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rm_dash_r_star ,
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Um yeah, I’m not seeing that. You can see monthly active users on the-federation.info/platform/21 and it’s been fluctuating up and down, no big jump. So I call bullshit on that article based on the metric there. Though no doubt as Twitter (X) implodes Mastodon will see the fallout with higher activity.

Whirlybird ,

Twitter hasn’t even rebranded yet and an article like this comes out? Jumping the gun a bit don’t they think?

99% of the people that were leaving twitter when musk took over are still there. They’re too invested to leave. People like Steven King just keep making fools of themselves by still being there 12 months later complaining about how bad Twitter is.

Onii-Chan ,
@Onii-Chan@kbin.social avatar

These people are addicted to such a degree that they're functionally on the same level as literal junkies, just without the physical damage. Social media was such a fucking mistake, and I don't think we're ever going to recover from it within our lifetime.

Ted Kaczynski was right.

PizzasDontWearCapes ,

These people are addicted to such a degree that they’re functionally on the same level as literal junkies, just without the physical damage. Social media was such a fucking mistake,

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Onii-Chan , (edited )
@Onii-Chan@kbin.social avatar

I mean, yeah. The only 'social media' I have is kbin, and I check it once or twice a day. If it went anywhere, I wouldn't really give a shit, as I left all the major platforms years ago and adding one more to that list wouldn't bother me. Don't group me in with Twitter (x?) users because I called them out on their addiction, when I've already done what they seemingly can't.

PizzasDontWearCapes ,

Check out the app or webpage, they’ve already put in the temp X logo

Whirlybird ,

The app is still called twitter with the twitter logo, at least on iOS.

PizzasDontWearCapes ,

Well they started taking down the Twitter sign at HQ, so it’s happening

Whirlybird ,

I’m not denying that it’s happening, I’m simply saying that the rebrand hasn’t even happened on the main way people interact with twitter, yet we have article after article saying that people are leaving in droves because of the rebrand…that they haven’t seen yet.

DmMacniel ,

It did though? Twitter.com no longer shows the bird (replaced by an X). It’s loading screen is a stylised X. And x.com points to the same server.

Whirlybird ,

The app is still called twitter with the bird logo, at least on iOS.

Also what it’s called is irrelevant. It’s still twitter, it’ll still behave the same, it’s still got the 500 million users. Why would anyone leave a platform simply because it changed names and url?

DmMacniel ,

What it’s called isn’t irrelevant. Twitter blue, tweeting, Twitter and tweets are all linked to Twitter and not to X. And X is what it’s called now. So post on X and follow me on X.

Just because the App on iOS and or android haven’t been updated to reflect that change doesn’t mean it hasn’t been rebranded yet.

How it will affect the users? Well that’s to be seen. The first waves of Userscripts surely will follow soon to replace X with the bird in browsers.

Edit: just checked the twitter App on the android play store may still be named by such but is now owned by X Corp. The most generic name ever.

Whirlybird ,

Why is what it’s named relevant? Twitter blue will be renamed. Functionally nothing will change.

all-knight-party ,
@all-knight-party@fedia.io avatar

Usually a rebrand signifies a change in the direction or focus of the brand. I don't keep up with it much, so on a surface level this rebrand seems like more of a "I like it better this way" on Elon's part than a true rebrand with a point and reason.

Umbra ,

Apparently this is all part of some grand master plan. Maybe Elon will pull it off???

Acamon ,

Lol

iwan2c ,

ain’t no way

echo64 ,

His master plan sure does seem massively reactionary for a master plan

FIST_FILLET ,
@FIST_FILLET@kbin.social avatar

name a single grand master plan that elon has ever pulled off

gerbler ,

Financial suicide?

zomtecos ,
@zomtecos@feddit.de avatar

Still waiting for Teslas driving from west to east coast completely autonomously. And Elon flying to mars.

BeigeAgenda ,
@BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca avatar

One way ticket to Mars, make it happen!

Umbra ,

Weren't all his companies successful in the end?

julianh ,

The companies he took over after they were were founded?

Umbra ,

Okay? Taking over a company, growing it, and then selling for huge profit is still good business sense.

PizzasDontWearCapes ,

He’s a douchebag and takes too much credit for the engineering that has made them successfull, but SpaceX has delivered some next-level rockets and Tesla has been very successful creating a new market niche and selling a ton of cars

Catch42 ,
@Catch42@kbin.social avatar

Uh, the first one. It's all downhill after that. It's the only one he's ever pulled off. Look at the goals for the master plan part 2 and you'll see that they haven't managed to do a single one, but Elon still went ahead a published a part 3. Why actually meet goals when you can just pretend you've met them by posting new ones, I guess.

AlternatePersonMan ,

I can’t fathom that anybody could be this stupid. Does he have a reason to purposely destroy Twitter?

The decisions he’s making aren’t just bad, they’re the worst possible ones that he could make. As in, he gathered a group of experts and these are the best ways to destroy Twitter that they could think up.

floofloof ,

Some people are suggesting he ran up so much debt buying Twitter that he’s now running it into the ground in order to declare bankruptcy and not have to repay the debt. I don’t know how plausible this is.

gndagreborn ,
@gndagreborn@lemmy.world avatar

I wonder if that would be taken to court if true.

floofloof ,

I imagine it would be hard to prove, because he would never admit it was intentional, and he’d never have to tell anyone else that in order to execute the plan. It can look like a series of blunders either way.

Hiccup ,

Totally could be pulling a Sears/Kmart and an Eddie lampert.

Andjhostet ,

He was paid to tank Twitter.

theneverfox ,

Exactly!

More are more I’ve been thinking - he watches anime, he thinks current social media is incredibly dangerous, and (while he was always a dick in private) he only really showed the current Musk after meeting Trump.

We know musk watches anime - it’s like the zero requiem. First, he becomes a folk hero, a billionaire putting his weight behind important tech for humanity. Then he meets Trump - maybe he realized how dark our prognosis as a species is.

He starts driving away his left-leaning futurist and techy core with bigotry and being a dick. He backs out of a plan to buy Twitter, violates his parole, and makes a big show about trying to get out of it… But what did he actually do besides complain it’s full of bots, then give up?

He walks in with a kitchen sink, drives away anyone who can afford to leave or might resist a stupid order, and settles in.

For months, about every two weeks he’s been doing something to wean users off Twitter, while making a big show of some increasingly obviously dumb ideas. Like seriously, his business is ads - it makes so little sense that he limit users to such low limits - even subscribers could eat through that easily

He lies through his teeth and says it’s working, he’s almost breaking even, that users and advertisers come crawling back… Exactly what u/spez and every other social media guy desperately want to believe - the only thing standing between them and profit is telling their users to suck it

Now he finally admits they’re in terrible shape, making his last fanboys look like idiots, and making himself look not only erratic and out of touch, but like a bad businessman.

To totally parallel the requiem, he needs to topple all the billionaires before staging his death - leaving the world in shape to rebuild, and very wary of the dangers of wealth inequality.

Or at least make us actually unite and change the laws and economic system.

Or maybe he’s just having a midlife crisis, hates Twitter, and is just burning money for the hell of it. And the attention.

samokosik ,
@samokosik@lemmynsfw.com avatar

Maybe if twitter keeps fucking shit up, mastodon will become mainstream haha. I would certainly love to see that.

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