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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

X-crements

Edit: X-cretions?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Pox = post + X.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Damn, nailed it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

He renamed the site Eggs, so call them eggs. I really don’t see how this is supposed to get rid of the bird theme though.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

X is what he first called PayPal, I wonder if this is just some sad fantasy for Musk.

[–] Zeppo 26 points 2 years ago

He had a company/brand called X which did the same thing as PayPal and merged with Confinity, who made PayPal. He wanted to use the X name for PayPal, but everyone else at the company nixed it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Dude's a cringey edgelord I'm surprised all of his don't have an x in their names

[–] Nythos 5 points 2 years ago

XxDarkSoulElonxX

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

SpaceX, Model X, X.com (pre PayPal), and even named his son X. Dude's got a weird obsession with making X work.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Promotes the name change by linking to something that calls it Twitter. Big brain time from Musk yet again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I thought it was a logo change not name change.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t you want to forward Twitter.com to X.com and not the other way around?? It’s not possible someone with this much wealth is this dumb.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well clearly you're wrong about that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sounds like a porn site not gonna lie

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Another social media platform dominated by furry pron.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

All that it's good for.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

X.co.....m sounds like an xxx site !

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

xvideos.com is twitter’s new video hosting site

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Where no one lands their shots even with 90% odds, huh?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I thought Elon stepped down from Twitter and hired a new CEO? What's he still doing there?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

He stepped down as CEO but is still president, CTO and anything else he feels like being while he can scapegoat his female CEO for anything he wants.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

So, yes official. Don't message your X

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

early user testing of the new service reports are that the iconic tweet sound will be replaced by an ai-generated voice recording of deceased rapper DMX’s iconic canine-esque barking even though DMX’s estate has not given permission nor will they receive any compensation.

when sending messages, it will make a sound of “x gonna give it to ya”. again, no compensation to be had to the DMX estate, nor the ruff ryders.

more news at 11

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

XxXTwitter360NoScopeXxX

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It’s a symbol to his fan base. Which is wild that that’s the head space he’s in. Still trying to be that cool kid amongst his rabble of friends.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It’s not even “new” he was trying to get PayPal called X and everyone squashed it (thankfully), so even there, he’s been waiting like 25y to get X on something lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It’s still not dead?! Let’s try something else!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Twats, we should call him, after the owner

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Im fucking sure Elon pretty much drew the logo himself and gets a wild boner when he thinks how fucking smart he is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Lol .. what an idiot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Probably something that makes it even harder and more confusing to understand in context, so I'm gonna say he calls them "texts"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

He was a big DMX fan

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I can't imagine how much the x.com domain costed him. Like I know most three or four letter domains trade hands for six figures sometimes since there's so few

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_domain

Like apparently single letter domains are reserved so idk how he got one

Edit: found out. He bought it from PayPal after they stopped using it for their brand years ago. $6.8 million dollars for a domain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He wanted PayPal to be called X so I’m wondering if he didn’t have this domain the whole time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The wiki article says as much

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Money. If something is “reserved” or even “illegal” you just need to pay more

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Gonna give it to you's?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Paid for by the Ad Concil for Rex's

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