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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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539 points donohoe | 2 comments | 09 Jul 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.425s | source
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Hoasi ◴[09 Jul 25 15:21 UTC] No.44511157[source]▶
X has been nothing short of an exercise in brand destruction. However, despite all the drama, it still stands, it still exists, and it remains relevant.
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mrweasel ◴[09 Jul 25 16:05 UTC] No.44511712[source]▶
More and more I think Musk managed to his take over of Twitter pretty successfully. X still isn't as strong a brand as Twitter where, but it's doing okay. A lot of the users who X need to stay on the platform, journalists and politicians, are still there.

The only issue is that Musk vastly overpaid for Twitter, but if he plans to keep it and use it for his political ambitions, that might not matter. Also remember that while many agree that $44B was a bit much, most did still put Twitter at 10s of billions, not the $500M I think you could justify.

The firings, which was going to tank Twitter also turned out reasonably well. Turns out they didn't need all those people.

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throw310822 ◴[09 Jul 25 17:47 UTC] No.44512898[source]▶
And btw, how many features have been brought live since Musk's takeover? If I'm not wrong, at least: long tweets, paid subscriptions, community notes, native video (?), grok... Anything else? Seems quite a lot after years of stagnation.
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ceejayoz ◴[09 Jul 25 19:23 UTC] No.44513870[source]▶
Long tweets: 2017 (https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/07/twitter-officially-expands...)

Subscriptions: 2021 (https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-launches-subscrip...)

Community Notes: 2021 (https://blog.x.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introducing-bir...)

Native video: 2012-2015 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service) / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periscope_(service) / https://www.videonuze.com/article/twitter-unveils-30-second-...)

Musk buys Twitter: late 2022.

That leaves… Grok.

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sunaookami ◴[09 Jul 25 20:00 UTC] No.44514201[source]▶
Chronological feed by default with a setting that actually sticks, private favorites, new media gallery, "E2E" messages.

(side note: Birdwatch was a way better name than Community Notes)

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1. ceejayoz ◴[09 Jul 25 20:11 UTC] No.44514290[source]▶
> Chronological feed by default with a setting that actually sticks…

Musk killed third-party clients, which all had that already.

> private favorites

To conceal the plunge in activity post-acquisition, and to soothe the owner. https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-boosted-elon-musk-tw...

> new media gallery

We're not really calling a bit of a redesign "innovation", are we?

> "E2E" messages

Anything using Twitter for this in a scenario where said encryption is important is a loon, IMO. That's what Signal is for.

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2. sunaookami ◴[10 Jul 25 04:28 UTC] No.44517168[source]▶
>Musk killed third-party clients, which all had that already.

Irrelevant for the point but yes, API changes and killing TweetDeck was a shit move.

>To conceal the plunge in activity post-acquisition, and to soothe the owner

I don't care about your opinion on that, for me it's great and made me like more posts. I don't engage in politics on Twitter.

>We're not really calling a bit of a redesign "innovation", are we?

We are listing changes. Seems like you are just biased against Musk instead of engaging in a discussion.

>Anything using Twitter for this in a scenario where said encryption is important is a loon, IMO. That's what Signal is for.

Agreed but it's a new feature.