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submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

Changing Its Name Tanked X’s Downloads in App Store and Play Store::Link to: https://www.threads.net/@eric_seufert/post/CwAiop2OM8U/

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[-] DragonAce@lemmy.world 76 points 10 months ago

I know this is all just Elon's ineptitude on full display, but there is still part of me that thinks he was paid by certain governments to tank the platform.

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago
[-] dragontamer@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago
  • Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud
  • The Qatar Investment Authority
  • Binance
  • Andreessen Horowitz
  • Sequoia Capital
  • Larry Ellison
  • Jack Dorsey
  • Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays (owner of loans)
[-] Jamie@jamie.moe 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If I understand the news on the matter clearly, he still has one last appeal to overturn his purchase. I think he's hoping to reverse Twitter back to the old owners in a demolished state as a middle finger.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 75 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Imagine being out of the loop and then being faced with the prospect of downloading "X - Blaze your glory!" when it comes up randomly in your search for twitter.

Fucking trainwreck.

[-] raunz@mander.xyz 53 points 10 months ago

Come on Elon change the domain. Just do it, it'll be fine! SEO will be fantastic!

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 20 points 10 months ago

Kind of a pointless stunt if he doesn’t change the domain. What’s even the point of rebranding when your URL points to the old one. Can this clown do anything right? How he became the next messiah to millions will always elude me.

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago
[-] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 1 points 10 months ago
[-] scytale@lemm.ee 44 points 10 months ago

It would even be better if they remove all references to twitter on the app stores so the X app doesn’t come up when searching for twitter.

[-] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Cat pics are much higher on my list of priorities than “blazing” my “glory”. What even is that? Is it a sex thing? It’s a sex thing, isn’t it? Brb, gonna go blaze myself in the glory.

[-] EricKendrick@feddit.uk 12 points 10 months ago

I’m sure the full phrase it references is “going down in a blaze of glory”, and is just Elon’s edgy nod that he is catastrophically destroying the platform, but just enough deniability In case it all works out and is a success.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ooooh.

I thought it was about hotboxing a glory hole booth.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Doesn't that expression have connotation with "fighting to the bitter end"?

Twitter's situation with Musk is less one of fighting to the last breath but going down none the less (taking as many of the other side as you can), and more one of suicide by incompetence.

[-] onionbaggage@lemmynsfw.com 28 points 10 months ago

Wow. Who could have predicted that!?!?

[-] emptyother@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Anybody with half a half-brain?

[-] Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 18 points 10 months ago

Too much musk news. Had a dream less than an hour ago where i ended up in a car with elon. He started peacocking and got violent when i brought up zuck.

While it was a neat experience to beat up musk in a dream, id rather not have him in my dreams.

[-] harcesz@szmer.info 13 points 10 months ago

Short thread on Threats followed by a paywalled article - is there maybe some better source for this?

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

God I hope so. I thought we hated Threads here?

[-] SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Or they are just not getting new users because they keep mucking around and disabling features. We used to have twitter feeds embedded in our websites for years and this just quit working over the summer. Now we have facebook feeds embedded.

[-] Gnubeutel@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

Maybe if they pay extra to be featured at the top?

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