X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts::X is rolling out a new terms of service on September 29th, and one adjustment is a single instance of “retweet” to “repost.” There are other changes regarding data scraping and class action lawsuits.

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    1 year ago

    Nothing says marketing genius like throwing away one of the most recognisable brands in the industry and replacing it with “X”

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      1 year ago

      When your brand gets to the point where it turns into a verb why on earth would you ever torpedo that?

      It’s like if Google changed their name to “search” and prodded people to say “just search it” instead of “just google it”.

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        1 year ago

        It’s even worse. It would be like Google changing their name to Y and telling people to “just search it”.

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    1 year ago

    Here’s a low stakes conspiracy. Musk went all in on the “Birds aren’t real” thing, and is now trying to erase birds from the internet.

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    1 year ago

    Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.

    Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.world
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    X has now become just like any other social media platform. Posts are just called “posts” just like anywhere else.

    Looks like Elon Musk has become the Elongated Muskrat once again.

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    1 year ago

    Enjoy the show, this pyre is fucking massive. Literally turned a brand that became engrained into culture and destroyed it in record time.

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    1 year ago

    So if they have publicly abandoned the Twitter brand identity, can someone else use it?

    Because a lot of people are ready for a retro clone.

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      1 year ago

      Start calling everything posted online a tweet and eventually it’ll become a generic trademark.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe I missed the joke, but Twitter no longer has stocks since Elon took it private.