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X Announces It’s Shutting Down ‘Circles’ As of October 31st (www.socialmediatoday.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

STOP CALLING IT X. JUST CALL IT TWITTER.COM

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

fr! I'll start calling it "X" when he calls his daughter Vivian

[+] [email protected] -15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You do realize that X is now it’s official name right? Elon changed the name to X and deprecated the twitter name. At the end of the domain registration, he is not going to re-register twitter.com as the domain name, and because he owns the trademark on it, he is going to sue anyone who tries to re-use the domain name.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't care. I'm still going to dead name the bird site.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dropped it when trump was spewing his bs on it. My feed was 90% Trump bs and re-posts. I actively dumped fb, twitter and a few others back in 2019 and My life has been so much better since then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's 100% on you, nobody made you follow those accounts. My TL had 0 trump shit because I don't follow people who tweeted politics.

My job made constant exposure to the news unavoidable so Twitter was where I went to avoid it. So many funny people making original jokes. I made a lot of new friends through it that I still see today

I stand by that Twitter was a great platform if you thought about how you used it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I genuinely could not care less.

I’m going to keep deadnaming his company for as long as Elon keeps deadnaming his daughter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nothing wrong with that. When I see a re-post from X/twitter, or whatever he wants to name it in the future, I happily scroll right by it.

I say let him go bankrupt trying to save it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope he realizes that's not how it works. Companies own domains they don't use for this exact reason. Hell, most major companies own hundreds of misspelled versions of their domains across many TLDs for user safety.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like he cares. He bought it for money and political reasons. And now, because of piss poor decisions, the company has been devalued from $44 billion it is now only worth about $4 billion. What makes it so sad is a lot of online companies are following suit thinking they can do what he couldn’t.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

He bought it because he made a joke that then became legally binding.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just requires whoever picks it up be in a country that doesn't respect US IP law.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully that means we cab finally stop giving that shit website any attention.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well he is helping it along with the latest talking point that he is going to make X a subscription only platform, aka you must pay to play.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remove 'Circles' from the title anf it vecomes far more interesting

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, no. This is how we get misleading clickbait titles.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I didn't know such feature even existed

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Circles? Like from Google+?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Circles, the thing I hit accidentally when blocking a corporate account

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Given Elon is a transphobic POS, I'll gladly remain deadnaming his shitty website

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)