The bird and the word "tweet" were synonymous with the form. It's like if he bought Kleenex and was like "we're going to change the name to X Wipes," dumbest possible branding self-own
He spent 41 million for x so he could use the platform to get into the whites house and look where he is in the white house!
So he bought America for 41 million!
The purchase of Twitter was never about normal stuff like a town square or making profits. It was/is about branding, control of mass messaging, and access to influence operations on large populations of persuadable people for psyops. Nothing else makes sense from a business perspective it's ruined.
If I remember correctly, he already owned the domain https://x.com, so he probably just wanted to do something with that domain. And I guess he wanted to send a clear signal that things were going to change. But as far I as see, they haven't.
But yeah, the bird was cool, and so was the verb 'to tweet'.
you would think there might be a clever or meaningful reason but my guess is its probably some weird reason no one ever even thought of or can make sense of
He wanted to destroy the platform that helped his daughter Vivian realize she was trans. He's estranged from a lot of his children. It was an apartheid-money-fueled cissy fit. Self-reflection and growth are more difficult than spending money and breaking things.
I think he had some weird obsession with the name/letter X since like 2 decades ago and had this vision of an "everything app" and he had to turn it into his own thing…
he really likes that algebra joke i think. "solve for X"
Space X because they do everything in space. he would have named it Car X or Electric X or something because they will make electric cars, trucks, robots, homes, etc.
if Muskrat had real business smarts he should have used "X" as the name of the company that owns Twitter, basically to compete with "Meta", that owns Facebook (Facebook remained the product, it didn't get rebraneded). That way he could expand X to include a whole suite of different products.
Yes, two decades ago, he was briefly CEO of PayPal. He tried to change the name to X and immediately had them start a complete rewrite of the platform that was a disaster and he got fired.
Look into his racist grandfather Joshua Haldeman’s involvement in the Technocracy movement in the 1930’s. The group gave each other alternative names using numbers and sometimes using X. So dumb. Pretty sure Elon is using his Trump ties to make America a Technocracy, which he will eventually run.
Considering the return on investment he got on turning twitter into a Trump-electing-and-ego-gratifying-machine, I’m sure he’d chalk it up as a win regardless.
He already owned the https://x.com domain, the only single letter .com TLD (if I remember right). I see it as a combination of of being terminally unique and overconfidence in his own ideas.
I listened to a live voice thingy on X where Elon was talking about refactoring everything, and an X engineer asked "which part?", and Elon was like "nah, nah, everything", "but why? what's wrong specifically?"
The whole thing sounded like he had no idea, maybe "X" is an ideal illustration of that.
I’m about 60% into reading “Character Limit” by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac. Excellent so far and gives you a diligently researched and well written account of how it unravels. Can’t recommend it enough.
The book also cemented my decision to delete my account after 13 years.
Everything app sounds cool and convenient until you realize your whole life belongs to the owner and it can get hacked and in unimaginable ways ruin you.
He’s feeding on the attention, negative or positive, does not matter. I’m still struggling to decide for myself, if he’s a narcissist or plain psychopath…
Can't have been intentional that a guy who grew to hate his abusive anti-apartheid father & originally came up with the idea of using something called X to "take over the world's financial system" & is now regularly platforming 4th Reich figures & denigrating minorities/immigrants is so big into X?
You're right that I don't even know if I want to say it's intentional, because I've seen no evidence that Elon is particularly crafty guy. But man, it rings a bell, doesn't it? History has ways of doing that, like in a Delphic Oracle sort of way
And one thing 4chan-types love doing is finding ways to signal to each other that they're fellow travelers in "ironic" ways that leave no particular accountability. If you're called on it what, I was joking, why are you getting upset. Why get upset about anything, lulz.
If there is one thing we can be sure, is that any action or decision taken/made by Elon Musk that increses revenue for his companies and/or bring about a good product (or better) is entirely coincidential.
He's been obsessed with X as a brand logo for decades now. To me, it feels like a fresh modernized, 4th edition update of another famous logotype: just knock off a couple of extra lines and only certain people know what you're wink winking at.
He never cared about Twitter as it was and even still is. He envisioned something different, and acquiring Twitter allowed him to not have to start from scratch with his idea.
A typical kind of Asperger's thing to obsess over something. He tried and failed to have Paypal called X.
That was one of the reasons they chucked him out, plus he almost sent the company broke under his weirdo management.
Obsession with calling a company X wasn't satisfied with name Space X.
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Band Aid – X Plaster
Scotch Tape – X Sticky
Tupperware – X Box
So he bought America for 41 million!
So he saw an opportunity to *force* it on people. So he did—in the process destroying billions in branding—like the creepy idiot he is.
But yeah, the bird was cool, and so was the verb 'to tweet'.
Final answer.
Space X because they do everything in space. he would have named it Car X or Electric X or something because they will make electric cars, trucks, robots, homes, etc.
Whatever it is, I can do better
Hey everybody look at me! 🙄 🤦🏻♂️
The whole thing sounded like he had no idea, maybe "X" is an ideal illustration of that.
I’m about 60% into reading “Character Limit” by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac. Excellent so far and gives you a diligently researched and well written account of how it unravels. Can’t recommend it enough.
The book also cemented my decision to delete my account after 13 years.
He pushed it at PayPal and was fired for being a colossal moron.
Like Spiderman but older....
Not sure where that comes from, seems childish of him
https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-elon-musks-x-the-everything-app/
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120586/
That was one of the reasons they chucked him out, plus he almost sent the company broke under his weirdo management.
Obsession with calling a company X wasn't satisfied with name Space X.