Such a genuinely shit name.
I’m not even one of the rabid Musk haters, but it’s just an absolutely dreadful name that a 10 year old thinks is cool…
I fully expect people to still be calling it twitter for a long time.
I call it “irrelevant.”
I wish…
I may…
That’s because it’s an established brand with a huge value to it. Everyone knows twitter. Only an idiot would throw that away.
Musk has been on a roll of bad decisions since he first offered to buy Twitter lmao
He was making terrible decisions way before that.
Yes but Twitter is a 44 billion dollar mistake
You make a very good and very expensive point.
I call meta still facebook. fuck this rebranding bullshit to disssociate with shittyness
Meta/Facebook and Google/Alphabet are very different from Twitter/X. The first two created parent companies under which their large brand names still exist, but are now managed along with their other properties (Instagram,
Snapchat, Waymo, Deepmind, etc.) Musk, meanwhile, is trying to completely burn down the Twitter brand for some incomprehensible reason.Snapchat isn’t owned by meta btw
Yeah just like Meta will allways be Facebook for me
I bet you all next he will rebrand some of his other companies as ‘S’ (SpaceX?) and ‘E’ (??) just to be CEO of SEX. This man is so extremely childish.
He already has done it for Tesla models: S, 3, X, Y
This is perfect
You just nailed Elons personality.
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“We’re expect folks will go along and stop referring to ‘tweeting’ and go with the more brand appropriate term of ‘x-creting’ from now on.” Musk said before adding, "‘X-cretions’ and ‘x-creted’ are encouraged too.
The fact that I don’t know if this is real or a joke tells you how ridiculous Musk has become.
idk if you came up with this but I expect to see this joke a bunch more in the coming days lol
I can’t imagine that others haven’t had the same thought, but I had not seen anything previously. It’s low hanging fruit, but you take what you can get!
Does that make the people on X x-crements?
I mean…
Why not just go ahead and call it X-crement?
You’ll remember that name, because the moment the site appears, you’ll click the little X on the top right corner of your computer screen to get rid of it.
I took it for a spin.
- x.com
- Do you want to sign in with Google? -> press X
- Sign in on Twitter -> press X
- 404 page not found -> press X on tab
It’s anything but inconsistent.
This is why executives shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions
It’s called X now.… proceeds to prompt “log in to twitter”.
This is becoming a branding shit show.
Musk doesn’t seem to understand the concept of a developmental environment prior to a production launch.
TDD: Tantrum Driven Development
It’s ok, at least it’s just a website. Would be different if he was designing something like… oh idk… a car that people trust with their lives to drive itself. Or even a massive rocket carrying astronauts and valuable cargo.
Don’t think musk designs the rockets that much, from what I’ve heard musk is basically just the figurehead
Musk doesn’t seem to understand
And the tweet button is still right there in blue.
Maybe he’s hoping that when people click X to close the ads, he’ll get paid.
Do the “twitter videos” become “x videos” now?
They suspended xvideos.com’s account and the rumor is they are considering calling the videos on their platform xvideos… I REALLY REALLY want this to happen.
I want to see the ensuing trademark lawsuit from the owners of xvideo.com
Don’t bet on it. Twitter doesn’t have to host anyone it doesn’t want. TOS and all that.
They don’t have to host them but they can’t infringe on their name.
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Guess it’s a moot point because as far as I know they didn’t end up using that name for their videos.
I’m at work, so will have to check later, but I’m really hoping this isn’t true.
Going to be some still competition for that trademark
Search results are gonna be buggered six ways from Sunday
Brilliant move by Musk. ‘X’ has long been identified as the universal symbol for closing out of an application. Hopefully with this move even more people will permanently close out of Twitter and move on so I don’t have to read so many dumb news stories where the lazy journalist uses a few random tweets as their “source” for the headline.
Let’s also not forget it’s adult connotations, things are rated “X” for a reason 😅
Can’t wait till Premium X membership is known as “XXX Members”.
Then Elon’s handle changes to “Professor”
Also, if anybody here has seen Foodfight!, maybe I’m not the only one who thinks of Brand X
Brand X has been associated with generic off-brand for a long long time.
Yes, but I’m talking about a very specific Brand X.
That’s hilarious. And hopefully!
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So let me get this straight. Musk bought Twitter for 44 billion, fired most of the staff, destroyed bunch of features and functionality, scared advertisers away and now changed the brand’s name. Wouldn’t it be less hassle to just start a platform and pay people $100 each as a sign up bonus?
That’s absurd! Assuming 4 billion in actual startup costs, at the purchase price they could only afford to do that for…
four hundred million people. LOL.
Jesus this was a dumb transaction.
Just for perspective, the U.S. population is 300 million. Add on the 67 million population of the UK and you still have plenty of change left over.
Jesus, this was a stupid decision.
Yup. Four hundred million is more than the entire daily userbase of twitter.
Damn, this comment thread was a level of enlightenment I was not expecting this morning 🤯
There are currently ~366 million Twitter users.
If Musk paid each person $100 to start using “X” instead, he’d spend $36.6 billion, leaving him with $7.4 billion to actually build the rest of the website and infrastructure.
Yup, he’s stupid.
He could also pay his rent and other bills.
Copying my comment from another thread:
But they’re not just re-branding. Twitter is now under some kind of corporate shell company. I haven’t seen much coverage of that, but my suspicion is that it’s intended to act as some kind of insulator to contain Twitter’s debts.
Like when they break a company into pieces and put everyone’s debts and no assets into a single part and then that part declares bankruptcy and all the debt magically goes away, leaving everything else with lots of assets and no debts and a future that looks really rosy. I can’t help but think that this is something similar to that.
My contribution to this new logo.
I sure everyone will steal this and posted it on X as if they thought of it.
I’m sure it’s not a unique idea. Lots of really smart and clever people think like me after all :D
Funnily enough I saw this exact images on multiple places outside of Lemmy, including on Twitter.
Even with the tongue… or just the bid and X cause I’ve seen hundreds of the bird with X eye but not any other ones with the tongue sticking out.
All of this is just noise designed to keep us talking about the site. You could call it bad advertising. We should stop feeding the troll.
Or worse a distraction for what really is going on. All this nonsense and he even had a hand with reddit CEO’s decisions. I think he is trolling the left to hide what the right is doing behind the scenes for the upcoming election next year.
I honestly think he’s purposefully trying to kill Twitter. It’s a tool people use for things from boycotting and unionizing to full on revolution. Things rich people and their friends don’t like.
Even if this isn’t the intention of Musk himself, I certainly think this is what some of his investors (Thiel and the Saudis) are hoping for.
he stated multiple times, that he wants to create an all-inclusive app that mixes messaging with shopping, payment, etc in the style of wechat.
And he always wanted to rebrand it to X, as he owns the x.com domain since the 90s.
Nothing about it is surprising, doesn’t make it less shit, tho
Is he though because Thiel is just fucking buying politicians and not saying shit and that seems to work better
Hahaha. Wow is this ever stupid. And getting stupider by the second.
Go to twitter.com, it goes “X” and then “Sign in to Twitter”.
You missed a spot there Elon. You know what we industry professionals do - it’s called a “design process”. You:
- Mock up the way you want it to look
- Make it look that way
- Then you push it live.
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Oh yeah there’s no way there’s a dev build or test platform anymore.
You need devs and testers to have dev and test platforms. Elon fired them all because he’s smarter than they are, so they weren’t needed.
You can see the genius entrepreneur at play. Why waste money scrubbing the site from former branding when you can do 90% of the rebranding by changing the logo and background color. Everyone knows that the last 10% is like 90% of doing it right budget. Massive savings right there.
Seriously. How fucking dumb are the people running Twitter?
Hey I got a good idea, let’s destroy the goodwill and globally recognized brand identity that I own for no real reason…
They haven’t even secured x on some big TLDs, their design process is not the only issue.
what a fucking moron
This is important because the thing everyone hated about Twitter was definitely the logo. Should have done this much sooner. High priority stuff.
No idea how people are still buying and riding in this guy’s cars after seeing how badly he runs a website.
Badly is a vast understatement. There isn’t a word that describes blowing 44 billion. Maybe 1 Musk can be a new unit of idiocy.
“Damn it, Jim! You just lost the company 100.000 dollars!”
“How big of a failure are we talking about here?”
“It’s about a 0.00000227272 Musk! You’re fired!”
What does that convert to Shrute Bucks?
“He really Musked it this time”.
What?
Musked it. It’s just this thing people say around your office all the time. Like when you screw something up in a really irreversable way, you Musked it. I don’t know where it comes from though. You think it came from Elon Musk?
I don’t know. Who knows how words are formed.
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I’m not trying to protect him he is an idiot. However he is trying to find monetization and profitability other than filling the site with ads. It is really hard in 2023. He is going to drive twitter into the ground but it is not going to be because of his monetization or staffing decisions but because of his stupid i-know-it-all attitude.
to be honest, its kind of a great time for future social app start-up founders to use his expensive experimentation as learning observations.
What’s his strategy? Leroy Jenkins?
I really want X.org to challenge this move in court and win!
Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears
I thought the the new logo was the X11 logo at first, they are bit similar.
Also a bit ironic seeing as Musk wants
TwitterX to be an “everything app”, while X11’s cruft and bloated featureset have led to it being replaced by Wayland.Might be tricky. Muskrat has been trying to make x.com a thing for decades. Nearly killed PayPal at one point until he was forced out of that company
