Facebook and Twitter are not people, they're a public (dis)service. I would argue that the "owners" don't even have a right to name them at all, because it's hardly "their" thing. Twitter with no content would be useless.
#deadnametwitter
Facebook and Twitter are not people, they’re a public (dis)service.
In burgerland's twisted laws, corporations are legally people.
They're people that can't be arrested and can't be executed. They have more rights than other people and more privileges.
Even when business news talks about ABC stocks, they call it Google lol
I actually find it funny they want to be "Meta" still when I consider just how hard the Metaverse flopped
My favorite part about VR shit and Meta specifically failing is that Apple is trying now, years after all the failures, to join the VR race. They're gonna lose billions of dollars, it's hilarious, and reddit is still coping that it will be great and revolutionize VR (surely this time it won't suck ass and make people feel motion sickness!). Oh also the headset is way way way overpriced. The economy's ass is falling out and they're trying to sell a shit motion sickness headset for $1000. Good luck, Tim Apple.
Apple VR gonna require a second mortgage and credit rating over 800 to purchase
When the headset fails in 3 months, it'll cost 15k to repair
why hasn't apple rebranded?
It'd be funny to see the gang do it in sync. Maybe they can call themselves cantaloupe or something
how hard the Metaverse flopped
The Metaverse is merely experiencing temporary setbacks due to the integration of new technology into existing systems.
That was my attempt at corporate speak parody.
I was curious how bad things are in the 'verse right now so I googled. I don't know how they can spin that it's "fucking awful" but they're tech bros - they'll find a way
Metaverse: What happened to Mark Zuckerberg's next big thing? - BBC News
How unprofitable? Well, the most recent figures from Meta are eye-watering.
Reality Labs - which as the name suggests is Meta's virtual and augmented reality branch - has lost a staggering $21 billion since last year.
Metaverse is still vaguely alive.
Thing is that metaverse isn't marketed as just a game, it is a tool for business as well.
Businesses still want it and are trying to make cases that it is just going through growing pains and some hurdles (citing crypto crash, elephant in the room that is GenAI, and regulatory problems) but man in the public eye people see it as the obvious scam that it is with only 300k active users, and a much lower CCU count.
Unfortunately businesses make the decisions in our culture so we just have to eat the shit they shovel and they own the kitchen until a time we decide to raid the fridge.
Thing is that metaverse isn't marketed as just a game, it is a tool for business as well.
A tool for tools.
I think changing to Meta makes some sense though, since now they own so many platforms and not just FB.
X is fucking stupid as fuck though because X is still only Twitter and I doubt that is changing. Edit: ok i guess Twitter does own other shit but it's all stuff nobody knows about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Twitter
It's funny how often I've seen it referred to as X (Twitter). If you need the parentheses then the rebrand isn't really working.
personally though I support calling it X because it sounds stupid as hell and devalues the brand. if Musk wants to destroy all positive associations people had with his awful company then we should let him
Putting a big X on the left of every embedded xeet to trick you into trying to close it but you just end up on x
Got to unless they get sued probably
I’m really enjoying “X, the platform formerly known as Twitter,” like it’s prince or sth
There's no legal grounds to sue for misnaming a company (or person for that matter). They probably just do it because Zuck and Musk are right wingers, the news is right wing and approves of both of them suppressing anything remotely left wing and promoting Nazi shit, so, there you have it. The owners tell the (also right wing) reporters and commentators to use the new names.
I don't personally give much of a fuck about Meta since it's more akin to Google -> Alphabet change. Google is still Google, just under Alphabet. Facebook is still Facebook. Like they didn't change the branding. The "X" thing is stupid as fuck though. Had he created X and said Twitter the overarching company is now X but Twitter is Twitter, ok, still childish because he's got an odd obsession with the letter, but whatever. But no he basically deleted Twitter's branding (which sold for $44B...the site itself could be replicated and essentially has been. The value is in the naming rights) and replaced it with a four-year-old's vision of "cool" with the X shit.
They could just say twitter.com since its still the url.
Spineless media
Billionaire vampires stop trying to rebrand things challenge. Difficulty level: Blackwater/Xe/Academi
It's funny that Elon spent 44 billion to make "X" a cooler letter and all he did was cheapen it.
When Prince wanted to change his name, it was a little silly, but I get the whole "formerly known as Prince" thing. Don't want to piss of a big artist who commands respect, your television network wants to come off as respecting individual's choices (although, really, nobody who wasn't already a famous icon would be given that same treatment).
Seeing that same wording for fucking re-branding is just emphasizes how hollow it really is/was. Why are you doing that? Nobody is going to get mad at your newspaper or whatever if you just say Twitter.
Prince didn't wantto change his name. The name his mother named him was Prince, but his label trademarked the musical act "Prince" and forbid him from performing or recording under that name. When he changed labels in 2000, he was able to use his name again.
i shouldn't have tried to comment on something I only know by oblique jokes after the fact
I get it. When he did it, it seemed to me like some kind of egotistical, avant garde stunt. Later I learned that it was a protest against capital explotation, and I changed my view.
Capitalists can't just deadname each other's companies, that would be rude!
They could probably be sued for damaging the company's brand or some BS if they continue to use the former name. No actual person cares but companies are gonna go after money whenever possible.
Ugg, you're right.
URL is still twitter.com though, just refer to it as www.twitter.com in every sentence
God how I wish people had this type of thinking when trump said the media was the enemy of the people
