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The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

Do it for the ~~Vine~~ X. Just doesn't have the same ring to it. (Or a different ring cough.)

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[–] paf0@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I suppose that's better than being a 'white supremacists first platform' but I bet they'll probably still do that too.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (15 children)

If he built X.com as a video sharing site to rival YouTube instead of rebranding Twitter and turning it into a Nazi bar, I think people would have a more favourable view of him.

Musk can have good ideas but he's being blinded by his own hubris.

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[–] ExLisper@linux.community 23 points 10 months ago

So can we now stop embedding Twits in articles instead of simply including the pictures?

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

In a few more months, it will turn into world's most serious scientist's exchange, and next year (if it's still not dead) it's going to evolve further into a platform for testing and comparing children's games of different cultures and hair colors.

[–] Elliott@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I'm still not convinced this wasn't just an effort by Saudi Arabia to dismantle the platform.

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[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 17 points 10 months ago

"Pivot to video" - How many popular sites turned to shit and died 15 years ago.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A few months back and he was driving his employees to produce banking apps and god knows what else. I wonder what they think of their mercurial asshole boss who'll demand everything all at once.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

It's "just" programming, how hard are can it be the program the app that does everything? /s

[–] Chessmasterrex@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

It's not a video service, it's a pile of poo.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] ech@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Something that I feel needs to be reiterated with all of these "news" pieces - the "71% drop" everyone is touting is from the stupidly high price Musk bought Twitter for that only ever represented his desire to flex, not the value held by the site itself. Even Musk knew it wasn't worth that much and tried desperately to get out of the deal himself.

[–] Clent@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Twitter was trading around $40 at the time he made the offer for $54 per share. At the current value, that equals $15 per share. The last time Twitter was trading at that value was 2017.

These are all rough numbers based on some graphs I looked over quickly.

If you want to play devils advocate on this topic you should understand what you're talking about.

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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There sure is a lots of video with young looking girls on there, but I'm not sure why anyone would be advertising that.

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[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

X, the platform formerly known as twitter, is now dealing in sour grapes.

[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Elon, put down the crack pipe.

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[–] crackajack@reddthat.com 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This might work but on the other hand, the brand name "X" doesn't have a nice ring for the younger generation unlike TikTok or even Vine. "X" is so.... Gen X...(sorry, boomer for the young 'uns for everything before 2010).

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