Everybody's heard about the bird, but apparently, the bird is no longer the word.
Musk says Twitter to change logo to "X" from the bird. Changes could come as early as Monday.
Elon Musk plans to change the logo of Twitter to an “X” from the famous blue bird, marking what would be the latest big change since he bought the social media platform for $44 billion last year.
apnews.com
If this is true, and it appears that it is, then I am so dang glad that I do not ever need my existence blighted by those annoying blue birds showing up as icons next to all the other tacky and technologically licentious social media icons. I wonder how such a silly gimmick of 140-characters-or-fewer (and later 280) became such a cultural and technological Tour de Force. If there is any social media website known for pettiness and snarling mobs who can't wait to cancel the crap out of someone they do not like, it is Twitter. If I wanted to see someone's tweets, I would go to their account and read them myself; I do not want it blasted into my face by other mediums, such as through, say, Kreayshawn's objectively abysmal lyrics; or through Legacy Media constantly reporting on Trump's formerly constant tweets. Sad!
But ever since Musk has taken over, I really like the changes its operations have undergone, and how he is turning Twitter's perceptions and its relationship with the world on its head. So many people are freaking out over things such as the $8/month blue checkmark rule, re-instating long-banned accounts of controversial people, and encouraging free speech and its discourse. He also has made a strong stance against both pedophilia and positive propagation thereof. This shows more spine than other social media sites historically have regarding such content. And to those who want to default to thinking that hype about pedophilia and grooming is just some "QAnon crazy talk", that is an opinion that can go too far. Because, while conspiracy theories such as Pizzagate are clearly absurd, these discourses of absurdity and prurient "truth-seeking" should not cloud the fact that pedophilia, grooming, and institutional gaslighting being taught as fact have a very real effect on the world we live in. Yet somehow, the people who get angry about such things are the real villains.
Therefore, my opinion here is that, of all the blood-sucking technocratic overlord ghouls that make billions of dollars off of plunging the world into a global, internet-ruled surveillance state; I would most want to hang out and have a beer with Elon Musk.
Twitter: Five ways Elon Musk has changed the platform for users
Twitter users say the social network has "a different vibe" since the billionaire took charge.
www.bbc.com
As for Threads, I really wonder if the world really needs another social media website/app run by Meta. They already have Facebook, and bought up Instagram a few years ago. Does the public really want to sleepily tolerate, and therefore passively accept by means of resistance neglected, another head on the Meta-Hydra designed to control the public's actions and thoughts, and let their existence be filtered through Big Tech? And as I was researching for this thread, I realized that I had not heard of Facebook's app Paper in a few years. Maybe it was because I have not had a Facebook account since 2015, and I was out of the loop due to me caring more about Muh Freedom than about social media FOMO. Turns out that Paper, which was launched in 2014 and is not actually paper, was shut down in July 2016. So, yeah, that app failed!
And just because Facebook and Instagram are two of the biggest forces in our internet/phone world today, does not mean that Meta can't continue to fail with other endeavors.
I've made fun of Elon Musk in the past. You know, for having a fish face. For giving his children with Grimes unpronounceable names, and then being dumped by Grimes (whom he met on... guess which website). For having a name that rhymes with "Melon Husk". For not knowing what to do with his thumbs when people are taking pictures of him. For smoking reefer at inopportune times during podcasts. For having almost as many children as Nick Cannon. For having male-pattern baldness in his 20s that somehow disappeared and gave way to a glorious, illustrious mane. But no, I will not stoop to that level today. Because he has done something that even Ted Kaczynski had no ability to do, and that is: Elon Musk has bombed Twitter!
Down with colonial Twitter (2006-2023)! All hail X!
Okay, I probably still won't get an account. But hey, sometimes change is necessary. Moving on from this tech overlord morass brought by Yucky Zuck and Co. could really help the world a lot. I really like how Musk is moving Twitter, now known as X, and therefore the social media scene, forward. It's definitely a welcome change in a world that always seems to want to catch up with the Tech-Joneses and their crappy products, while keeping things institutionally the same.
As for those Teslas, well...
