Technology

So is he changing name again to XVideo?

It's amazing watching a platform with no substantial competitor kill itself so badly. AltaVista was killed by Google, MySpace was killed by Facebook, Twitter is killed by the ramblings of the lunatic who bought it.

"What if we ignored what made our platform successful and instead tried to force our product into a already crowded market?" Elon Musk, Tech genius

He's gunna be gutted when he finds out xvideos is already taken.

Lol, twitter was brilliant when it was 144 character text messages. Then it got ruined by adding photos. Now it is going the rest of the way down the tubes by becoming becoming video first. Ugh.

New X url is now xvideos, the sites never been better imo.

Of course let's take a platform that barely holds itself together to show just text and let's pivot it to be the most technical demanding and expensive kind of service. It will work fine, I'm sure.

The only thing worse than its video player are the literal nazis on the site, has he tried watching video there? To call it dogshit would be an insult to dogshit, which can presumably be useful as fertilizer.

I thought Xitter was going to be a bank! Honestly, who can follow the mentally-ill, cocaine-fueled ramblings of this man-baby?

The microblogging platform that once limited posts to 140 characters is now a "video-first" platform?

How Elon deals with advertising complaints: "Go advertise someplace else."

Advertisers:

It's an interesting claim.

I don't think I've ever seen a platform struggle more with video than Twitter. Everything looks like it's using RealPlayer. It's the only platform where the Japanese wouldn't have to censor their porn before uploading.

I can't wait for X to transition finally into "no longer existing"

Lmao, he doesn't have the bandwidth capacity to handle videos

I never, ever see any actual ads anymore. It's either some dude with an Indian dude smiling saying "Hello!" or the same exact ass picture from "Hailey201238712985723" or "Jonah9018328412873" advertising the same porn site. No advertiser worth their salt would ever advertise on Elon's Twitter.

Buffoon

I haven't been keeping up with the changes to X but I checked out their videos site (xvideos, I presume) and it seems like it's mostly porn with the occasional Tesla shareholder meeting keynote.

The keynotes seem a bit incongruous and I could do without them. Otherwise, it doesn't seem like it's gone too far downhill.

Meta already did the "pivot to video" scam. I doubt most media outlets are going to fall for it again.

Has anyone made any piece of technology that could block Elon Musk news? I understand he is currently ruining the world at full speed, but for fuck's sake, some of us don't think this is tech news worthy and it's frankly annoying. He makes it to every paper, then to every news forum. Yuck. Enough Musk spam... you are only doing him favors, even when the news is bad. There is no such thing as bad publicity.

I think next week it should be a nazi dating site.

The only videos that show up on my Twitter are literal war crimes, gore, NFSW, NFSL… I’m sure being LiveLeak Jr is doing great things for bringing advertisers back.

Xitter is running out of feet to shoot itself in.

I haven't visit twitter/X for a while. A "video-first platform" typically supports live streams, captions/subtitles and 4k videos. Does X supports these?

Twitter videos don’t even load half the time on mobile browsers.

I claim that I am now a millionaire.

Doesn’t make it true though…

With this guy, I can only assume he's saying so because video ads generate more profit.

Twitter has no skin in the video serving game and they have no USP there (aside from famously allowing porn). When he realizes the folly of his actions, he'll do another U-turn like the many he's done since purchasing Twitter.

I didn't know this guy's character before he bought Twitter but am now fully convinced he's but a charlatan who's always trying to seek the popular 'vote' as a billionaire.

"X" the thing you click to close videos you don't like or are done with.

Do it. I haven't seen this play out in the recent past, and I'm sure moving from text content to video content to chase advertising has never gone wrong for anyone ever.

If he built X.com as a video sharing site to rival YouTube instead of rebranding Twitter and turning it into a Nazi bar, I think people would have a more favourable view of him.

Musk can have good ideas but he's being blinded by his own hubris.