sunshine702

Some things I've noticed - the fight between Vox and Anglin is ridiculous and taking over there - just at the time a flood of new people joined after founder was on Tucker Carlsin's show. And 2- you noticed the mainstream media covered him the very next day after he agreed to take down Anglin's fat joke. While free speech I think the powers that be know he can be controlled. My 2 cents

Conspirologist

TPTB control everything, therefore anybody can be controlled, or eliminated by any means.

When forced choosing between losing life vs accepting money, anybody will choose money.

senpaithatignoresyou

And now the first questions about social media start to hit.

Ever wonder why micorsoft, google, att, Cisco, or any of the giant tech companies never jumped on the twitter bandwagon? It's because it is not profitable.

That is why cheap amateurs are getting involved, it is not profitable for the bigger companies. It probably is not profitable for the amateurs.

Which begs a giant question: what the hell has been keeping twitter afloat? Government money.

Twitter has been the liberal flagship for tech, a means to alienate the normal people by making them feel obsolete. Only twitter does not make a profit, and the politicians that kept it afloat for propaganda reasons are now out of office.

sunshine702

Saudi Arabia and Quatar also bought in years ago - that's why banning people that criticize Islam.

scoopadoop

to be fair, the owner is an amateur. right now the site looks like crap because it is crap. the guy is even still getting bullied by google so he can't even maintain full free speech yet. I say give it time.

Conspirologist

OK. But what about the brand name? Why it sucks so much like it was made deliberately?

PhilaFerret

By saying Gabber is a correct name, does that mean it should sound more similar to Twitter? Freedome implies a lid, which sounds like the opposite of being free. Help me to follow your sense of marketing.

Conspirologist

I didn't say Gabber is an appealing name for promoting free speech activism, because it implies idle or trivial talk, therefore the low IQ of users. I only said that at least is more cool and creative that just gab. Gabber is a fit name for sheeple user base like Facebook.

Twitter is a clever name, because it implies the freedom of speech symbolized by a tweeting bird. Freedome is paronomasia made by freedom and dome. In the middle of censorship info war, users freedom is protected by dome, freedom + dome = Freedome. It's not hard to get.

PhilaFerret

You said, "You don't have to be a rocket scientist to name it at least correctly "Gabber", or something even more appealing." So, I was correct to infer you meant Gabber is more correct.

Twitter was chosen because it's insinuates a hot topic; it's "atwitter." The bird icon and "tweeting" complimented the term.

Ending anything with an insult does nothing but make the author feel better about himself and always backfires, especially when the author is attempting intellectual superiority with a pedantic cliche.

Conspirologist

Twitter means simply twitter. You are overemotional and making stuff up. Have you ever been diagnosed with psychological disbalance, like psychosis by any chance?

PhilaFerret

You're driving me toward it!! (Haha)

Dorsey has explained the origin of the "Twitter" title:

...we came across the word 'twitter', and it was just perfect. The definition was 'a short burst of inconsequential information,' and 'chirps from birds'. And that's exactly what the product was.[24]

Conspirologist

Dorsey is a moron. I invented the Twitter brand. Allow me to know better how this happened and why.

PhilaFerret

Please forward all future replies to my therapist.