• Rufus Q. Bodine III
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    10 months ago

    #ElonMuskisaTraitor The way things are going, pretty soon we’ll be able to start a #GoFundMe to buy #Twitter and put a #Mastodon instance on its domain.

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          1710 months ago

          Doubtful they will just give up the domain

          He doesn’t have to give it up. He just has to pay his domain fees like he pays his employees, his rent, his utilities, his taxes, his arbitration fees, his mounting judgements, etc. Give it a hot minute, twitter.com will be available soon enough.

          I mean, yeah, normally an employee or group of employees is usually tasked with domain maintenance and renewal, but at Xitter, Inc. these days . . . that’s not really the durable fix it is for other companies that do not have Elon Musk as their head.

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          810 months ago

          People honestly doubted that he would give up the branding. With how much he’s cast it aside. Why in the long run would he keep the domain? It’s just a reminder of what he’s thrown away. What strategic value does it hold at this point?

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            10 months ago

            The value is obviously to stop people from using it. Even if Elon doesn’t want to use it, doesn’t mean it would make sense to just give up the domain to someone. People still associate it with X so it would hurt the value of X if someone used it to host a twitter alternative like a masto instance.

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              010 months ago

              He could sell it to a shell company that could redirect it to pornhub… that ought to make the trick and stop all media from still referring to 𝕏 as “Twitter”, without the risk of someone using it to compete with 𝕏.

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            210 months ago

            Main issue with a domain like that, is there are links to it everywhere. Very exploitable. Most of which Musk might not care about, but it would be a way of getting a lot of people’s login information.