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Twitter likely to take idiots offer to buy them for $43 billion


Which got this response.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "lololol ..." / Twitter
lololol I have never experienced more harassment on this platform than I do now. People now pay to give their harassment more visibility.

The de-verification of journalists, civic orgs, and figures has made it impossible to follow conversations. I wish it could be usable again
And yet she posted this on Twitter. If it's not usable stop using it.
I have no doubt she receives a crazy amount of vitriol on Twitter. I do and I'm a nobody.

She can tweet but it's probably not a place where she can engage in conversation
 
Musk didn't think the new name through very well. Do a search for X and you'll see why.
:LOL:

Oh he thought about. He got the idea already way back in the 90s when he wanted to call paypal "X". And he named his son "X Æ A-Xii". He's completely bonkers about the name and has probably been thinking about it for 20 years from every angle, including the pornographic one. But he still did it.

I'm too young to remember new coke, but I have heard the tales at the campfire that elders tell. This rebranding sounds like it's on par with that, and give it a year or two and it'll switch back to twitter because X is just too generic.
 
So, apparently now "tweets" are called "xeets" officially. And twitter is "xitter" unofficially. X pronounced like it is in "Xi Jinping", I presume.
So it's pronounce cheats???

Sounds more like zhitter, or getting the zhits,

but I'm no expert.

Perhaps Barbos will come explain American culture to us.
Tom
 
Musk didn't think the new name through very well. Do a search for X and you'll see why.
:LOL:

Oh he thought about. He got the idea already way back in the 90s when he wanted to call paypal "X". And he named his son "X Æ A-Xii". He's completely bonkers about the name and has probably been thinking about it for 20 years from every angle, including the pornographic one. But he still did it.

I'm too young to remember new coke, but I have heard the tales at the campfire that elders tell. This rebranding sounds like it's on par with that, and give it a year or two and it'll switch back to twitter because X is just too generic.
New Coke took the dominant product in the market and changed it to be like the runner-up. It was probably the greatest marketing blunder in history. It was an order of magnitude worse than what Musk has done, which is basically taking chicken shit and turning it into pig shit.
 
Musk didn't think the new name through very well. Do a search for X and you'll see why.
:LOL:

Oh he thought about. He got the idea already way back in the 90s when he wanted to call paypal "X". And he named his son "X Æ A-Xii". He's completely bonkers about the name and has probably been thinking about it for 20 years from every angle, including the pornographic one. But he still did it.

I'm too young to remember new coke, but I have heard the tales at the campfire that elders tell. This rebranding sounds like it's on par with that, and give it a year or two and it'll switch back to twitter because X is just too generic.
New Coke took the dominant product in the market and changed it to be like the runner-up. It was probably the greatest marketing blunder in history. It was an order of magnitude worse than what Musk has done, which is basically taking chicken shit and turning it into pig shit.
It’s spelled “xit”.
 
I'm starting to believe this is all intentional. He was forced to buy Twitter because of his poorly thought out boasting. So he is turning it into the biggest internet dumpster fire, fucking with all its users as he goes in retaliation.
 
So, apparently now "tweets" are called "xeets" officially. And twitter is "xitter" unofficially. X pronounced like it is in "Xi Jinping", I presume.
So it's pronounce cheats???

When they put Chinese sounds to the Roman alphabet they did so in a logical fashion, making a one-to-one mapping between letters and sounds. To the extent that they could make them the sound the same as English they did so, but some letters weren't needed and got recycled. X is one of them, it's pronounced "sh" as in "sheep".
 
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