WTF is he thinking?

[Gary Blanchard]

I was just reading that Elon Musk is rebranding Twitter as X. He seems to be doing all he can to kill the site.

I never got into Twitter, and now I'm glad that I didn't.

 

[smurfco]

I bet he is thinking “this will really confuse Gary Blanchard”

 

[jp_nyc]

I’m surprised that he didn’t call it Alpha. But I’m sure the whole thing is going to be stupid.

 

[Gary Blanchard]

I bet he is thinking “this will really confuse Gary Blanchard”

And he is right. He seems to be doing everything possible to destroy his investment. Shows that money and common sense do not necessarily go together.

 

[smurfco]

Elon Musk is not a smart man, and the more publicity he receives, the less intelligent he appears. Impressive for somebody who was widely regarded as a genius just a few years ago.

 

[Bones McHorror]

He wants a monopoly corporation like Amazon or Google.

And for twitter to simply be part of that. He has said before that 'X is the app that does everything'.

He said recently too that he wants X to control the world's financial system.

In that context, it makes sense for him. Even if it is likely illegal and twitter itself will probably go bankrupt in a few years.

 

[Chad]

I hope he destroys Twitter. If only he could buy Facebook too, the world would be a better place.

 

[Honkridge]

I want him to live in a yellow submarine

 

[Bones McHorror]

Doesn't this get you friggin' pumped for the future?!?

 

[smurfco]

I don't want to live on this planet anymore

 

[jp_nyc]

I get the impression that there is no real strategy for the future of X. It doesn’t matter if the company fails because Musk has already got over losing the $44 billion. Now the company is just a toy.

 

[Chicken Man]

Elon Musk is not a smart man, and the more publicity he receives, the less intelligent he appears. Impressive for somebody who was widely regarded as a genius just a few years ago.

The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his ass, as the saying goes. Money looks like brains for a while, for a lot of onlookers, but even that is looking as thin as his hair (before he got the hair plugs).

 

[Chicken Man]

I get the impression that there is no real strategy for the future of X. It doesn’t matter if the company fails because Musk has already got over losing the $44 billion. Now the company is just a toy.

Except a lot of the cash he used to buy Twitter was borrowed from knee-breaking foreign investor types.

 

[Andrew Sak]

Here's the short story. We saw these lights near the Colorado River last week. We thought it was an alien invasion. It turns out it was Elon Musk's Starlink satellites.

People also saw this. It was me water-skiing after a 20 year hiatus.

 

[2manband]

I’m sure people will be clamoring to let Twitter AI handle their banking.

 

[Lerxst]

He's been obsessed with X since the beginning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com

 

[jp_nyc]

Domain registrars are making a fortune this week from people registering porn and parody domains that end in x.

 

[DdBob]

I hope he destroys Twitter. If only he could buy Facebook too, the world would be a better place.

oddly ewnough facebro (meta) launched a rival for twitter called 'threads" and they had record numbers joining it so I've heard so hopefully X is the nail in the coffinn for twatter


btw Threads was also the name of a very good and very disturbing 1980's movie about Nuclear war

 

[Tig]

He named a son, "X Æ A-12" and a daughter, "Exa Dark Sideræl".

 

[Bones McHorror]