<story><title>Changing its name tanked X&apos;s downloads in App Store and Play Store</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/08/19/seufert-x-downloads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bashtoni</author><text>You have wonder if the plan was to buy Twitter specifically to kill it.&lt;p&gt;If that&amp;#x27;s the case, Musk is doing brilliantly - plenty of scope for plausible deniability while succeeding at his goal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atleastoptimal</author><text>0% chance he&amp;#x27;s doing that but it&amp;#x27;s funny to think that he is.&lt;p&gt;Obviously he really does want it to be an everything app. Musk is very transparent about his ambitions and feelings. He&amp;#x27;s not someone to bear holding a secret, he&amp;#x27;d want to share it so he could get the validation from telling people about his plans and his followers will act like he&amp;#x27;s already succeeded.</text></comment>
<story><title>Changing its name tanked X&apos;s downloads in App Store and Play Store</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/08/19/seufert-x-downloads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bashtoni</author><text>You have wonder if the plan was to buy Twitter specifically to kill it.&lt;p&gt;If that&amp;#x27;s the case, Musk is doing brilliantly - plenty of scope for plausible deniability while succeeding at his goal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nitwit005</author><text>He&amp;#x27;s been so busy with Twitter that he&amp;#x27;s being sued for not running Tesla. That&amp;#x27;s a lot of effort just to shut a company down.</text></comment>