Elon f*cks Twitter

[Cristiano]

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

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Also had to:

 

[Free]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I used to need to transfer money to a friend. It isn't always so obvious the best way here in the US. Google pay used to be good but then they screwed it up. I used Facebook pay for a while. Zelle can be good. My bank just recently offered it. Those are or were the free options.

Sounds like it is rather different here -- if I need to transfer money to someone, and I know their bank details, I can transfer the cash for free, and it should hit the target account within two hours max (it normally arrives within minutes when I transfer money to an account I have with a different bank).

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Noodles]

I used to need to transfer money to a friend. It isn't always so obvious the best way here in the US. Google pay used to be good but then they screwed it up. I used Facebook pay for a while. Zelle can be good. My bank just recently offered it. Those are or were the free options.

I forget the name but just today listening to the TWIT podcast, This Week In Tech, no relation to the website formerly known as Twitter.

They mentiomed there is some new US government initiative to provide a service like that that banks can use, for free, easily, and I guess a lot of other countries already have such a system.

 

[Isabeau]

We have that here. I didn’t realize it wasn’t really possible in the US. Maybe it has to do with how our central banking system is highly regulated and there aren’t as many different banks allowed in as there are in the US. Many different individual banks = harder to agree on one way to transfer between themselves maybe.

You agree to a secret answer to a question, then transfer to whoever you want using their phone number or email. Useful even for strangers on, say, FB Marketplace, and during COVID, etc.

 

[Essence Lumin]

We have that here. I didn’t realize it wasn’t really possible in the US.

It is possible, just not entirely obvious. Zelle is maybe the most common way, but not all banks support it. Then there is Paypal which is free between personal accounts. And Facebook but of course both people have to have a facebook account.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

To be fair, Elon's mom's family might be Canadian, but they moved there from PA....

 

[Free]

Musk would check into the legal use of 'X,' wouldn't he?

Meta already appears to hold the rights to 'X.' It could make Twitter's rebrand complicated.

Elon Musk renamed Twitter to "X" as part of his latest company overhaul, but it looks as if Meta already holds the rights to the name.

www.businessinsider.com

Twitter may have hit a snag while rolling out its new logo — it seems like Meta already holds the rights to it.

Elon Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion last year, announced that the platform will now be called "X," but Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has already registered an "X" logo in connection to "online social networking services" and "social networking services in the fields of entertainment, gaming, and application development."

Microsoft and other firms have similarly-purposed copyrights on the use of the letter:

The Problem With X? Meta, Microsoft, Hundreds More Own Trademarks to New Twitter Name

 

[detrius]

U+1D54F is the closest you can get to the X logo in Unicode.

U+5350 is closer to Musk's disposition, though.

 

[Fionalein]

Musk would check into the legal use of 'X,' wouldn't he?
Microsoft and other firms have similarly-purposed copyrights on the use of the letter:
The Problem With X? Meta, Microsoft, Hundreds More Own Trademarks to New Twitter Name

X-Box and related stuff

 

[WolfEyes]

To be fair, Elon's mom's family might be Canadian, but they moved there from PA....

Wasn't he born in Africa?

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Wasn't he born in Africa?

Yes, Pretoria, South Africa. However his mom being Canadian let him apply for Canadian citizenship...and from there it would be easier to eventually become an American citizen.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Wasn't he born in Africa?

Yup, but his mom came from Canada, and her family or at leasrt of it, came up from Pennsylvania Dutch area. Which is how I have Haldemans in my family tree [still not 100% certain we're related by blood, or just marriage, but then, that area is kind of woven together anyway because big families + appalachhians = a fair level of endogamy.

 

[WolfEyes]

Yes, Pretoria, South Africa. However his mom being Canadian let him apply for Canadian citizenship...and from there it would be easier to eventually become an American citizen.

That wasn't my point. That point being he wasn't even born anywhere on the North American continent.

 

[Free]

Back to more Musk shitting on his own stuff.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Elon Musk, that stable genius of 3D chess, made his next stunning move: Twitter becomes X! (Still unsure if this is another fun attempt of him, or him being serious. I mean changing a brand name which defines a whole branch of an industry just because you can like Kleenex is beyond stupid).


And why does this X look so strangely familiar to? Oh, that's why!

Very first thing I thought of when I saw Musk's logo was the logo for X server. He's not one for originality, is he.

 

[WolfEyes]

You know who else Xed themselves out of society? Charles Manson and his followers.