X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is facing 2,200 arbitration cases that ex-employees filed after Elon Musk took over the company, slashed headcount, and made other sweeping changes there. The filing fees alone for that volume of cases could amount to $3.5 million.
The arbitration numbers were revealed in a new filing out Monday as part of a lawsuit in a Delaware district court. The case is Chris Woodfield v. Twitter, X Corp. and Elon Musk (No. 1:23-cv-780-CFC).
As CNBC has previously reported, many large corporations require workers to sign an arbitration agreement upon employment wherever it is legal to do so. This means to speak freely in court, where their speech can become part of a public record, workers would first need to get an exemption from a judge.
I get a kick out of every time a journalist feels they need to specify “formerly known as Twitter” because X is such a generic, indistinguishable brand.
I think it would be better to say “Twitter, currently branded as X” it is both useful and makes it look like it is just a cringy phase a teenager might go through temporarily. So you should just ignore the change and it will eventually resolve itself.
The x.com URL just points at Twitter.com
Both engineers are working on it.
I continue to use “twitter” because Musk is a transphobe. If he feels obligated to deadname or misgender people, or defend those who do, I don’t see the need to follow what he wants to identify as, either.
So if Musk were to immediately stop deadnaming trans people, would you immediately stop “deadnaming” Twitter?
If Elmo owned up to and apologized for his transphobia, resolving not to do that kind of thing again in the future, I would be more than happy to call his microblogging service whatever he ends up deciding to name it. I’m not sure this is going to be enough to convince him, but go ahead and forward that along if you think it will help.
Might as well just call it Twitter. The only people that go along with calling it “X” are chuds and Musk sycophants.
and Musk sycophants
You already said chuds
All these venn diagrams make a circle.
What a fantastic insult (I didn’t mean that as sarcasm, I think it’s hilarious).
It is Twitter, and I’ll be Twitter until it’s shutdown. Only morons who are into crypto ponzi schemes call it X unironically, expecting Elon to be their friend somehow
Xitter is a good compromise, and almost onomatopoeic.
Like or hate Elon, I hope everyone can agree the name change is incredibly stupid. X… X what? X me later. Did you see that X?.. Uh huh.
X gonna give it to ya.
There are a lot of jokes to be made about Twitter referencing the disasterpiece movie “Foodfight!” and its villains fighting for “Brand X”.
Musk is killing it!
(“it” being whatever shred of reputation he had left before the last year or so)
Oh he’s been burning that reputation for a good while. I feel like when he tried to send a useless sub and called some guy a pedo was probably the largest turning point for many. Since that point he’s been less and less heralded as he was before hand.
I think that’s when I predicted he’d either be a Lex Luthor or a Tony Stark.
Turns out I was wrong on both accounts though. He’s just a shit for brains, emerald spooned jerk.
Little bit more legality/politics than technology no?
Yes, but it’s about a major tech company, so maybe it fits? NBC filed it in their ‘Tech News’ section.
Musk isn’t going to give you the time of day. You don’t need to defend his website/app.
It’s a social media company, not a tech company.
Unless you have a magic list of technology the company is releasing.I don’t see what else one would call their own algorithms and media delivery systems.
Does Twitter make the content or do they serve content via webservers and applications? Sounds like technology to me.
Do buses pick you up at the corner or do you get on the bus? Sounds like technology to me.
A bus is an automobile.
Twitter is a website.Twitter is a website, and a website is technology lmao
Every tool humanity has ever created is technology
Starting with hammers, axes, arrows, the wheel etcThat you are correct:
Technology is the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life or, as it is sometimes phrased, to the change and manipulation of the human environment.
According to Britannica.
They released Twitter Bootstrap a while ago for “HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface components and interactions”, to this day, it is hard going to a website that doesn’t integrate in some way it at least once a day. The source code for lemmy.world’s CSS says it is using Bootstrap for example:
“wow”
I think that’s just more of a rollover from anything on the internet being labeled as ‘tech’, but like nowadays if the president sends a tweet its really not that notable of news, technologically. We could also start reporting every time a text is sent if we really wanted
You could’ve just downvoted and moved on 🙄
Same to you lol
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Just more of the same Luddite shit, unfortunately. Seems nobody loves technology more than people who really fucking hate technology.
