So ultimately... why was Twitter rebranded as X?

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The_Popo
05/17/2024
03:49 PM
#1
Is the answer just Reasons?
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HighSeraph
05/17/2024
03:49 PM
#2
Cause Elon is a child
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TMOG
05/17/2024
03:49 PM
#3
Because Elon is a complete dumbass
Rial_Kai
05/17/2024
03:52 PM
#4
They are correct. Elon is a dumbass child. He loves the letter X because he thinks it is cool. He never grew out of his "X is badass" phase. He's incredibly immature.
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Giant_Aspirin
05/17/2024
03:56 PM
#5
because

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Mystereave
05/17/2024
03:57 PM
#6
Didn't he want to change Paypal to X as well during the short time he was on their board?
CRON
05/17/2024
03:57 PM
#7
For reasons that are not nice to bring up in today's current climate, Elon Musk has a bizarre fixation with the letter X and has used it a number of times in the past.
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Sayoria
05/17/2024
03:57 PM
#8
Because it's so cool!

....Said the edgy teenage wannabe from South Africa.
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Turbam
05/17/2024
03:58 PM
#9
Elon has a weird obsession with the letter
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Hexenherz
05/17/2024
04:00 PM
#10
Maybe he'll rebrand SpaceX to S and Tesla to Y and PayPal to E because middle school humor
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Samurai_Man
05/17/2024
04:00 PM
#11
Sayoria posted...
Because it's so cool!

....Said the edgy teenage wannabe with a family emerald mine from South Africa.

Fixed that lol, can't let anyone forget he didn't come from humble beginnings!
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SpawnShadow
05/17/2024
04:02 PM
#12
Mystereave posted...
Didn't he want to change Paypal to X as well during the short time he was on their board?
It was "X" before it was PayPal. The Muskrat's original x.com had merged with Confinity (which had a payment system called "PayPal"), and then Peter Thiel (in a rare W for him) kicked him off the merged company's board and changed the website/company's name from Muskrat's stupid obsession to that of the existing payment system.
Solar_Crimson
05/17/2024
04:02 PM
#13
Elon has a fetish for the letter X.
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Seaman_Prime
05/17/2024
04:03 PM
#14
So Elon can say he made X because clearly he didnt make Twitter.
Giant_Aspirin
05/17/2024
04:03 PM
#15
Samurai_Man posted...
Fixed that lol, can't let anyone forget he didn't come from humble beginnings!

my dad's girlfriend is a Fox Newsie and Elon came up the last time we were together. i made a comment about how he's not a brilliant inventor at all, none of the companies he owns were his ideas (he just bought them), and that he came from a rich family. she strongly insisted that i was wrong and that Elon got "no help whatsoever from his family in starting his businesses".

so then I googled "did Elon Musk come from a rich family" and most of the articles i saw were defending him , claiming that his family wasn't all that rich and they only had a 'small stake' in the mining business or some nonsense. these articles also claim he 'never inherited anything, ever'.

the propaganda network of the rich is scary effective.
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Sheiky-Baby
05/17/2024
04:03 PM
#16
I'm assuming Musk is a huge X-Men fan?
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UnsteadyOwl
05/17/2024
04:04 PM
#17
Mystereave posted...
Didn't he want to change Paypal to X as well during the short time he was on their board?
I think so. The online payment service he co-founded in the 90s was called x.com but that name was dropped when it merged with the company that would become PayPal. Apparently even at the time there were people telling him X is a bad name but he loves it for some reason.
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Kradek
05/17/2024
04:06 PM
#18
Musk is the kind of person who makes even teenage edgelords cringe.
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Board_hunter567
05/17/2024
04:09 PM
#19
Elon has longed wanted an "everything" platform named X. He thought he'd be able to buy Twitter to get a jumpstart on users and add in new functionality and features real quick and easy.
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SpawnShadow
05/17/2024
04:09 PM
#20
Sheiky-Baby posted...
I'm assuming Musk is a huge X-Men fan?
If he is, then he clearly missed the point of the entire franchise starting with at least Claremont's original run.
K181
05/17/2024
04:09 PM
#21
Elon's a manchild with a weird fascination with that letter.
Irregardless, for all intensive purposes, I could care less.
Diceheist
05/17/2024
04:10 PM
#22
Elon Musk is still bitter about being fired from leadership of the previous x.com (an online banking service, that ended up merged into PayPal) back in the year 2000, when its board of directors opted to move forward with Peter Thiel as CEO instead.

After becoming richer and more powerful he bought the x.com domain back from PayPal in 2017, and revived it years later by rebranding Twitter into it.

This was the site that for decades Elon was broken up about losing: https://web.archive.org/web/20000408232656/http://www.x.com/
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MrMolinaro
05/17/2024
04:14 PM
#23
Tricking people into clicking the main page button when they try to close their tabs. Also, Elon is a 12 year old edge lord.
LinkDaLunatic
05/17/2024
04:18 PM
#24
xXx_E10N_MU5k3T_xXx

(No Elon, this isn't an idea for your next kid's name)
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Axiom
05/17/2024
04:20 PM
#25
Diceheist posted...
Elon Musk is still bitter about being fired from leadership of the previous x.com (an online banking service, that ended up merged into PayPal) back in the year 2000, when its board of directors opted to move forward with Peter Thiel as CEO instead.

After becoming richer and more powerful he bought the x.com domain back from PayPal in 2017, and revived it years later by rebranding Twitter into it.

This was the site that for decades Elon was broken up about losing: https://web.archive.org/web/20000408232656/http://www.x.com/
Lmao thats great. Imagine having this much ego
PeteyParker
05/17/2024
04:21 PM
#26
Elon has a small pee pee and he's an edgelord who needs adoration but it's too much work to get that by actually being a good person so he appeals to the scum of society instead because it's much easier to get those people to like you.
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ClayGuida
05/17/2024
04:21 PM
#27
The only people that call it X are news orgs. Nobody else calls it that. It's Twitter then, now, forever.
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SammyLiimex
05/17/2024
04:22 PM
#28
Rial_Kai posted...
They are correct. Elon is a dumbass child. He loves the letter X because he thinks it is cool. He never grew out of his "X is badass" phase. He's incredibly immature.

Raiden2909
05/17/2024
04:23 PM
#29
Because Elon is a man child who never grew out of his teenage edgy phase and think's the letter X is the greatest letter

Or he was Norted
MI4_REAL
05/17/2024
04:24 PM
#30
Space X.

Also, back then, xXx-XxX (or vice versa) was a meme back then.
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PissedOffMonk
05/17/2024
04:25 PM
#31
Turbam posted...
Elon has a weird obsession with the letter

I heard he will only play Tic Tac Toe if he gets to be X. No xceptions.

DrizztLink
05/17/2024
04:25 PM
#32
Because Elon Musk is an actual knuckle-dragging idiot.
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DarthAragorn
05/17/2024
04:26 PM
#33
I don't know if Elon plays video games but if he does he probably still uses xXx on both sides of whatever dumb username he picked
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boomgetchopped3
05/17/2024
04:34 PM
#34
I hate him
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MI4_REAL
05/17/2024
04:35 PM
#35
I literally asked this back then in 2017 at Kennedy Space Center.

SpaceX is not a sister project to NASA
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Robot2600
05/17/2024
04:35 PM
#36
DarthAragorn posted...
I don't know if Elon plays video games but if he does he probably still uses xXx on both sides of whatever dumb username he picked

you never played against xXx_X_xXx? that's him
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LinkDaLunatic
05/17/2024
05:39 PM
#37
Elon making an account...

Elon: X

Error: Username must be at least five characters.

Elon: XXXXX

Error: Username must contain at least one upper and one lowercase letter, one number, and one special character.

Elon: ...

Elon: xX10
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BakonBitz
05/17/2024
05:43 PM
#38
Because it was literally his dream to own a domain/company named "X." That's the only reason.
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The_Popo
05/17/2024
05:47 PM
#39
Diceheist posted...
Elon Musk is still bitter about being fired from leadership of the previous x.com (an online banking service, that ended up merged into PayPal) back in the year 2000, when its board of directors opted to move forward with Peter Thiel as CEO instead.

After becoming richer and more powerful he bought the x.com domain back from PayPal in 2017, and revived it years later by rebranding Twitter into it.

This was the site that for decades Elon was broken up about losing: https://web.archive.org/web/20000408232656/http://www.x.com/

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/81e6ac98.jpg

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mybbqrules
05/17/2024
08:47 PM
#40
Because Elon is essentially a 13 year old internet edgelord who thinks shit with "X" in it is edgy and cool.

See also: "SpaceX".

I bet he was one of those "Xx420Alphagamer69xX" gamer tags on Xbox live.
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dameon_reaper
05/17/2024
08:48 PM
#41
he's got that edgelord thing going on. Look at his children and their names.
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