X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts

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X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts::X is rolling out a new terms of service on September 29th, and one adjustment is a single instance of “retweet” to “repost.” There are other changes regarding data scraping and class action lawsuits.

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This guy throws away one of the most famous brands in the entire world and then says "uh, it's the Jews!". Out of all the incredibly stupid things he has said, I still find "And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds." especially irritating.

Makes you wonder why he bought it in the first place. He's thrown everything away: the employees, the offices, the code, and now the brand.

Isn't because the courts made him do it after he definitely very seriously said he would buy it? Honestly I've kinda lost track of the details at this point and am just enjoying watching the worlds slowest train smash from afar

Yeah, from what I understand, he said he was going to buy it, then changed his mind, then the shareholders sued him because I guess there was a tentative deal.

Just shows me that Elon doesn't know what the hell he's doing, so spez looks up to him now? Yeah, I'm lost too.

He didn't just say he was going to buy it, he signed a legally binding contract and waived his right to back out of the deal, and then tried to anyway lmao, what a fucking dumbass child man

"Lol it's just paper bro."

Snatches and eats contract

The board sued because the insane price he proposed was a much better monetary outcome for shareholders than waiting for Twitter itself to become profitable. But was a much worse outcome for its employees, users, and the rest of us....

Gonna go ahead and say that this is the BEST outcome for the rest of us. Employees and vendors for Twitter got the short end of the straw, but society as a whole would be blessed if Twitter went the way of the Dodo bird.

Oh those poor poor "users". Remember kids, if you're not paying for the service, you're not the user, you're the product.

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Nah. I'm just gonna keep deadnaming Twitter for as long as Musk keeps deadnaming his child.

Deadnaming Twitter is the only deadnaming I support

I compromise and call it Xitter. (The X is pronounced with a "sh" sound.) I think it fits.

I'm surprised this doesn't catch on more, it's absolute perfection.

Nothing says marketing genius like throwing away one of the most recognisable brands in the industry and replacing it with "X"

When your brand gets to the point where it turns into a verb why on earth would you ever torpedo that?

It’s like if Google changed their name to “search” and prodded people to say “just search it” instead of “just google it”.

It's even worse. It would be like Google changing their name to Y and telling people to "just search it".

Wow, that's... exceedingly boring.

Imagine buying some of the most recognized branding in the world and tossing it all away. Couldn't be me.

I keep wondering what was the asset that Elon bought that was worth $44B? The brand? No, he flushed that down the toilet. The technology? No, he was crapping all over that from day one. The staff? No, he fired most of them. Twitter had no real estate. What was THE THING he paid $44B for?

What was THE THING he paid $44B for?

The only guess I can make is the private jet tracker, which he Streisanded into a subreddit where it will live forever. Lmao.

LOL i follow that guy on Threads now. So poor use of $44B!

The user base so he can do his fantasy payment system.

I guess the user base. But he was also shitting all over that saying it was mostly bots. You could say it was a strategy to bring the price down, but he still paid $44B so that didn't work.

This is probably too conspiracy theory-ish, but I feel like he made some shady side deal or bet that he could destroy the company in record time. You know, bored rich people stuff. I personally can't fathom how someone can be THAT incompetent and still run so many successful companies. He televises himself as a fool in the public scene, but we don't know him personally, so we really can't know. Maybe it's all for show to highly underestimate him so he can swoop in at pivotal moments... Or he is genuinely a loser rich kid. Haha

Here’s a low stakes conspiracy. Musk went all in on the “Birds aren’t real” thing, and is now trying to erase birds from the internet.

Enjoy the show, this pyre is fucking massive. Literally turned a brand that became engrained into culture and destroyed it in record time.

I'm still convinced, this all came out because he was butt-hurt about plane tracking and other things, also a convenient dump for Tesla stocks people keep thinking he cares about twitter like the users do, for him, it's prob just Tuesday

Also a lot of left-leaning discourse happened there, from American liberals to actual-left communists. The Arab Spring had a lot of coordination happen there (hence the Saudi’s involvement) and the power-hungry capital owners of the world were probably getting tired of being called out. So Elon took one for the team, probably thinking best case he could get bailed out, worst case he could destroy the “public square” that hated on him so much.

Now the site is just garbage on top of garbage and everyone is looking elsewhere. If he was gonna be forced to buy it, he sure wasn’t just gonna let the above slide…

I've been thinking this as well. I mean, at this point I don't see any reason why else he could've reasonably done this. Either he's making no sense, or it's something like this. Twitter stood for many things he's against, and he has just completely ruined it

"Hated on him"?

There was definitely a contingent that did that, but for the most part, Musk had been pretty much invulnerable to criticism, with thousands of fanbois ready to jump to his defence. He's brought pretty much all of this on himself since he took it over, he's hurt his own brand way more than Xitter's.

Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.

Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

I don't care, I just like to watch the fire. If watching the fire makes it burn harder, wouldn't that be fun?

People like to act all holier than thou with this kinda stuff. Whether or not we read and upvote articles about this evil clown isn't going to change whatever the outcome is. I'd like to see Musk in prison as much as the next guy, but watching him burn twitter down is entertaining as well

X has now become just like any other social media platform. Posts are just called "posts" just like anywhere else.

Looks like Elon Musk has become the Elongated Muskrat once again.

So if they have publicly abandoned the Twitter brand identity, can someone else use it?

Because a lot of people are ready for a retro clone.

Would be pretty hilarious for something to take the name. But it’s doubtful that they release the name. Twitter.com still directs to x.com

Start calling everything posted online a tweet and eventually it’ll become a generic trademark.

Hehe twitter stocks go brrrrr

Maybe I missed the joke, but Twitter no longer has stocks since Elon took it private.

Hehe, twitter evaluation goes brrrrr

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Users are starting to see pop-ups about new terms that go into effect on September 29th, and one adjustment is two instances of “retweet” (the only use of “tweet” in the current terms) to “repost,” essentially putting the final stamp in the death of the word tweet.

There are a bunch of other branding changes in the new terms, including a nearly wholesale removal of the word “Twitter” in favor of X. I say nearly wholesale because, hilariously, many of the URLs included in the terms still seemingly have to include the word “twitter,” like in this link to a developer-focused website: https://developer.x.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites.

There have been some hints that X wants to fully switch over to URLs starring X, but it seems Twitter will hang around in some capacity.

References to Periscope, Twitter’s live streaming app it shut down in 2021, have been removed as well.

Another change moves language about misusing Twitter’s services to a new section, and updates it in a pointed ban against scraping, something that X owner Elon Musk really doesn’t like.

X is also planning to put a new privacy policy into place on September 29th.

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