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I prefer “X/Twitter/Whatever” for that same reason. Making it a confusing mess means “X” can never really be a valuable brand imo

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  • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s ok to call it by its real name “Shit Hole” as well.

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• WrittenWeird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  NPR doesn’t produce inflammatory, biased news and clickbait headlines, so this is not surprising in the least.

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• RandomPancake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I had a really old Twitter account going back to 2009, maybe 2008. I don’t even remember. Back then it was great for connecting with friends, making plans, meeting new people, etc. I hadn’t done anything meaningful with it in years so I logged in to see if it was really as bad as everyone was claiming.

  Narrator: It was.

  Within a month I was simultaneously a fascist, an anarchist, a bootlicker, a socialist, and a troll. I think I had posted a picture of a cup of coffee and maybe my cat.

  Deleted, moved on with life.

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• raptir@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They didn’t leave X six months ago, they left Twitter six months ago. The rebrand did not start until July.

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