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New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 day ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Get your shortnames while the getting's good.

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[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

Twitter, formally X, formally Twitter

[–] AgentSeven@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't like Twitter enough to join it when it didn't cost $20.

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[–] WizardArtsPropaganda@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 hours ago

Still shit

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 36 points 1 day ago

Twitter 2

Ooh

Gemini fact checking

Awww

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

Is Trump-Hitler2028 still available? I will settle for hotBillionaireGulag.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I did always think it was stupid that he bought a site with pretty great branding (twitter/tweets/the bird graphics etc) and immediately got rid of most of that branding.

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[–] TootGuitar@sh.itjust.works 82 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It seems like maybe the commenters here thus far are missing the (obvious from the title) fact that this is not affiliated with Musk or “X” at all? I admire the aggressiveness of this move and I’ll be rooting for them.

[–] art@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Seems pretty obvious it's not related to Musk or X. However, it's just another proprietary social network. We are all familiar with the pattern now. Proprietary network and investors eventually means enshitification.

[–] iltg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 18 hours ago

i can't even resolve the app.twitter.now subdomain, off to a great start

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 day ago

For $20? No thanks.

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago

The real power move here would be to grab the domain name and run a free Mastodon instance off of it.

[–] TheChargedCreeper864@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

Should've been a Nitter instance

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 16 points 1 day ago

I'm already doing well here so i'll pass.

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn if it only fediverse user snagged the domain. It will be fun watching Elon seeth about it

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago

Doesn’t appear to be federated. No reason to leave Mastodon.

[–] juice702@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

New logo looks like shit compared to the old one

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[–] Phantom_Feline17@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago

Yeah i can see it getting a couple of thousand people on board then stagnating like bluesky

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