It's Not X!

 Imagine this for a second... 

"Hey look at this really interesting tweet I saw the other day."

"Oh woah that's really neat, you'll have to send that to me!"

Ok now imagine this...

"Hey look at this really interesting X I saw the other day."

"Huh? What the heck is an X?"

If you're anything like me, you've been asking yourself this same question. WHAT the heck is an X, and WHY?! Personally, I loved Twitter, it was entertaining while also very informational. Any news you may need could be found there, along with anything else under the sun. Twitter was funny! People posted funny tweets, sometimes even bashing other brands and then the brand would fire back and it was great. Twitter was a safe space, and if someone violated that then their account got banned and it went back to being the safe space we all know and love. Until one day in 2022 when someone had to go and ruin it. 

Before I talk about the downfall of Twitter to X, let's reminisce on the good times first. Twitter was started in 2006, when a man named Jack Dorsey wanted to create a short messaging service, similar to texting. The original idea was that friends could essentially keep track of each other by posting status updates, with a minimum of 140 characters to keep it short and sweet. Just six years after its launch, the site grew to over 185 million users. For the next ten years, Twitter flourished. Quickly moving its way up the social media ladder, catching up to Facebook and Instagram. Things were going great. Until one fateful day in 2022. 

In 2022, billionaire Elon Musk purchased twitter for $44 billion. Must is a free speech advocate (insert eye roll here) who decided that all of those accounts that were banned for very good reasons, he was just going to put those back up. Along with allowing toxic accounts to be on Twitter again, Musk also laid off thousands of employees and decided to make some previously free aspects of the app now have to be paid for. Since the takeover of Twitter by Musk, the site has lost over $2 billion in advertisements. Musk continued to make mistakes until finally he couldn't handle the criticism anymore, so he stepped down and made Linda Yaccarino the new executive. Next came the final straw for a lot of Twitter users, the name change. The rebranding of Twitter to X caused a lot of loyal users to rethink their commitment to this site. 

Personally, once the cute little blue Twitter bird turned to a big black X, the app was deleted from my phone and I haven't downloaded it since. X is not the same safe space that Twitter was, with all of the banned accounts coming back and other toxic features, it is just not the same as it once was, and it is something that a lot of people will no longer support.