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Kyle Barr
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Kyle is a Consumer Tech Reporter for Gizmodo, a longtime player of tabletop games and recent dabbler in historical sword fighting.

It worked for WorldCom, and seems to have worked for Facebook.  Read more

He called on the community to help create an “art deco” design for the new logo” Read more

Why? What's wrong with us X-ers? Ah, whatever, we can't change anything anyway, the world is fucked.
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I assume yes, it would have been easier to build the website he wants from scratch instead of trying to convert a preexisting site into something else, and yes, it would have almost certainly been cheaper, but this way he has a massive user base built in. From scratch might be easier and cheaper to make the website Read more

The good news is that when the ship sinks the water will put out the dumpster fire
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this is exactly what I was thinking...this asshat is trying to get someone to design him a new logo for free...smh Read more

i’m done with it. Fully on board with Threads. I go on twitter every couple of days just to see if there is anybody that I used to follow that i need to find on Threads... Read more

I deactivated my account the day I got a prompt for a new EULA about X Corp. That was confirmation that he really did have a big (stupid) plan for his “everything app,” and I wanted no part of it.
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Hmmm, just deleted it from my phone. Was meaning to for a bit but this is just too much. Read more

wow how stupid, X is what you click to close an app, or turn something off. WHo the hell comes up with this stuff. Twitter is like a bird chirp, so the whole bird thing make sense,this X makes no sense Read more

Looks like a currency slot. Seems appropriate. Money in and machine jams. Read more

So his sycophants might not recall he was booted from Paypal for trying to rebrand it as “X.” This is literally just a dumb old plan he’s necromancing. Read more

It was the same name he was gonna to rebrand PayPal as, before the board booted him. This is an old, dead, dumb idea he’s been sitting on for years. Read more

ok so if it’s been coming for months, then why now?   has zuck made elon nervous?   feeling old?  in need of something fresh?  LOL Read more

That looks SO much like the logo for the X Window System. I’m wondering if they have a case against Twitter, err, “X” using it? Read more