"Twitter...was killed by its unhinged owner Elon Musk on Sunday. It was 17 years old."

[highplainsdem]

Tweet from Charlie Sykes, then the newsletter from CNN's Oliver Darcy that he's quoting and linking to.

Link to tweet

https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1690244357849067279a145c9/raw?utm_term=1690244357849067279a145c9&utm_source=cnn_Reliable+Sources+-+July+24%2C+2023&utm_medium=email&bt_ee=c15W3ccFkPwnt6ih2oT3%2BW3I0V%2FWWvP0tRzZsxFwh2KjgdM1hA1%2Ff47ulQbdO8Y5&bt_ts=1690244357855

Twitter, the text-based social media platform that played an outsized role on society by serving as a digital town square, was killed by its unhinged owner Elon Musk on Sunday. It was 17 years old.

A zombie Twitter, known only as X, reluctantly endures. A warped and disfigured platform, X marches on like a White Walker, an ugly shell of its former self under the command of a loathsome leader.

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X will, of course, inherit all of Twitter's business problems. Musk is the entity that has proven toxic to advertisers and much of the user base, not the widely recognized bird logo. How the billionaire ultimately turns that ship around is unclear, particularly as he faces new competition from Mark Zuckerberg and Threads.

So far, however, there is little hope Musk will be able to successfully steer the ship out of iceberg-ridden waters. He is, after all, the captain who led the ship into them — all while manically laughing alongside his inner circle while standing at the wheel.

[Deuxcents]

2. I never had a Twitter account but the information

We could get from all over the world seemed valuable at times and in real time. Lots of nonsense but lots of fun stuff like animals and kids. Unbelievable how this one man could spend so much money to control the platform and then promptly mess it up. Looking in from the outside, it’s like a joke but not so for so many as a way to communicate.

[AllaN01Bear]

3. he did buy it so his buddy trump could come back on and spew his lies .

now we have truth social powered by at and t. hem

[wishstar]

5. and still his buddy has not yet come back to Twitter

when that undoubtedly was prime motivation for taking over Twitter but backfiring like the whole fiasco

[Crunchy Frog]

11. There's also his buddy Putin.

He's not on it either, but his cronies, both official and unofficial are there spewing their venom and his troll farms spew firehoses of propaganda, often endorsed by Musk. So it's quite useful to him.

[markodochartaigh]

4. Maybe instead of the little blue tweety bird,

they can use the puce-rumped cuckoo bird.

[Frasier Balzov]

6. X was Musk's plan to dominate the peer-to-peer digital cash space.

He took over Twitter because he thought it was a ready-made platform to host X.

It was a blunder.

He should have bought Western Union.

[AZ8theist]

7. I thought this was a better rebrand for Twitter than the bird or an X:

[Xanchez]

8. Question. Why is the bird logo still showing up for me?

And when I uninstall the app and install it again, the bird logo is still there.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. Because they're handling the rebrand so poorly, they haven't gotten a new logo for apps yet.

[highplainsdem]

12. Don't know. It doesn't show up ON Twitter, for me, but only when I view a tweet elsewhere.

I see it on the tweet embedded in the DU message, but when I click the body of the message to open it in another tab so I'm looking directly at Twitter, the bird disappears.

This wouldn't be the first time Musk ordered what he thought would be a simple change, only to discover the site's software couldn't be changed that easily.

[617Blue]

9. He bought it for the wrong reasons

and now he'll deal with the consequences. Although he will continue to have millions of incel fanboys and the financial press will still largely treat him like a genius savant - certainly some of the shine is off the apple of Elon Musk.