Six months ago NPR left X. The effects have been negligible — X wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic::Covering thought leadership in journalism

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Why should I call it that when calling it X devalues the company?

      The Twitter brand was the most valuable part of the business. If Elon wants to shoot himself in the nuts, I’m not going to stop him.

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        I prefer “X/Twitter/Whatever” for that same reason. Making it a confusing mess means “X” can never really be a valuable brand imo

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    NPR doesn’t produce inflammatory, biased news and clickbait headlines, so this is not surprising in the least.

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    I had a really old Twitter account going back to 2009, maybe 2008. I don’t even remember. Back then it was great for connecting with friends, making plans, meeting new people, etc. I hadn’t done anything meaningful with it in years so I logged in to see if it was really as bad as everyone was claiming.

    Narrator: It was.

    Within a month I was simultaneously a fascist, an anarchist, a bootlicker, a socialist, and a troll. I think I had posted a picture of a cup of coffee and maybe my cat.

    Deleted, moved on with life.

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    They didn’t leave X six months ago, they left Twitter six months ago. The rebrand did not start until July.