Elon Musk appearance at Valorant Champions tournament met with boos, crowd chanting 'Bring back Twitter'
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to 
pcgamer.com
Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.
You are viewing a single comment
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to
I've never had an account on the service before or after the rebrand, and for the three or so people who I occasionally glance at the accounts of, I normally use nitter.net.
However...was there actually any significant functional difference associated with "X" rebrand?
The most-significant technical shift that I was aware of was many years back, when they increased the tweet character limit.
No, it's just a very poorly thought out rebrand. Articles keep saying "X, formerly Twitter" because without it, articles actually sound pretty bad and look silly. It's a bad name for an Internet service. It's generic. It doesn't do well in web searches. It doesn't sound good when talking out loud. It's all around a poor idea according to any marketing theory. People are used to saying tweets. It already essentially had total mind share. It was the standard for microblogging. It reached "Kleenex" or "band-aid" status in being the default reference for the concept.
And he just ditched it because he likes the letter X.
And what URL do we use to view X? Oh, is it still twitter.com? Musk is a fucking clown.
Well, it's x.com...? But yes he's a clown.
For me, just redirects to Twitter.com
Oh, I guess it does, I swear it was working as just x.com for a while, I guess I was mistaken.
There isn't supposed to be, but with the number of engineers and devs he fired a long with his whimsical attitude towards changing things, well, things have broken.
Embeds seem to be hit or miss. The two factor auth API went down for awhile. I'm not a big Twitter person. I'm sure there's more to list.
Nope, the rebrand was just for Elon’s ego.
For a few days they required you to have an account to view tweets, but they changed back pretty quick.
I've also noticed that previews have stopped working when someone posts a Twitter link in Discord, but I don't know if that's intentional.