When did we get away from saying “X - formerly known as Twitter” ? I liked seeing that gentle nudge in every headline.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2024
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No we’re past that point. I’d much rather call it X and have the people left on that awful network swallow the jagged X pill instead of kidding themselves into thinking they are still on Twitter.
They are Xers now.
I try to refer to it as Xitter. Posts are xeets.
I call them xcrements
It's better to call it X and not continue to soil the Twitter name.
Twitter was always shit.
Like all social media.
Yes, but at least it wasn't X.
How long do you do that for? He changed it to X who cares how dumb it is that is now the name.
Forever to make him mad
Never do what a billionaire wants just because they want that. Always make it upsetting for them
I still get emails from my dormant account, and according to my Gmail, the sender is, "X (formerly Twitter)," so I don't think we're done with that yet.
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I genuinely hope this platform burns to the ground.
I already lost all faith in it a long time ago, but kept my account to occasionally respond to a friend, or just look at feeds i don’t follow.
When he publicly reinstated fascists though, that was the last drop in the ocean of issues
The moment Musk fired engineers, I removed my account. Then I watched Twitter integration fail for a few applications Ive worked on, and removed that login/access.
From there, I watched multiple services fail. Ive watched spam bots take over. I watched drama after drama, Musk demanding weird choices like his tweets get priority.
It's such a mess.
Honestly I'm surprised it lasted this long since Musky bought it.
That just shows the strength of the Twitter brand.
and the people's inertia
Never going to happen. His other companies are highly successful and private so he can always borrow money to from other companies to keep twitter afloat
If that's what he's doing, he still wont sink money into Twitter forever.
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Tesla is not private. He borrowed a huge amount against his Tesla shares to buy twitter. That's one of the reasons he wanted that giant bonus. He needs the money to keep paying off the loans.
And it got approved so 🤷♂️
Schadenfreude intensifies.
The biggest loss here is that I follow a lot of artists on Twitter and when it goes kaput I won't have easy access to follow them.
Any chance they move to the fediverse?
Probably near zero chance. Fediverse is dead empty compared to the alternatives, so not ideal if they want to reach out to their fans.
You know, that's a bit chicken-egg, right? Like, platforms don't magically get users, those users need a reason to want to be there.
In my personal (and therefore, limited) experience, engagement is much harder to get in the fediverse. I hope it improves, but it's not easy to find people you don't know in order to follow them, and vice versa.
i think the reddit/lemmy format is more suited to following communities not people
And Lemmy doesn't have a button to follow individual users or have a multireddit, for them or for some communities. On Reddit I had my porn subs collected into one tab (+Friends tab) and this didn't show anywhere else, but there it's only solvable by creating another account on lemmynsfw for that while banning all porn on your main acc. Following one creator without their own /c/ is a problem.
IIRC Wordpress had plugins to autorepost into other places. Maybe if Lemmy had one, it could've been perceived as less isolated by OC authors. For now you need to put effort to post a thing there too, for the sake of a small 1 mil userbase.
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My bet is most will go either with bluesky or threads, because "everyone is (moving) there"
Quite a few of the artists I follow on Xitter have already prepared backup Bluesky accounts.
I bet they are all on bsky
The issue is that even if half of them go there, the rest are scattered to the wind, and you're not guaranteed to find them again.
Most people are on multiple platforms. Find them now, while you still can. Save whatever contact info you can for them. You don't know when you'll need it, nor why.
My artist friends were actually the ones to introduce me to bluesky! Some of those circles jumped ship pretty early.
I'd rather store my food in Jeffrey Dahmer's fridge than my money with Elon Musk's company.
That's why he needed such a high compensation package from tesla lol.
good
According to the article, the revenue is down 40%....But the costs are also way down? So this title is totally misleading, and a bunch of Lemmies are out here celebrating because they didn't put 2 and 2 together.
Lemmy is pretty biased and has unrealistic expectations. Like people here still think Reddit going to die, when the fact is we left over the API incident but we’re in the minority and the majority of people don’t care.
I can’t stand X or Elon, but it would be silly to not look at things objectively.
Mr/s. financial expert, how much is way down? How does the cost vs revenue compared? Is it a net positive or negative. I'll wait for you to put 2 and 2 together to see if I celebrate or not yet.
X lost half a billion dollars in the first quarter of 2023. Odd that the financial expert didn't mention this even though it is literally in the same sentence as the "40% drop in revenue" statement in the article.
I didn't even realise until the other day you need an account to use it now at all it seems.
So no surprise. In the past, I recall you could browse without a login.. so of course nobody is going to put ads on it
Also, why would you want those customers?
good riddance, black banana asylum. you won't be missed.
A time for celebration
that's a shame.. anyone up for boggle?
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