I'll celebrate when no one considers this to be news.
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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I assume we're in a similar boat so let me assure you: no, you won't - because we wouldn't even realize it happened.
Only after s few months one of us will recall this thread and be like "oh, yeah. Twitter. Seems really dead finally. Good."
And to be clear I expect they person to be you because my memory is awful.
What can we do to keep it like this forever?
I still can't believe he nuked the Twitter brand. It was like the most valuable part of the platform. X is such a dumb, generic nothing name.
He is really really dumb person, so it is not surprising he does stupid stuff. Look at cybershit, tesla robot (driven by people remotely), anything he did last year... He is fucking dumb idiot.
You are really surprised by a guy who wanted to name his car series S-E-X-Y and had a temper tantrum when model E was taken and he could not "buy" it.
It's going to be so easy for him to turn that x into a swastika in a couple of years though. Its what's known in tech circles as IED "iterative evil design"
Well, now you can tweet wherever you like and don't have to invent a silly new verb for every new platform.
I like referring to it as xitter, pronounced "shitter". What were once tweets are now steaming piles of xit. Or someone taking/dropping a xit.
X-crements
I'm glad he did, now there is a clear line from when it was acceptable to when it wasn't.
The USA probably won't rebrand when its a fully fascist state.
It just depends on which type of serifs he puts on the X.
I love that for them
Make it permanent next time.
And nothing was lost.
Now this is the kind of X news I'm okay with reading.
Although I can only imagine what this means for the US since Musk is treating the government like one of his businesses.
Oh no.
Anyway…
And nothing of value was lost.
Oh, so that was it?
I just thought my Twitter Piko app was outdated 😅
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But wait, isn’t this some sort of official government communication channel now? Sure there must be uptime agreements and penalties for such a thing, right? Right?!?
I hadn't noticed.
Is tempting to check if it's still down. But wom't touch this ugly domain.
I wouldn't notice
Good. Sadly it was fixed.
Oh no!
Anyway...
Looks like annonomus is saying they took it down.
Elon fired the maintenance guys yet again?
Them people are just paid to sit around. Why would you bother?
Source; work in maintenance.
And the owner wants to "automate" the US government with AI.
The idiots are in charge.
The US are truly turning into a real-life version of "Idiocracy". I'm just waiting for Trump's orders to start watering crops with Gatorade
Just imagine what this saves in hosting bills
“Save 100% with this simple trick!”
Or saving on hosting is what caused the outage.
Elon must be experiencing withdrawal symptoms right about now.
Feature, not a bug
Wooooooo!!
Someone should do a massive DDOS.
Don't give Musk a reason to ~~tell his orange bitch to sign an order making~~ lobby for the government to regulate and control internet traffic.
Using devices inside the country to DoS Twitter will give them an excuse to cry domestic cyber terrorism, and using devices from outside the country will give them an opportunity to justify creating an American equivalent of China's Great Firewall. The time it would keep Twitter down for is comparatively insignificant to the potential consequences of losing online freedom and anonymity.