Owner of @x Twitter handle says no one reached out ahead of Twitter's rebranding to 'X' (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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Beyond the missteps with the rebranding, others are pointing out that Musk's move to rename Twitter "X" may involve a financial hit to the brand's value.

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[-] AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Oops I destroyed the most media integrated free speech tool in the world. Darn I was really trying to make more money too.

[-] -spam-@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe destroying it was the point, wasn't he financed by people who would have an interest in suppression of free opinion sharing?

[-] LazaroFilm@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yep. From the start. His goal is to make twitter suck more and more.

[-] thingsiplay@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

@stopthatgirl7 While it sounds funny, until you realize, its also scary how rich people can just purchase and destroy any platform.

[-] i_failed_turing_test@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

They can't exactly buy lemmy or mastadon, since it's hosted by the community...

[-] thingsiplay@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@i_failed_turing_test The kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon projects could be purchased, the maintainer payed to work for the companies, the community hosted servers can still be buyed out. I know this is not likely to happen. But saying it's not possible is not correct. Money is a hell of a drug.

[-] Unaware7013@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The nature of it being an open platform is if they buy out the maintainer of kbin/Lemmy, anyone with the skill can fork the projects and keep it running open source. Individual instances can be bought out and killed, but the base platform is effectively unlikable in the way Twitter is being killed.

[-] wave_walnut@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

for further information:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/25/twitter-changes-its-official-handle-to-x/

[-] lvl@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Well, that didn't take long, the @x handle is now an official X-Twitter account!

[-] Cat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@lvl, I hope they didn't just seize the account.

[-] Unaware7013@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I would be very surprised if they didn't

[-] Cat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well that didn't take long. They seized it. I just saw this post about it.

[-] WeDoTheWeirdStuff@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

He doesn’t “own” anything.

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