I only think of glass onion and chuckle to myself everytime I think of Elon.
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2024
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You know how you always mention that brock turner the rapist is a rapist because brock turner is a rapist who doesn't want people to know that he, brock turner, is a rapist?
Same with elon, owner of the now failing Twitter, who was forced to buy twitter after over committing. Since the purchase elon, owner of the now failing Twitter, then proceeded to continually publicly fail for SOO LONG as he tried to unsuccessfully rebrand Twitter, the now failing site that elon musk owns, to x.
In 1981 IBM tried renaming the computer motherboard the 'planar board'. Nobody would call it the planar board though.
Are any of you fine lemmings currently in business school or studying marketing?
I wonder if this whole branding debacle is already actively studied and discussed in academia.
I don't know if there's much to study about this... make a product shittier and then rebrand to remove any positive brand association with the product when it was better in the past. Yeah, that's a bad idea.
It's insane. It's like bandaid changing their name. Everyone calls adhesive bandages bandaids. Everyone calls micro blogging tweets. (In this niche community of fediverse users maybe not.)
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it would have been perfection if they had done this last thursday (on 4/04), add another fail to the list.
Someone at twitter has clearly never heard of the buttbuttination of Lincoln.
BRB, registering webetwitter.com for the lols..