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[–] jerome@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reporting on some asshole's sandbox doesn't feel like news.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i could see this in mildlyinteresting or maybe funny, but definitely not technology

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Elon musk does technology stuff, so it should go in /r/technology."

Sorry for haunting you with Redditisms.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 47 points 1 year ago

NYT should simply walk away from Xwitter. NPR did so with no apparent loss of viewership.

[–] athos77@kbin.social 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NPR says they didn't lose any traffic when they left Twitter, the Times should leave too.

[–] paintbucketholder@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At this point, one of the things keeping Twitter alive is that 99 percent of journalists and media outlets have refused to leave, despite all the evidence that there's nothing to be gained for them on that platform.

It's just their own FOMO that keeps them there.

I'd wish they'd follow the lead of those organizations who simply left, or, better yet, started up their own Mastodon instances.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm sure their social media managers are acting more on fear of losing employees than fear of missing out.

It's hard to argue that switching to some platform they're not familiar with and will likely have even less of an impact still continue to justify their employment.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No one owns "X", that's a letter. Call it Twitter.

[–] HollandJim@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

A little while back, someone here called it “Xitter”. I’d say that fits nicely.

[–] KingOfSleep@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago

I'm going to deadname Twitter, as long as musk deadnames his daughter

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Stop playing with the fascist, folks. The fascist is not playing. They never are.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

My Tesla lease can't end soon enough. I'm so fucking sick of Elon. I momentarily hoped the board would remove him...but, nope. Get fucked Elon.

[–] threegnomes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago
[–] Dieterlan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did they change their profile picture? That was the cause the last time I saw an article like this

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, did anyone forget that Elon Musk owns X? Is it really necessary to throw "Elon Musk's" into every headline? I somehow doubt he's sitting at some kind of master control console laughing maniacally and pulling a lever to make the verification badge go away every time the Times changes their profile picture.

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It's a shitty SEO tactic mixed with the Pavlovian response to the man's name.