Archived version: https://archive.li/Yg8r8
My favorite part:
But while his reaction the day after learning that X was commandeering his handle was extreme frustration, Vaught told Ars that the platform will remain his primary form of social media.
“it’s highly annoying, but Twitter is still my preferred social media,” Vaught said. “That’s how I communicate and learn my news about what’s going on. Nothing else compares.”
His only “minor protest” to X’s action, he said, was to cancel his Twitter Blue subscription.
Vaught is mostly a Musk fan, as he’s interested in Musk’s electric cars and space developments. He said that this experience with X hasn’t tainted his opinion of Musk or his relationship too much with X as a platform. He’s holding out hope that Musk has a long-term plan for where Musk is taking X, but like many users, he’s struggling to adjust to the rebranding.
Vaught is mostly a Musk fan
Ah, so he’s an idiot. Well that explains his statements.
Vaught is mostly a Musk fan, as he’s interested in Musk’s electric cars and space developments.
So am I. But the guy is an idiot. SpaceX in particular is successful because he isn’t the person running the day-to-day operations.
Gwynne Shotwell does not get enough main stream credit for keeping SpaceX (and Musk) afloat. She’s OP.
Thank you Elon, may I have another?
What stockholm syndrome does to a mf…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“16 years ago, I created @music and have been running it ever since,” Jeremy Vaught, director of engineering at the nonprofit Life Happens, posted on X.
But Vaught never had the time to focus on leveraging the @music audience, only ever benefiting from the account when companies occasionally sent him free perks like headphones in trade for promotions.
Vaught said he was never interested because he knew that selling his handle violated Twitter’s terms of service, and he figured there was more value in keeping the account.
To “minimize any inconvenience” from having his account handle taken away, X defaulted to changing Vaught’s username to @musicfan, which he described as “probably the least worst” alternative the platform suggested.
But while his reaction the day after learning that X was commandeering his handle was extreme frustration, Vaught told Ars that the platform will remain his primary form of social media.
“Twitter’s not dead to me at this point,” Vaught told Ars, even if “it’s a super huge bummer” to lose the @music account.
I’m a bot and I’m open source!
great bot!
Actually a useful bot!
This is hilarious.
I will never not call it Twitter
Birdsite —> Ex-Birdsite for me
Birdshite
That’s not fair. Guano is actually useful.
twitter*
Apparently have never heard of Mastadon
Sorry, only interested in Muskodon
Until Mastadon becomes the go-to for news orgs, governments, and public figures, it won’t be a true Twitter replacement
“Twitter’s not dead to me at this point,”
At this point I’m cheering Musk on.
Anyone who is still on
TwitterXXX deserves this.Should have never stopped calling it twitter, if only to annoy the muskrat And the URL is still twitter too
If Musky was half the genius he thinks he is he never would’ve tried to change the name. Everyone know the name Twitter. Freakin world leaders send out “tweets” to their followers; the brand recognition has to be extremely valuable right?
He bought the company and is apparently doing everything in his power to fuck it up. He’s either stupid or this is all part of some illuminati-type plan and he’s playing kal-toh.
Tweet literally got a word in the dictionary, no other company has that kind of brand recognition
It just shows how detached billiknares cam actually be, he ruined arguably the most recognizable social brand that ever existed
What’s the top three worst things Musk has done? I don’t really follow celebrity news so I’m a bit confused about why everyone seems to hate him all of a sudden. I’m genuinely asking
Well he’s clearly a jerk who doesn’t know when he should just stay silent but I guess this can partly be explained by the fact that he obviously has some form of autism/asberger or something.
I just don’t see anything that major in there. I can think of several worse people who don’t seem to be getting this level of hate so I find it curious what it is about Musk then that he does.
Firstly, being on the autism spectrum (not saying he is or isn’t) doesn’t give you the right to be an asshole, and I’m sure many people who are on it and aren’t assholes will tell you that this take is insulting.
Secondly, when you say there is nothing major on there, you have to keep in mind his level of reach and influence. If your neighbour says “this new Covid thing is going to just blow over, there’ll be no cases soon’”, you can say “OK buddy, hope you’re right but it’s not looking likely”. When Musk says it, he directly contributes massively to the misinformation that has killed a lot of people and changed the whole damn world for the worse
Yeah I agree that with a platform of this size it comes with huge responsibility aswell knowing your words have a real world consequences. Maybe that’s the explanation to the widespreat hate. People much worse than him generally don’t shitpost on social media so we’re not thinking about them
Because whenever there’s a fire, he throws gasoline on it like it’s his life goal to butt heads with the world. And he shows no respect to others, like suddenly taking a user’s username without asking and breaking stuff with no remorse.
Is he statistically the worst person in the world? Probably not. But he does his best to make people feel like he is.
Darwin approved
