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The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops (futurism.com)
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[–] 118 points 10 months ago (17 children)

As an aside, you can tell how successful the rebranding of twitter as “x” has been, since even now more than 2 years after the rebranding news articles still have to add “formerly known as twitter” every time they mention it.

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  • [–] 115 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    I still call it Twitter regularly.

    To me, X is a windowing system.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    X reminds me of a porn site and the X itself kinda associated for me as X rated. Kinda dumb why they changed it from Twitter.

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  • [–] 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    That dumbass throwing away the Twitter brand for a damn letter should be proof enough to anyone that he's a moron

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  • [+] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    It's been two years and it's still going, despite the name change, or, you know, the owner throwing a nazi salute on live television.

    It doesn't seem like the branding was as important as everybody seems to think, or any negative impact was offset by it staying on the news, good or bad, constantly.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    But I also still say Facebook and Google instead of Meta and alphabet

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    Those are changes in parent company names though while the services Facebook and Google still exist. The rebrand of Twitter to X continuing to not stick for people is a much bigger failure on their part than Meta and Alphabet not entering the general zeitgeist.

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