Elon Musk appearance at Valorant Champions tournament met with boos, crowd chanting 'Bring back Twitter'

same. i've been downvoting any posts about him because it's always some bullshit. it's never anything good.

Yeah him and that orange one. So so tired.

This addon helps a little bit but it's not perfect yet, it still shows some pictures https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/block-the-rich/

I can filter his name as a keyword on Sync for Lemmy.

Would be nice if there was a way to “spoiler tag” pictures for other reasons than nsfw

Hes a famous billionaire. Get used to it or media will shove it up yo ass.

If we can’t take his money, this is the next best thing

Bring back the classics. Not sure when/ why rotten tomatoes went out of style. Rotting onions could be a good remix/ update.

The new name alone isn't what made Twitter crap, but it is symbolic of the massive changes made to the site by the new management. I like to think of it this way: Twitter is dead. X is the reanimated corpse.

There's only so much you can say in a chant. Not a lot of room for nuance...

At this moment, I'm staying with my fediverse accounts.

I would say specifically because he loves his precious X so much, thinks it's such a great idea, that it's a good chant.

Twitter was shit before Musk bought it. It's just even worse now.

I think what we really want is to have it restored to pre-musk-ownership level of functionality. But that doesn't make for a nice four syllable group chant. Also I doubt the douche is capable of ever admitting how wrong he was.

Why they care about twitter

Maybe. But the fact is that it was used by people in uprisings. It is a powerful tool for the people. There is a reason why wealthy people from the middle east backed and funded musk taking it over. They wanted to take away a tool used by the people in revolution.

It probably contributed to a lot of stupidity and human suffering, but it also could have been used to great effect if us common folk could have learned to wield it appropriately. The rich and powerful were afraid of it, that alone should tell you that it's death is a bad thing.

Nothing > Twitter > X

Let's bring back Twitter then work on deleting Twitter.

It was awful. This is worse.

the world would be an infinitely better place if Twitter died

I think that Twitter is good for footage of emergency-type situations.

All sorts of people who don't know each other put images or video up, and the community is pretty good at associating it.

Imo the biggest problem is that it's way too easy to use. Something as simple as an 8th grade math question or hiding the tweet button in a menu would make it so much better

He definitely surrounds himself with yes-men, mf can't read a room.

heard somewhere that his son is a fan, so probably bc with him.

Like when he got booed at a Dave Chaplle show. The guy thinks he's loved and adored everywhere he goes because there's still a few pathetic worshipers on the internet.

Dude Elon never did anything. Only people he paid with emerald slave money did.

Ehz he didn't built an automotive platform. Other people did that, he bought it and green it mostly through controversy and by now it's quite clear that Tesla's are quite shit to own and drive.

Sued the owners to force them into calling Elon a founder.

Elon didn't even found the company. He just sick'd his lawyers on the founders and bought his way into the "founder" title.

Keep your friends close.

Keep your enemies closer. Where do you think GOP Republicans live? Texas. What vehicles do they drive? Gas/diesel.

Call him everything he is. But he is a fantastic businessman for going to the place of most resistance and turning his worst demographic to his biggest group of followers.

The truth hurts.

Isn't there a decent argument they've abandoned the trademark?

No way in hell. He thinks everyone is just jealous, not realizing that most of us don't want the problems that come with being ultra-rich, we just think he is a spoiled brat.

I think if it took him as long as it did to figure out people liked him, it's going to take at least that long for him to realize they don't.

Then again with the obvious ego boost of the first part of that, the question then becomes: even if and when he does realize it, will he care?

I look forward to the day his story is a cautionary tale.

I would think so. But at this point, he has made his choice. Don't think a baby face turn is in the cards. Might as well become Emperor Palpatine at this point.

Not if he's surrounded by yes men, which I'm sure he is.

Well now his ego is hurt and we get to see what else he ruins in a tantrum lol I wonder if he'll try to buy out the IP and call it EX or something equally dumb lol

You don't need drugs when you're stupid.

Well thank you for making me choke on my coffee. That seabirds comment really caught me off guard.

Drugs, a breakdown, midlife crisis, or just Elon showing us who Elon actually is. Find out on the next episode of downward spiral!

Are you suggesting that the front of Twitter is going to fall off?

Eh, he also ruins things based on reactions to things he sees on twitter too. And he's on it all the time. Elon Musk ruining things is basically automated now.

Well, he can't remove the blocking feature on Xitter anymore to make himself seem popular, he already did that.

Pretty sure that was his plan from the start.

The issue is, as others pointed out, that Twitter was extremely powerful for groups in oppressive countries to coordinate their activities. So much so, that some governments had resorted to switching off the internet for the whole country to combat social media; particularly Twitter.

It's entirely plausible that the supposed large sums of money that Elon received from Middle Eastern groups to help buy Twitter was for the expressed purpose to destabilize Twitter and destroy the brand. That way once Twitter is gone dissident groups can no longer organize and will be easy to oppress.

"Hop in the plane, Smithers."

"But sir-"

"I said hop in."

Howard Hughes suffered from really profound OCD and chronic pain in a time before effective medications for either of those. Arguably, effective treatments still don't exist. He became a recluse because he wasn't well enough to appear in public. I understand why the comparison might spring to mind, but I'm pretty sure Elon Musk is just an entitled asshole and not disabled.

Because Meta wasn't finished and wasn't expecting Twitter to shit itself so badly over a weekend. They were ready for the slow burn and Musk gunned it when he did his rate limit

Easy for most of us casual posters in the west to do. What sucks is that it was the platform for legit entities to transmit information from for years. Those accounts can't just up and leave a readily as us response accounts

I'd tell them to move to tumblr but, tumblr is going downhill too.

Looking forward to several rounds of the videos getting banned on Twitter and Elon claiming he isn't banning them the videos while also claiming the boo'ing was for something else

No, it's just a very poorly thought out rebrand. Articles keep saying "X, formerly Twitter" because without it, articles actually sound pretty bad and look silly. It's a bad name for an Internet service. It's generic. It doesn't do well in web searches. It doesn't sound good when talking out loud. It's all around a poor idea according to any marketing theory. People are used to saying tweets. It already essentially had total mind share. It was the standard for microblogging. It reached "Kleenex" or "band-aid" status in being the default reference for the concept.

And he just ditched it because he likes the letter X.

There isn't supposed to be, but with the number of engineers and devs he fired a long with his whimsical attitude towards changing things, well, things have broken.

Embeds seem to be hit or miss. The two factor auth API went down for awhile. I'm not a big Twitter person. I'm sure there's more to list.

Nope, the rebrand was just for Elon’s ego.

For a few days they required you to have an account to view tweets, but they changed back pretty quick.

I've also noticed that previews have stopped working when someone posts a Twitter link in Discord, but I don't know if that's intentional.

The tournament that shall not be named.

How else do you propose hurting him, and he deserves to be hurt, other than bruising his massive ego? He's never going to be anything but massively wealthy whether we like it or not.

At least he puts them to use. I bet he's sad all the time.

He sure hasn't been making money with Twitter, if that's what you're suggesting.

Y’know, I’ve never understood claiming “who cares” when someone must care enough to comment. When I truly don’t care about something, I just scroll past it and ignore it. If you’re truly “moving on,” why not just, well, move on?

Thank you for letting us all know how little you care.

Am I the only one who finds it in bad taste to use an "admin"-named account outside of their own instance?