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When Is Twitter Changing to X? The Rebranding, Explained

Elon Musk is rebranding Twitter as X in a bid to save his investment, but many want to know when that rebranding is set to actually take place. In the months since Elon Musk officially purchased Twitter, it’s fair to say that the sailing hasn’t been super smooth. The platform is dealing with a wave …

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Twitter Rebrand Reaction Tweets

Naturally, people started memeing and sharing jokes about the whole thing — because sometimes, that’s all you can do in a crisis. Here are some of the best tweets. Which also, according to a tweet from Elon, may soon no longer be called tweets. 😭😭 Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/chelseastewart/twitter-rebrand-x-reactions

Elon Musk Has Vowed To Rebrand Twitter As ‘X,’ And People Sure Had Jokes

Getty Image For the first 15 years of its life, Twitter was never exactly a calm place, but it was, for the most part, reliable. Any major changes Jack Dorsey and his team came infrequently. Then Elon Musk got his mitts on it. Nowadays not much time goes by without chaos reigning. It’s been a …

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A Twitter Post Has People Reminiscing About Travel Before Smart Phones

UPROXX/STEPHEN BRAMUCCI/MERLE COOPER As summer travel continues to raise the question of, “Just how did this person afford this European trip?” over and over again, it’s time to finally pay our respects to our tried and true travel companion: the smart phone. Long ago in a time far, far away, people actually had to religiously …

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‘Margot Robbie is mid’ is the sexist Twitter discourse from hell

If you need any further reasons to question the taste of straight men online, look no further than the Twitter debate over whether Margot Robbie is secretly “mid.” Literally cast as an embodiment of aspirational beauty, Barbie star Margot Robbie is conventionally attractive by any reasonable metric. So when a handful of guys on Twitter …

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Tucker Carlson Might Be Missing Fox News After Seeing The Plummeting Viewership For His Twitter Show

twitter The most-watched episode for many shows is its series premiere. There’s a curiosity factor — is this for me, or will I never watch it again? When it comes to Tucker Carlson’s nutty Twitter show, the people have spoken: they’re out. The first episode of Tucker on Twitter, which debuted last month, has over …

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Which app will become the biggest threat to Twitter?

Analysis I’ve been talking about people leaving Twitter for a while in this column. But this week, it actually began to happen. People are still using Twitter, of course, and there’s plenty of discourse going on on that app. But the alternative apps really began to take off after last weekend, when Elon Musk announced …

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Why is everyone talking about Threads? A quick look at the wholesome Twitter alternative

If you’re like me, you were probably a little lost when everyone started talking about thread overnight. Is there a sewing convention touring the United States? Are we learning a new survival skill for the end times? After some very quick, not-so-deep research in the halls of influencers’ comment sections, I quickly learned people weren’t …

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Elon Musk mocked fired Twitter employees as ‘geniuses’—he now wants to sue, claiming they helped start Threads

When Elon Musk joined Twitter, he took a scythe to its workforce. By some reports, Musk fired over 80% of its employees. As a result, the site has seen a degradation in reliability and content moderation. Things got so bad that over the 4th of July, Musk limited how many tweets people could read. Now, …

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Don Jr. Already Comes With A ‘False Information’ Warning Label On Threads, Facebook’s Twitter Competitor That Has Barely Been Live For 24 Hours

Getty Image Threads has barely been online for 24 hours, and already, the new social media platform from Meta that aims to compete with Twitter is allegedly flagging Donald Trump Jr. as a source of misinformation. According to screencaps shared by the former president’s son, Threads users are warned not to follow Don Jr. on …

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