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Twitter is back, and it’s worse than you think

conservativereview.com · 12dShare

Twitter’s back! Sort of. After Elon Musk rebranded the "global town square" of social media to X.com, another company swooped in to pick up the old name, claiming that Musk abandoned the brand. So far, a Trump-appointed judge has even agreed to the hostile takeover, but the story is a little more complicated. Now Elon’s fighting back, the new Twitter might be ashes again, and a final verdict of the once-legendary Twitter name now hangs in the balance of an upcoming court case. Shortly after Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022 , he made it clear that he had no interest in maintaining the brand or the bird that rocketed the social network to political prominence. He would keep the foundation of the app in place, but otherwise, it would take on the “X” moniker that adorns many of Musk’s entrepreneurial endeavors, including SpaceX, the Tesla Model X, and xAI. The new Twitter hasn’t changed from the old Twitter at all. With a new badge, a new color scheme, and a new attitude to defend the ri

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