I do like how they can't trademark the logo because they just used a generic Unicode X though. Also that they're probably infringing on someone else's trademark anyway.
Do the silver specks they added to the logo make it legally more distinctive? The other trademarks to the letter itself, including by Meta in the social media context, seem more a concern.
I noticed that since the non-member lockout, you don't even get anything even trying to entice you to join if you naively type "twitter.com" into your browser - just a white sign-in square with "sign up" at the bottom.
I liked this NYT piece about how long ago it was when X had some cultural cachet (X-Games, XBox), and how it was pretty lame at its peak too.
To paraphrase myself, other men in midlife crises try to recreate their 20-ish youth, but Elon is apparently trying to recreate the feeling of being a 15-year-old in 2003, when he was actually 32.
Anyone have a blue sky invite? There is apparently hack tgg heat allowed you to export twitter accounts you follow. I'd like to use it before the platform dies.
Interesting story here about how this is more or less the same move that got him ousted from PayPal:
https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius/110775069963968471
I think the X trademark for communications-type industries rightfully belongs to ZZ Top.
5: I have one. What's the best way to get it to you?
Will X Trapnel have to get a new pseud?
He's now X123456789987654321 trapnel.
The Verge had a good article last fall that attempted to take the twitter with payments idea seriously, with background on Musk's previous payment experience.
I continue to boggle. What is there even to say?
It sounds like we should just give him all of our banking information. He seems sincere and capable.
8: pseudonymous e-mail at the link. Thanks much.
We had a dog that was so stupid he ate June bugs until he threw up and then started eating June bugs again.
we should just give him all of our banking information
Just read a tweet that "this web site is certainly on track to replace Banks, as it now struggles to maintain the functionality of a 30 year old geocities guestbook".
If they bring back the "under construction" badge, the one where the shovel moved, that would be great.
Does anyone have a blue sky invite I could have? I promise that while my skeets will be terrible there won't be many of them.
19: yes, where can i get it to you?
that's not a functioning email! heebie has the one that works.
I have another invite too. I guess they liked my last invitee.
23: Next, the international banking system.
Also they let some of the most notorious CSAM up for a week and Elon personally reinstated the account that posted it
yes, a strong motivation to delete the app!
29 two group chats I'm in on Twitter just migrated to Signal
30 I never would https://twitter.com/dril/status/1684272209379090432?s=46&t=nbIfRG4OrIZbaPkDOwkgxQ
If dril were to turn out to be anyone here my money's on urple.
34: There's only one way you could know that.
Did Blue Sky eventually ban using ethic slurs in usernames?
9/10: aww! I actually never used this as a twitter handle, only my real name for some reason.
Eh, same problems as always. Trying to finally finish this one last, 2-years-overdue, paper to finish the B.Ed. part of the teaching degree before August, when we join Iberian Fury's family at the beach. Didn't get any good teaching position offers (e.g. teaching my actual subjects -- geography/economics, history/civics, or informatics -- at a school with an English-as-working-language track) for the fall, but I have a verbal offer to teach English half-time at a one-year school for 14-y.o. kids who are intending to go right into the labor market (ideally, apprenticeships) afterwards. That will probably be good experience for me, especially on the classroom- and time-management side of things.
25: I guess it's true what they say about silence being golden.
Teaching sounds good. Best of luck.
Someone else I've discovered on bluesky who is definitely not dril, nor an imitator, but let's say scratches similar humor centers, is @ohkafuimykafui.bsky.social.
47: She dominates my bluesky TL. And I didn't even know she existed until I got on bluesky 2-3 days ago.
Its amazing how my gut reaction to seeing that X has been to close the twitter window as soon as it opens and go do something else. I don't need another reminder that its Elon's playground now.
50: Right? We can't be the only ones for whom "X" is negative, aversive branding.
51 Guy is in love with the letter X. I'd blame Sesame Street, but I'm not sure he had it growing up.
https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius/110775069963968471
Oops, sorry, that's the same link as 6.
Its amazing how my gut reaction to seeing that X has been to close the twitter window as soon as it opens and go do something else.
This is exactly my experience too.
Is the "You've read too many tweets, subscribe to read more" based on something they are actually tracking or just as my daughter insists a BS error message they put up when something is going around? I got it early in the day after they first announced it and seemed to be locked out the rest of the day (but was travelling and not really paying attention), Since then I have gotten a few times but it seems to be fleeting and has seemingly only affected my ability to read tweets on Tweetdeck but not my phone.
I suspect something sort of in-between. Half-asse tracking that is not really working.
55: Were you not there on the big rate-limiting day? Presumably if it's back their servers are having problems again.
Are the still called tweets? They should probably be rebranded as X-cretes.
Its amazing how my gut reaction to seeing that X has been to close the twitter window as soon as it opens and go do something else.
https://hackers.town/@rgegriff/110793304166927028
A very serious, thoughtful rebranding that has never been made in such detail or with such care.
56: Yes, I think that was the day I mentioned when i first got it, but was travelling so not really paying attention. Was it really figured out that it was just a reaction to the servers were crapping out?
I think on that day it was a combination of a bad executive decision with neglected infrastructure. But rate limiting was always a behind the scenes thing Twitter could do, just usually not something affecting the experience, there I think for more technical reasons - there was something about it being one of the most locked-down functions. So if you're seeing it now, it's probably a pure glitch.