Changing Its Name Tanked X’s Downloads in App Store and Play Store (daringfireball.net)
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 21 Aug 2023 08:00
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Changing Its Name Tanked X’s Downloads in App Store and Play Store::Link to: www.threads.net/@eric_seufert/post/CwAiop2OM8U/

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fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works on 21 Aug 2023 08:12 next collapse

Cat pics are much higher on my list of priorities than “blazing” my “glory”. What even is that? Is it a sex thing? It’s a sex thing, isn’t it? Brb, gonna go blaze myself in the glory.

EricKendrick@feddit.uk on 21 Aug 2023 11:14 collapse

I’m sure the full phrase it references is “going down in a blaze of glory”, and is just Elon’s edgy nod that he is catastrophically destroying the platform, but just enough deniability In case it all works out and is a success.

eestileib@sh.itjust.works on 21 Aug 2023 17:20 next collapse

Ooooh.

I thought it was about hotboxing a glory hole booth.

Aceticon@lemmy.world on 22 Aug 2023 10:16 collapse

Doesn’t that expression have connotation with “fighting to the bitter end”?

Twitter’s situation with Musk is less one of fighting to the last breath but going down none the less (taking as many of the other side as you can), and more one of suicide by incompetence.

[deleted] on 21 Aug 2023 08:20 next collapse

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M0oP0o@mander.xyz on 21 Aug 2023 08:51 collapse

fair enough, I can only think of this whenever the new name for twitter comes up (well that and how X could not pay alimony). But I get that you all must like the new name.

elbarto777@lemmy.world on 21 Aug 2023 09:38 collapse

We don’t like the new name.

Cabrio@lemmy.world on 21 Aug 2023 08:54 next collapse

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[deleted] on 21 Aug 2023 09:17 next collapse

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foggy@lemmy.world on 21 Aug 2023 09:18 collapse

wooooosh

heartlessevil@lemmy.one on 23 Aug 2023 09:27 collapse

No.

DragonAce@lemmy.world on 21 Aug 2023 09:24 next collapse

I know this is all just Elon’s ineptitude on full display, but there is still part of me that thinks he was paid by certain governments to tank the platform.

Cabrio@lemmy.world on 21 Aug 2023 09:48 next collapse

If you want to understand his action look at those who paid for him to act.

washingtonpost.com/…/elon-musk-twitter-funders/

[deleted] on 21 Aug 2023 11:37 collapse

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WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world on 21 Aug 2023 11:49 next collapse

Be the change you want to see in the world

[deleted] on 21 Aug 2023 12:11 collapse

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bronzle@lemm.ee on 22 Aug 2023 08:16 collapse
[deleted] on 21 Aug 2023 11:36 next collapse

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NotSoCoolWhip@lemmy.world on 21 Aug 2023 12:19 next collapse

Zero Roe, but that was more to do with the supreme Court lol

JaymesRS@midwest.social on 21 Aug 2023 13:47 collapse

My guess is RoE is supposed to be Return on Investment (RoI)

scytale@lemm.ee on 21 Aug 2023 13:46 collapse

I mean, it’s possible they want to do that on a global scale, which isn’t something they can easily do by themselves, unlike banning it just in their own country.

Jamie@jamie.moe on 21 Aug 2023 17:08 collapse

If I understand the news on the matter clearly, he still has one last appeal to overturn his purchase. I think he’s hoping to reverse Twitter back to the old owners in a demolished state as a middle finger.

raunz@mander.xyz on 21 Aug 2023 11:38 next collapse

Come on Elon change the domain. Just do it, it’ll be fine! SEO will be fantastic!

ultratiem@lemmy.ca on 21 Aug 2023 14:17 collapse

Kind of a pointless stunt if he doesn’t change the domain. What’s even the point of rebranding when your URL points to the old one. Can this clown do anything right? How he became the next messiah to millions will always elude me.

fluxion@lemmy.world on 21 Aug 2023 11:02 next collapse

Imagine being out of the loop and then being faced with the prospect of downloading “X - Blaze your glory!” when it comes up randomly in your search for twitter.

Fucking trainwreck.

Gnubeutel@feddit.de on 21 Aug 2023 11:13 next collapse

Maybe if they pay extra to be featured at the top?

SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world on 21 Aug 2023 12:32 next collapse

Or they are just not getting new users because they keep mucking around and disabling features. We used to have twitter feeds embedded in our websites for years and this just quit working over the summer. Now we have facebook feeds embedded.

scytale@lemm.ee on 21 Aug 2023 13:48 next collapse

It would even be better if they remove all references to twitter on the app stores so the X app doesn’t come up when searching for twitter.

onionbaggage@lemmynsfw.com on 21 Aug 2023 20:36 collapse

Wow. Who could have predicted that!?!?

emptyother@programming.dev on 22 Aug 2023 10:24 collapse

Anybody with half a half-brain?