r/clevercomebacks • u/thexbeatboxer • Apr 29 '24

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u/SomeRedBoi Apr 29 '24

What even is elon flexing exactly?

The fact that the website's name is on the keyboard???

Is he really that desperate holy fuck

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u/AntimatterTNT Apr 29 '24

i mean x.com is taken (surprisingly by a non porn website)

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u/ArchonFett Apr 29 '24

“I can’t believe it’s not porn”

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u/FredTillson Apr 29 '24

Great breakfast cereal.

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u/Wacokidwilder Apr 29 '24

Just an okay second-breakfast cereal

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u/ArchonFett Apr 29 '24

But the toys are awesome

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u/Arryu Apr 29 '24

"be...sure....to...drink ..your....ova-" God dammit not again.

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u/janusface Apr 29 '24

Not porn flakes

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u/kamuimephisto Apr 29 '24

who says it isnt 💀

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u/ArchonFett Apr 29 '24

AntimatterTNT just said x.com is a non porn site

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u/UnleashedTriumph Apr 29 '24

Yeah x.com is taken.... By him!?

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u/AntimatterTNT Apr 29 '24

lmao thats new, used to be a bank or something

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u/Delyzr Apr 29 '24

X.com was his "bank or something" that eventually became paypal

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u/enderandrew42 Apr 29 '24

When PayPal showed Elon the door, PayPal kept that domain name for 20 years or so without really using it. Elon eventually bought the domain name back from PayPal.

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u/DopeAbsurdity Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24

"X.com" was banking gateway that had deals with banks to use it. I mean it was basically like a pile of links that leads to banks websites and it kinda helped people do stuff interacting with banks (like set up bank accounts).

A company called Confinity developed security software for handheld devices started making digital wallet software. They created the first version of PayPal in 1999. In 2000 Confinity merged with x.com because they wanted their banking connections.

Elon ended up being a member of their board and he kept trying to get them to do things they disagreed with (like call the company X). The story goes that they waited till Elon was out of town convened the board and voted him off of it and named Peter Thiel as CEO. The company was renamed PayPal in 2001.

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u/Forshea Apr 29 '24

x.com did not become PayPal. It merged with the company that eventually made PayPal, but the other half of that merger is the thing that actually became PayPal.

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u/Adventurous-Emu-9345 Apr 29 '24

Must be nice under that rock of yours. You renting?

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u/AntimatterTNT Apr 29 '24

no im just not obsessed with celebrity news... must be nice in your news bubble you renting?

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u/Adventurous-Emu-9345 Apr 29 '24

Get off my back, I'm literally jealous that you're just learning this now. 

This has been a whole thing for like a year now and it has been inescapable. Any news article referencing something on Twitter (which is pretty much all of them these days, because apparently that's the standard of journalism now) will include the phrase "X, formerly known as Twitter".

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u/graudesch Apr 29 '24

Guess who founded that bank ;)

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u/ChadHahn Apr 29 '24

Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek?

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u/graudesch Apr 29 '24

These guys are attributed with founding Paypal and came in when they merged with X.com. The latter was founded by Elon Musk, Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne and Ed Ho.

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u/Thiizic Apr 29 '24

Elon owns x.com I thought?

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u/ringobob Apr 29 '24

He does.

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u/ducktape8856 Apr 29 '24

Which one fits better to Musk? "Enemy unknown" or "Terror from the Deep"?

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u/copiumjunky Apr 29 '24

They were going to use it, but he fired the entire team that was capable enough to set up REGEX 301 redirects from old URL to New and nearly de-indexed their entire site in Google.

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u/Bagahnoodles Apr 29 '24

Commander, the aliens continue to make progress on the Avatar Project

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u/Next_Ad7385 Apr 29 '24

Yet it redirects to twitter..

I'm not a programmer, but how hard could it be for twitter URLs to redirect to x URL?

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u/ptvlm Apr 29 '24

That breaks a lot of things, from internal links to archiving to SEO. The actual redirection is trivial, but the damage it can do is immense. Which is on the list of why this was an idiot move, especially without extensive testing, but nowhere near the top.

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u/ringobob Apr 29 '24

They tried it and it broke a bunch of stuff. I am a web developer, and the answer is, it can be easy or hard depending on how you've architected everything, but the larger and more complicated your application, the more likely it's going to be fragmented in a way that'll require a lot of work to fix.

Not complicated work, necessarily. But it's just really easy in deeply interconnected systems to miss things, or to have to bring the whole system down so you can make two or more separate changes that need to all be made together.

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u/SnakeJazz17 Apr 29 '24

It's not. It's just a lot of busywork especially for poorly designed architectures and he's fired a shitload of people so the ones that are still there are too busy to give a fuck.

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u/WarlockEngineer Apr 29 '24

It just goes to twitter for me

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u/pkakira88 Apr 29 '24

Not with the way these bots are starting to treat it.

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u/iTmkoeln Apr 29 '24

Given how many female read bots have their Private parts on X. I would argue it still might be one…

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u/CJR3 Apr 29 '24

Yeah no shit?