Makes sense though. Was an opinion piece out before Musk lost the court case and had to purchase Twitter discussing how pretty much all of Musk's ideas of how a social media site should operate were outdated and already tried, tested, and proven commercially failures from the beginning period of social media sites.
Nice touch from the artist resembling logos as hair styles. Elon branding everything as "X" is not new and quite predictable by now. I just realized x dot com redirect to Twitter.
Nice touch from the artist resembling logos as hair styles. Elon branding everything as "X" is not new and quite predictable by now. I just realized x dot com redirect to Twitter.
The redirect began sometime Monday. But yeah, Musk's obsession with X is not new. With him being a founder of the banking site X.com and after the merger with Confinity Inc. (owner of PayPal) in 2000 he tried to rebrand PayPal to X until a corporate coup removed him as CEO (perhaps why he makes or takes companies private). Focus groups at the time even then were not fond of the X naming, as it has too much of an association with pornography.
Can see his obsession with X else where though. You have his companies X.AI and SpaceX. His kid named X Æ A-12, which I think they said they use X for short. He renamed the conference rooms in Twitter HQ with names like "eXposure," "eXult," and "s3Xy."
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