• sixtyshilling@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    This is a technology community, and (whether you like it or not) Twitter being rebranded to X is pretty big news in the world of tech.

    Especially with the slipshod way they are doing with it, there is bound to be a lot of articles covering different weird tangential effects from the rush job.

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      2 years ago

      twitter isn’t relevant in technological development, it’s just a toxic social media site which hasn’t changed in any significant way since its inception (technologically speaking)

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        I agree with you that no one in the tech world is looking at Twitter for advice atm, but to say nothing changed at Twitter in any significant way since it’s inception is disingenuous at best. Twitter’s rapid growth and adoption led to the development of a number of key technologies needed to run global 24/7 uptime services at scale, just to name one macro example.

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      2 years ago

      I agree. I don’t use Twitter and I really don’t know much about Elon, but when one of the wealthiest people in the world is doing something with a major tech company, Id like to be somewhat informed

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      No, a rebrand is not a true technological news. It is regular news. Same would apply if Pizza company changed it’s name. Internal policy changes of a website are not technological news either. Appointing a new director or firing staff, is still are not technological. Sure they its news, but have nothing to do with technology.

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      That is not Tech news that is business news.

      What technology was developed, explored, integrated, improved, or otherwise innovated or more broadly applied by this?

      Nothing, it does nothing, it’s a branding decision, business news, not tech news.

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        2 years ago

        Curious, those criteria you listed out are not present anywhere I can see in the community rules.

        Perhaps you should petition the mods to change them if you feel so strongly about it.

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        What technology was developed, explored, integrated, improved, or otherwise innovated or more broadly applied by this?

        This is an interesting standard to apply and I’m curious to see how many posts would actually fit that, especially posts which seem to be about tech. Arguably, 30-60% of the top posts right now don’t meet this.