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@dcon said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@DogsB said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
New accounts! Tell us about new accounts!
I'm surprised they didn't just auto-create Threads accounts for all the existing Instagram accounts since they're linked anyways.
GDPR is always a safe bet.
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@PleegWat The Irish data protection authority has fined Meta something like a billion euros over the last couple of years, so yes, likely.
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When Musk tried to pull out of his commitment to buy Twitter, he hired the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to handle the lawsuit that eventually forced himk to complete the merger. Musk finally honored the merger contract in October when it became clear that he would likely lose in court.
After the Musk/Twitter deal closed on Wachtell allegedly charged Twitter $90 million for several months of work.
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@DogsB said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
Its Facebook! I’m surprised they’re not asking you for passports and social security numbers.
And as I can be damn sure they have no valid reason to collect that data they can be slapped with a massive GDPR violation fine from the start!
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@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@PleegWat The Irish data protection authority has fined Meta something like a billion euros over the last couple of years, so yes, likely.
They’re all in appeal land so they’re theoretical fines at the moment. I wonder if the Irish government got a bigger cut would it go faster but you’re wanderng into the garage there.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
When Musk tried to pull out of his commitment to buy Twitter, he hired the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to handle the lawsuit that eventually forced himk to complete the merger. Musk finally honored the merger contract in October when it became clear that he would likely lose in court.
After the Musk/Twitter deal closed on Wachtell allegedly charged Twitter $90 million for several months of work.
Considering how little they’ve paid in fines and settlements thats money well spent.
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@dcon said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@DogsB said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
New accounts! Tell us about new accounts!
I'm surprised they didn't just auto-create Threads accounts for all the existing Instagram accounts since they're linked anyways.
That worked so well for Google Buzz.
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@PleegWat said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@dcon said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@DogsB said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
New accounts! Tell us about new accounts!
I'm surprised they didn't just auto-create Threads accounts for all the existing Instagram accounts since they're linked anyways.
GDPR is always a safe bet.
Yeah, so far they're staying completely out of
Europethe EU.
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@DogsB said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
New accounts! Tell us about new accounts!
They got one from me: I made a throwaway Threads account using my throwaway Instagram account. It's an even more restrictive Twitter (no web access, can't save/copy/repost media) which doesn't have a "feed" that only shows you posts from people you've picked. I expect it to be just as unsuccessful as every other Twitter copycat we've seen over the years.
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Hashtags are like 70% of the fucking product. Also, when did basic crud get so hard?
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@DogsB said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
Also, when did basic crud get so hard?
I wonder if Threads will also cost 36 billion billion just like that other thing where...
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@Applied-Mediocrity ignoring the required hardware infrastructure and ads / networking effect, you could probably get the code for a workable twitter alternative just out of some of the forum members’ hobby projects. Or by telling some Linux nerds “it can’t be done” just so they’ll disprove you.
Alas, the publicity is more integral than the actual product quality, so it doesn’t work that way.
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@topspin said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
telling some Linux nerds “it can’t be done” just so they’ll disprove you.
: it already exists and it's called Mastodon.
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Alas Meta did not name their thing Contrails.
(it would have been too much on the nose; people might actually associate it with the idea that they are easily tracked by what they leave behind)
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@Zecc said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
people might actually associate it with the idea that they are easily tracked by what they leave behind
And also with the fact that most of them are easily conned.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
When Musk tried to pull out of his commitment to buy Twitter, he hired the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to handle the lawsuit that eventually forced himk to complete the merger. Musk finally honored the merger contract in October when it became clear that he would likely lose in court.
After the Musk/Twitter deal closed on Wachtell allegedly charged Twitter $90 million for several months of work.
So now Elon will take a law firm to handle the lawsuit with that law firm, and when he loses and get the bill for that lawsuit, he'll sue them and get another law firm...
The only question is whether the resulting series is monotonous (that's where the starts) and if so, if it's increasing or decreasing .
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@remi said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
monotonous
I think the word you wanted is monotonic, because anything involving lawsuits is almost guaranteed to be monotonous.
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@HardwareGeek I knew there was something wrong there but
couldn't find itdidn't bother and trusted TD to find it for me.Also a monotonically increasing series of fees would probably take quite a while before becoming monotonous.
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@remi said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
The only question is whether the resulting series is monotonous
Well, it will at least be finite. He'll run out of law firms at some point.
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@PleegWat I don't know, lawyers and other primitive lifeforms reproduce quickly under favorable conditions, such as plentiful availability of food or money.
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In news that will surprise no one, Twitter is still not cash flow net-positive in spite of all the mass cost-cutting, in no small part because the loss of advertiser revenue is still significantly down from before bought it, and showing little sign of returning. Especially given the number of people who can view Twitter (and thus the views metric for ads) has been greatly reduced…
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@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
In news that will surprise no one, Twitter is still not cash flow net-positive in spite of all the mass cost-cutting, in no small part because the loss of advertiser revenue is still significantly down from before bought it, and showing little sign of returning.
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Wannabe super-villain asks the internet to come up with a letter logo for his “everything app”. Doesn’t consult ’s letter CDN.
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@topspin he wouldn’t pay the CDN fee anyway. Better to get free art from the community anyway.
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@topspin said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
Wannabe super-villain asks the internet to come up with a letter logo for his “everything app”. Doesn’t consult ’s letter CDN.
His X.com was a spectacular fail upwards operation, he's trying to rekindle good memories it seems.
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In Elon's world, every day is April 1st.
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@topspin said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
Elon Musk rebrands Twitter to 'X,'
x.com redirects to twitter. My guess: they couldn't make it work the other way around.
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A popular view on the App Formerly Known As Twitter is that with the new branding, one could refer to it as Xitter.
Which could well be pronounced Shitter.
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Plausible.
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@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
A popular view on the App Formerly Known As Twitter is that with the new branding, one could refer to it as Xitter.
Which could well be pronounced Shitter.
So instead of a tweet, we have...
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@loopback0 said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
So instead of Tweets, we have...
We always have had.
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@HardwareGeek no, the text size limit wasn't big enough for the full thing until recently.
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Since twitter is full of twats, the messages posted there should be called queefs.
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@Carnage said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
Since twitter is full of twats, the messages posted there should be called queefs.
So Musk gets upgraded from Chief Twit to Chief Queef?
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At long last, birds will be free from the indignity of being associated with the shite formerly known as Twatter. Rejoice!
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@topspin said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@Carnage said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
Since twitter is full of twats, the messages posted there should be called queefs.
So Musk gets upgraded from Chief Twit to Chief Queef?
I really want to post shit like this @musk but I want to not have a twatex account even more.
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So, should we rename the thread to "In other hostile takeover exes"?
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@topspin said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
Wannabe super-villain asks the internet to come up with a letter logo for his “everything app”. Doesn’t consult ’s letter CDN.
next, triple that x. And use that triple as the toplevel domain.
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@topspin said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
What I found amazing is that neither he nor the interwebz couldn't do any better than stealing a 40 years old logo. That, or he's been trolled very hard.
Though maybe he wants to solve Twitter's network issues by confusing everyone about what is the "client" and what is the "server?"
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Here. I made an X logo.
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@remi oh, the people who get paid seven figures to design a logo consisting of a letter, 4 squares, or simply the text yahoo! in purple will tell you that this logo is completely different.
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@Zecc that is so low-effort, the warthog bows before you.
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On a totally unrelated but still related topic, apparently the big outcome of the latest management meeting was that we're going to have a company rebranding/renaming.
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@remi my company had a rebrand/rename a couple of years ago, but honestly this was a good move. It’s not always doom and gloom to rebrand, but it’s usually a bad idea.
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@Arantor Yeah, in most cases bad publicity is still publicity. People remember the name, but they forget why they remember it.
Successful rebrandings are often consolidating brands, though I also remember a few cases where the name was changed to avoid an undesirable association in a new market (like jif -> cif).
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@Arantor it sometimes makes sense, either externally (if your company has significantly shifted in its business, or wants to shed some past image) or internally (typically when you're merging two similarly-sized companies, it can sometimes be good to use a new name as a way to try and smooth out the transition).
In our case I suspect the thinking is the first one, management wants us to significantly change our business focus. But above the usual waste of money this will be, the main problem is that this is wishful thinking for now. It's "we want to pivot the company" not "the company is pivoting," which means the change of name will probably hurt us in our historical business (where we're well established and known) and is a complete gamble in the new business. So it doesn't fill me with confidence, at all.
The other thing is that purely sentimentally, the current name has been used for about a hundred years and I would feel sad if it were to go away, but that's not a real strong business argument -- and besides, some coffee-room noises are hinting that the renaming might keep the old name and wrap it in something new (e.g. turn "Foo" into "The Foo Group" or something similar).
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In our case it was simply that the original name was stupid, hard to spell, easy to misunderstand over the phone etc. and just crap from a brand perspective - so we renamed to something pronounceable and that people can remember without drama.