I heard this about rich people. If one has moderate means one needs other people to thrive. If one is rich, one doesn’t care about other people; that’s the whole point of being rich.

You’ve summed it up perfectly! What I find particularly baffling though is that the rebrand seems to be only half-finished. If you’re going to change it, just do the whole thing. Call it ‘X’ but keep terms like ‘tweet’ around? Strange…

@manton He's confusing the less-plugged-in users who haven't left, particularly the ones who get the "find me on Twitter at" spiel from media figures they follow (like my local sportstalk radio hosts).

@renevanbelzen Interesting. That rings true, although if he was just “moderately” rich, he would also have a board of directors who would never go along with this. I think? 🙂

@martinfeld I just loaded the page, and not only is the stupid “log in to see anything” still in effect, but it’s just a blue X instead of a bird. Everything else, especially the headline “Sign in to Twitter”, is unchanged.

That’s not even half-assed. That’s a quarter-ass at best.

@manton I think this moment from Jurassic Park 2 is pertinent sadly often in tech and constantly within nuTwitter

And in the same process, we’re losing the verb “tweet”? I wonder what the new one will be…

@alexander Perhaps “hit of X”.

@oddevan Haha yep! Let’s say a quarter instead, you’re right! 😂 I mean, he has succeeded in getting everyone to talk about it, but completing the rebranding would have done that too! 👍

@alexander In a tweet, Elon said tweets will just be called x’s. Of course, x isn’t a word. 🙄

they’re ex-Tweets.