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  • Vinny@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It took me a hot minute to realise that they were talking about Twitter, lmao.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been wondering when pages would drop the “formerly Twitter” clarifier.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it kind of looks like the author of the article forgot to fill in their placeholder during proofreading.

      HBO destroyed their brand with “Max”, and Elon was like “hold my beer, I’ll make the single dumbest and most confusing brand decision in the history of business.”