San Francisco has opened a complaint and launched an investigation of a giant “X” sign that cropped up Friday on top of the downtown headquarters of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter
Why did they use an image that cropped out the subject of the article??
It looks pop-up Spirit Store quality what the hell
I think Musk has entered his four seasons landscaping part of his Twitter run.
I think the best part is that an “X” in the top corner of a website is a well known sign to close a page. Like, I need to fight the urge to click it to exit out. Beyond that, how the fuck are you even supposed to search anything about it? X is such an ambiguous name. I don’t know why the fuck Musk spent billions on Twitter just to completely rebrand the IP into something so utterly idiotic. Considering his destruction of the platform and firing of most of the staff that maintained it, I would have thought the one thing of value he still had left was name recognition and major cultural ownership of words like “tweet”. I can hardly believe that a decade ago I thought Musk was a genius and I dreamed of working for SpaceX (a dream that faded as soon as I saw employee reviews thank God). Now it’s clear that the man has no idea how to run a small business let alone something as big as Twitter.
He is not a smart man
Didn’t work as the PayPal domain name, but if you try the same idea again and again then surely people will eventually ‘get it’!
The one thing of value he has left is the user base. And it seems that this will not change, no matter what he does. So unfortunately neither Reddit not Twitter will crumble anytime soon…
I think that’s true for Reddit because Huffman hasn’t done anything dramatic enough to lose the base yet unfortunately. But I think Twitter’s base has been melting away. Hard to say because only Musk has the numbers. But with Threads out there now with millions of users and Mastodon having over a million users, the disillusionment with Twitter is much more clearly shown.
It looks like it could fall over with any gust of wind and kill someone.
Do I get to choose who?
Don’t worry, it’s being held down with sandbags.
I mean, I shouldn’t be surprised, but that looks like absolute shit.
It looks like something under construction. I would think they were building something that didn’t fit the building on the roof if I saw that.
Lmao thanks for this. It somehow looks even worse than I imagined.
I don’t know what I was expecting but this is somehow worse.
Now I am nostalgic for Erector sets.
Is it finished?
That must be why there were a couple helicopters flying above it a few days ago.
This was my exact feeling.
Then I thought “I remember when news was easy and available to search on Twitter”
And then the answer was here. So thank you.
I spent way too long searching for the X. Is it hidden in the Twitter lettering or one of the windows?.. God I’m a dumbass
I bet the people who work at SpaceX and Tesla are having a really nice year, just getting on with their work unbothered while Musk is focusing all of his dumb energy on Twitter.
Everyone at Boring Co just hoping he forgets they exist
Apparently they are still referring to it as Twitter in the update notes, and can’t change the name to X in iOS because Apple has a 2 character minimum for app names.
Plus the fact that X is already trademarked in many countries.
All of which they’d know if their dumbass CEO — er, I mean their CTO who definitely isn’t running the company because they have a CEO who is a different person — had bothered to look into it.
On iOS I only just yesterday finally got a suggested app update so the icon could change. It’s been the bird still all week. Not exactly prepared, were they.
Lmao
I guess they must count graphemes instead of bytes — “𝕩” is four bytes.
“Great, can’t wait to open up my U+1D54F app and send off a bunch of U+1D54Fs!”
—Musk, probably
It’s sweet that he’d rename it again in honor of his next child. What a swell guy.
Interesting that Musk has money for this, but somehow can’t pay any of twitter’s other bills.
I don’t know that he has money for this. It appears to be fashioned out of plastic coat hangers they had lying around.
Literally looks like he went to a scrapyard and stole some metal poles.
Elon’s “Move fast, break stuff” philosophy includes municipal codes.
I don’t get why he’s so allergic to getting permits.
That would imply an authority higher than Elon that he must submit to, and that just isn’t possible.
He’s a spoiled, self-congratulatory, masturbatory narcissist who has never experienced even basic levels of hardship.
I’ve largely been using mastodon since twitter just looks like garbage.
Wonder if it’ll light up and glow at night, it’s already pretty tacky so I wouldn’t be surprised tbh
Probably even animated, maybe it pulses every time Pedon tweets one of his brain farts to make sure the whole neighborhood knows about it
Before you know it he will change his name to Exon Musx Xquire
The X stands for xociax medix.
Now I know who xxlegolasxx was… what a noob
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City officials say replacing letters or symbols on buildings, or erecting a sign on top of one, requires a permit for design and safety reasons.
OK but this is pretty ridiculous too
Why? You don’t want that crap to fall on people’s heads.
Permit doesn’t prevent that.
Getting a permit means getting an inspection to prevent literally that.
“Inspection” as in you pay some bureaucrat $X and he signs you a paper so you can put a sign on your fking wall
