Archived version: https://archive.li/Yg8r8

My favorite part:

But while his reaction the day after learning that X was commandeering his handle was extreme frustration, Vaught told Ars that the platform will remain his primary form of social media.

“it’s highly annoying, but Twitter is still my preferred social media,” Vaught said. “That’s how I communicate and learn my news about what’s going on. Nothing else compares.”

His only “minor protest” to X’s action, he said, was to cancel his Twitter Blue subscription.

Vaught is mostly a Musk fan, as he’s interested in Musk’s electric cars and space developments. He said that this experience with X hasn’t tainted his opinion of Musk or his relationship too much with X as a platform. He’s holding out hope that Musk has a long-term plan for where Musk is taking X, but like many users, he’s struggling to adjust to the rebranding.

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    1 year ago

    Should have never stopped calling it twitter, if only to annoy the muskrat And the URL is still twitter too

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      1 year ago

      If Musky was half the genius he thinks he is he never would’ve tried to change the name. Everyone know the name Twitter. Freakin world leaders send out “tweets” to their followers; the brand recognition has to be extremely valuable right?

      He bought the company and is apparently doing everything in his power to fuck it up. He’s either stupid or this is all part of some illuminati-type plan and he’s playing kal-toh.

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        1 year ago

        Tweet literally got a word in the dictionary, no other company has that kind of brand recognition

        It just shows how detached billiknares cam actually be, he ruined arguably the most recognizable social brand that ever existed