Monday, July 31, 2023

X Marks the Spot

 Well, that was a nice run for Twitter. 

As the saying goes, "All good things..." etc etc etc.

So the social media platform is still around.

But Twitter owner Elon Musk decided to rebrand the cite as "X".




Gone is the little blue bird of happiness, now replaced by a stylized "X".   

Despite this rebranding, Twitter is still called Twitter because someone didn't check to see if the copyright on calling something simply "X" was available. 

It was not but Elon Musk still changed the logo on the app to "X" and then he put up a giant metal "X" on top of Twitter HQ in San Francisco.  

Without clearing it with the city first. 

Seems cities frown on things being built on top of tall buildings without making sure the streets and sidewalks below are safe from falling debris. 

Elon Musk did not do that.  


Elon's fuckery does not end there.

The giant metal "X" lights up.



And it blinks! 

The apartment building across the street has a giant blinking X shining into people's homes. 

Elon Musk is a straight up a super villain.  

And an exceedingly dumb one.


"X" marks the spot where Twitter goes into bankruptcy and descends into irrelevance.  

UPDATED   7/31 11:00 PM 

It seems that earlier today the giant "X" on the top of Twitter HQ was dismantled. 

The Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit organization, accused Twitter of not removing Tweets that are “racist, homophobic, neo-Nazi, antisemitic or conspiracy content" since Elon Musk too over.  

The legal threat from Twitter accused the CCDH of publishing “inflammatory, outrageous, and false or misleading assertions”. Or to put it another way, "We are rubber, you are glue."

For more of this latest bullshit that Elon Musk is doing with Twitter, click this article.  

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