X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts
X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts
X really wants you to forget about Twitter.
They had such a huge amount of brand recognition and vocabulary associated with their site and Elon just decided to kill that
No one will convince me he isn't doing this on purpose to tank the brand.
He and his buddies were mad that they couldn't compete. So he made the offer in a manic moment, and then was forced to go through with it. Now that he's got it, he's going to destroy it, and use the loss to reduce his taxes from all his government contracts.
And he simultaneously gets to platform fascists and silence people calling out the powerful. Wins all around.
For a normal person, this looks like failing. I totally get that. But rich people can derive massive benefits from stuff that would ruin us, and every single thing Musk is doing benefits him in some way.
Since Elmo isn't playing with his own money, the investors and banks who gave him that money are going to be mad if all he did is run the company into the ground.
He got like 13 billion from banks.
Only a small part came from his own Tesla stocks.
It’s like Kleenex rebranding to V and then telling everyone to refer to them as tissues.
It’s absolutely batshit. Way to destroy a strong brand, and any brand recognition.
I wonder if there's some new business mumbo jumbo going around, because the company I work for now is exploring our terminology to make it more generic. Last few years it was all Crossing the Chasm and Empowering Citizen Developers. This year it seems clarity of communication is the hot fire.
he’s not even able really kill it either. everyone i know still calls them tweets. even in the articles i read, the authors all say twitter or “X, formerly known as twitter”. it’s such a stupid branding decision that no one is buying into it
I thought they were called xcretes
“The internet personality Xcreted daily, his xcretes had been re excreted over 20 000 times”
*rexcreted
And that’s an x post facto
Neato!
The Twitter brand is so totally not the problem here.
Ok, as a compromise between a generic word and a specific name, I vote we call them Xcrement. (Verb: Xcrete) (Would nicely describe the average quality too)
Aye. I second.
A "post" on x will always be known as an Xcrete (verb, I Xcrete on X), and past tense will be an Xcrement. (Noun, I read an Xcrement on X)
why would a noun have a past tense
Tweets are stupid as f. I can’t say it is wrong to kill the word tweet (barf) BUT the whole world knows wtf a tweet is.
Elon is going full on gen-x, this is generational battle royale to the max.
like, totally
Gretchen, stop trying to make X happen. It's never going to happen.
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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Great job, Elon. He took one of the most distinctive things about Twitter, the fact that it had a unique verb for its posting type, and killed it. Way to destroy a brand.
Sounds better than Xeets
But we all know they’re Xcretions
....and Xvideos that cause so many disappointments on the internet
Do we call them peets now?
It's Twitter. Stop calling it x, it will never be x. Why do people bootlick so hard for daddy musk? As soon as he tells you what to do, you just say thank you, and do what your told by daddy? It's fucking Twitter. They're tweets
I like seeing "The website formerly known as Twitter“ and almost no mention of the new name you see on articles sometimes.
I prefer to call it TwiX ;) But ma dood, in a year no one will be left calling it Twitter, just the way things go.
I prefer raider.
It isn't Twitter anymore, but he can't force us to call it X.
So I agreed to call it Xitter instead. (pronounced as shitter)
I mean, losing the Twitter brand recognition is such a bad fucking move that I bet a lot of people are more than happy to indulge him in the name change. He paid billions in for the brand and basically just decided to make a generic website out of it.
There are a few other updates to the terms, too. One says that by using X, “to the extent permitted by law, you also waive the right to participate as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class action, collective action or representative action proceeding.”
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X is also planning to put a new privacy policy into place on September 29th. That new policy says X will expand the volume of data it collects on users, including biometric data and employment history.
Good thing I'm not there, don't care, am not affected. Lonnie is the best business man evar.
Wondering what will Elmo choose to do: redirect all requests from twitter.com to x.com, or push a 404 on the twitter.com domain just to force all the websites that still embed tweets, er, posts to acknowledge the new URL.
You done fucked up now