#muskrat fail

[lemongrablothbrok]

The irony of Twitter being blocked in Brazil when everything I've read about the Cybertruck makes it sound like something straight out of Brazil but I mean like the movie not the country.

[netscapenavigator-official]

Elon Musk fumbles the ball and gets X banned in Brazil.

BlueSky sees such a huge spike in user activity that they’ve been doing server maintenance for two days straight.

BlueSky sees a 500K+ new user spike in only two days.

My anecdotal experience is that the site seems way more lively and enjoyable than it used to.

In order to cope, Elon Musk posts an outdated meme photo with a Mematic watermark where he refers to “X” as Twitter, even though he threw a shitfit when everyone was refusing to call it by its rebrand.

What a week.

[existennialmemes]

I watched a sad billionaire drive his midlife crisis right through Twitter and all I got was a dozen new social media platforms and an, albeit empty sense of schadenfreude but it is still kinda funny.

[circusm0us3]

America literally makes me want to crash out I don't know how anyone else is not freaking out at the state of this country

We have astronauts "not stranded" in space because of a boeing issue.

Literally today they report another weird malfunction and they plan to basically send that pod back to earth on autopilot (probably because nobody trusts it at this point).

But the PLAN is to have the worst nepotism baby billionaire Elon's craft to get them and bring them back??

WHAT BIZARRE PARALLEL UNIVERSE ARE WE LIVING IN

[theabstruseone]

Okay...okay...so...sososo...you know how Twitter finally made good on revoking all the verified accounts from people who weren't paying the $8/mo asshole tax?

NO!

NO, THEY DIDN'T!

There's no way to automatically remove the verified flag on all the accounts, they would have to have gone account-by-account to remove them individually.

So instead...THEY JUST HID THE CHECKMARK ICON!!

You can still see if an account is legacy verified by putting in the search filter:

filter:verified from:@namehere

Anyone with a legitimate verified account you search for will show up. Anyone with a this-mfer-paid-for-Twitter account won't.

[khushiiiiii]

girl this is not a #twitterfail it's a #twitterondeathbed

[flipflopgamer01]

I would like to thank elon musk for making me discover X JAPAN

Great band i hope they never let musk have the trademark, and I would love Yoshiki so much if they trademarked a few other variations too lol

[cerati-oficial]

what Is going on at Elon's twitter

Look at this! Everytime they push a stupid change, a core feature breaks. In this example, community notes background somehow forgot that the app is in dark mode but the text didn't so you can only observe white text on white background, and a couple of blue logos

[cruentaquevivere]

SpaceX’s Starship exploded shortly after launching around 8:30am CDT on 4/20/2023.

SpaceX is allergic to the words “failure” and “explosion”

[nando161mando]

"Elon musk is shit ass terrible at everything except, somehow, convincing certain, often weirdly powerful people that he isn't shit ass terrible.

And they Want to be convinced because, deep down, they're worried they too might be shit ass terrible, and they need the reciprocal reassurance to keep going."

[chaberkowepole]

SO ELON MUSK SENT A ROCKET INTO SPACE, THE ROCKET EXPLODED AND THEY'RE CALLING THE EXPLOSION "RAPID UNSCHEDULED DISASSEMBLY" I CAN'T

[shinybea]

Why do I feel like Elon Musk is a complete idiot?

[my-evil-moisture-buddy]

Big congrats to Tesla for inventing Stainful Steel for their cybertrucks

[pastelvillaines11]

Whenever anyone asks me my plans for life or that day in general

[circusm0us3]

Twitter is having a normal one as usual 🙄

Source

[decadentunknowncycle]

If he really somehow manages to go through with the whole “X” thing I imagine the notification sound would go from a ‘tweet’ to having to hire one of those OF peeps to voice the new one ykyk

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

Edit to add further developments:

Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.

Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.

The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.

The act of sending a tweet is now known as "Xeet". They even added a guide for how to Xeet.

The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words "tweet" and "Twitter" are still all over the place on the site.

TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it's because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).

This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to "X-Paypal" and eventually just to "X".

This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to "pay online" (as in "I'll paypal you the money")

X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I'm not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he's hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn't be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.

Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.

The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.

One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won't be enough to pay the debt (since it's worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.

Sesame Street's official accounts mocked the rebranding.