I will continue calling them Twitter threads, since the domain is still twitter[dot]com.

Yeah, it still needs to be called twitter, even if it makes you seem out of the loop.

To be fair it was a great name for a windowing system.

Where else would they put it to reach more people?

Somewhere that doesn't require people to sign up.

He also made a YouTube video on this

https://youtu.be/dk8pwE3IByg

Why does it have to reach lots of people? Does it reach lots of people?

If you have an opinion about Science, maybe “10 massively under reported things about science you need to click on now” is more about clickbait and driving people to your YouTube channel than actual science? The last tweet in this thread is literally a link off to some YouTube thing to earn those sweet sweet ad $$$.

Does 20000 likes on Twitter mean people are listening to you?

… or just self satisfaction from being upvotes by bots?

Since posting on X now actively excludes real people (Ie. Anyone not logged in), it seems kind of stupid as a place to post science news these days?

Even if it does reach a wider audience, do they care, and act, or just <3 and move on?

It’s just easy and lazy to post to X.

I find it hard to take people selling their shit on X seriously.

It is 100% nothing to do with science.

You don't have to call it X.

I'm a bit out of the loop here, but is the letter "X" a part of Elon's company branding? Since that's not the first time he used the letter "X" in that manner.

The single letter "X" is brimming with symbolism and implications. Without further explanation we may never know why the rebranding was necessary.

He made his fortune with x.com. That was the online bank he founded then merged with Confinity to become PayPal in 2000, and it was the PayPal IPO that allowed him to invest in Tesla and SpaceX. He's fond enough of his old company name that he bought the domain back years ago, and is now repurposing it.

Thank you for the thorough explanation! For the longest time I thought he was a founder of Tesla and Space.

The rebranding was neccessary because Larry & Sergey got their ABC and Zuck went Meta. It's just a d**-measuring contest.

He's a bit fixated on that letter.

X.com (banking company that eventually became Paypal)

SpaceX

Tesla models S 3 X Y

Baby born in May of 2020: X Æ A-12 ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52557291 https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/202... )

I’ll call it Xitter.

The X is pronounced with the SH sound.

Or it could be Albanian.