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Phenomena said:
I'm not very fluent in Chinese internet but I think QQ is the same over there: social network, payment processor, search engine, video and photo hosting, news aggregator and many other things.
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QQ is Tencent's previous, desktop centric social media and messaging everything app, including email too. WeChat is mobile-first and contains all that stuff, from payment processors, it's back compatible with QQ ID numbers as well. QQ was much more popular with millennials, who all made the jump to WeChat. It's the key pillar of digital life in China. In addition to being all of this, it's also RobinHood, an insurance platform, a Slack/work comms thing, a grocery store, a travel agency, food delivery, food reviews, a DouYin/Tiktok competitor, a livestreaming service, a game platform, a TV streaming service, a distinct app platform (just Tencent's shitty browser basically). It cannot be overstated how fucking dominant WeChat is. It's how you order food in restaurants, it's how you get into gyms, it's unreal when you think about both how central it is and how invasive it is, and also the insane springloaded convenience of it.

It is something I imagine a bug-life planner type guy like Musk would be into.
 
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SIMIΔN said:
He didn't want the workers, the brand or the advertisers.
What did he spend 30 billion on?
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The attention of millions of people? I mean he clearly doesn't confirm that but it seems like the only thing he enjoys. If he cared about anything else he could of just bought it, reshuffled the corporate structure, fired a few people, say people aren't going to be banned for wrong opinions and crackdown on some of the more obvious issues the site has like bots and blame the old leadership for them.

Considering what he has done with the site we're well beyond that point though. At the same time to be fair he was kind of forced into buying it to stop a legal battle and his whole idea of a good for everything "X" app was on the table even then.

This article on the matter of the purchase from October 2022 has aged quite a bit:
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Breadbassket said:
The attention of millions of people? I mean he clearly doesn't confirm that but it seems like the only thing he enjoys. If he cared about anything else he could of just bought it, reshuffled the corporate structure, fired a few people, say people aren't going to be banned for wrong opinions and crackdown on some of the more obvious issues the site has like bots and blame the old leadership for them.

Considering what he has done with the site we're well beyond that point though.
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I can see why Zucherberg is getting so much under his skin. They seem to be too alike.

Hope this x thing is just another Meta and goes nowhere.
 
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fuck Twitter, I've been banned since 2020 despite repeated appeals and not actually doing anything wrong

if Elon is systematically trashing the site out of pure spite (which appears to be the case), GOOD.
Fuck all the trans troon trannies and sjw cunts that had free reign on that shitstain of a platform. I hope they all seethe themselves into oblivion
 
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GenociderSyo said:
Isn't a rebrand this drastric ususally a death to a brand? People know twitter was the blue canary not as an X symbol that looks like it came form a go-go bar.
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yeah
people were already weirded out when cuckerberg renamed facebook corporation to "Meta"
but at least the zuck had enough sense left in him to not rename the actual site itself. facebook is still facebook, instagram is still instagram.
 
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ForgedBlades said:
Musk will surely be the end of Twitter.
Unbanning all the rightoids will surely be the end of Twitter.
Cleaning house and firing everyone will surely be the end of Twitter.
Getting rid of the legacy verification system will surely be the end of Twitter.
The rate limit will surely be the end of Twitter.
Twitter Blue will surely be the end of Twitter.
Threads will surely be the end of Twitter.
X will surely be the end of Twitter.
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software lingers on in zombie mode for years, it doesnt flip a sign from “open” to “closed.” MySpace continued existing for years after it was acquired by Murdoch, long after traffic tanked and the site lost any relevancy.

I havent even read about twitter switching to X on any of the mainstream media sites I read. After following every step Elon made with bated breath less than a year ago I now have to hear about Twitter updates on kiwi farms. Loss of media relevancy, loss of advertisers, loss of traffic, X is well on its way to myspace-dom even if the lights will remain on for the foreseeable future.
 
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Solid Hyrax said:
Twitter is going to have trouble changing their name in Japan (one of their biggest audience outside the US) due to the fact that X Japan is already trademarked:
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By a rock band? Trademarks are industry specific so probably not an issue. It's how Apple Records and Apple Inc. can live side-by-side.
 
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