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rebrand to X
Since i dont think … sugar, spice and everything nice is involved,
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Why not make it a black X on a round white background surrounded by red? (/s)
With little arms for the X so it looks like it’s strong or something too right? (Also /s and obligatory fuck nazis)
Also fuck Nazis for co-opting that beautiful symbol.
Wow, first time on Lemmy and already see someone calling the Hakenkreuz beautiful…
I’m not sure how to take this comment?
Oh he’s taking about Nazis um ok … Zips up pants
how do you take a screenshot with the specks on your monitor included?
I feel like cleaning my monitor
Yeah why is this screenshot so grimy lol
i was literally reaching for a microfiber cloth
IMO the Twitter name and logo together are brilliant. I guess most languages have sayings about birds singing, as a way to receive information. Basically what Twitter is supposed to be all about. The ONE thing that 100% isn’t wrong about Twitter, is the logo and name. Killing that makes no sense.
Musk may think he can fix the image problems he created with a campaign and a new logo. But he can’t because the image problems are all about the things Musk has done, and have very little to do with what Twitter used to be. A new name will only enforce the belief that what Twitter used to be has gone, and will most probably accelerate the downward spiral.
Maybe Musk likes the letter X for the meaning, because his exes were all better than the next?
But, X. X is, like, the coolest letter of the alphabet! X-Men, Malcolm X …even your username ends in an X! What do you have to say to that?
Counterpoint: W
George W. Bush. You’re right!
I think Ж looks cool. It’s like an Greek Psi but mirrored, or an X with a pipe in it.
It’s cyrillic. Makes the sound “j” or “dz”.
Ж NUTZ?
I used to spell my handle with an “x” years ago. I started spelling it differently after seeing so many edgy names with “X’s” in them. I thought it was edgy and changed it.
Musk thinks the “image problem” is any credibility that’s left over from before he was hired to destroy it. This is all intentional. Anyone denying that at this point is just naive.
Hired by who? Dude tried to back out of the deal, and it’s cost him billions.
He has been hounding x.com since before the paypal days. This is him finally having his toy.
What was it all about before being desecrated by Musk?
I think you meant to reply to a different comment of mine. Musky boi here wanted Paypal to be X.com before being mutinied from his position as CEO because x.com sounds like a porn site.
Twitter on the other hand was for quick sharing of information in under a specified word count, like a bird tweeting. It was a primary source of information for a lot before its possession and subsequent consumption by a billionaire 1950’s fridge
Between 2017 and today, it was a mostly-blank page with the letter “x”: https://web.archive.org/web/20230722020649/http://x.com/
He really wants people to think of X.com? That was a pile of garbage that he got lucky to sell.
What’s a tweet going to be called? A xeet?
Removed by mod
Xit. Pronounced as in Xi Jinping.
Watch it remain being called a tweet.
My friend suggested “an xcrement.”
We can say then that Elon Musk is full of xeet
Pronounced “skeet”
I was going for “shit” but skeet works too.
They are annoying like mosquitos
and when you publish one it’s called “shooting”
So he wants to built WeChat for US, but everyone here will either be on WhatsApp or iMessage, and good luck moving people from either of those platforms, it’ll never happen. Especially given his continuously worsening reputation.
He lacks the understanding on how WeChat was able to get were it is. Ignoring any Chinese government help they were the default chat app for China therefore on every phone and were in a market without strong electronic payment system. All the other services that WeChat has come from the success of chat and payments.
North America and Europe for better or worse have had credit cards as the standard for electronic payments for decades now. North America uses SMS/iMessage as the default chat service and Europe uses WhatsApp. Twitter is used less than Facebook messager in both ot those markets.
There’s no way any company can get the kind of traction WeChat has in China. Apple might come close if they release iMessage across platforms but that will probably never happen in (unless the EU passes some new laws to force it).
Free press - this is a ‘New Coke’ moment for Twitter. They’ll announce a new name and logo, then roll it back after the outcry they expect. However, the elon boot-lickers will ‘love the name’ and everyone else will think it’s funny in a schadenfreude kind of way. So it will be super transparent.
I suspect they’ll ultimately make twitter a subsidiary of a company called ‘X’. (Elon has access to x.com, and has probably wanted to use it for a while.)
Twitter’s legal name is already X. It was changed months ago with official announcement. Someone tried to sue Twitter, which is how we found out.
Yep, its listed as owned by X Corp on Wikipedia.
Usually I would have said that this rebrand is amongst the hall of fame entrees, side by side with MAX (former HBO Max), but given that it’s Musk we’re talking about, the platform is already dead anyway
Yikes
Xikes*
Xixes
Xixex
Xxx
Wait…too far
X
No such thing as too far.
Yix
He may change the name, but he’s still a twit.
What a dumbass. Let’s throw out all the well-known brand recognition we paid for and then spend millions of dollars we don’t have on a new name and logo.
Yeah makes a lot of sense. I know, pay an exorbitant price for a ubiquitous brand then change it to something obscure. Sounds like a great business plan to me. You go Elon.
Definitely where energy and effort should be allocated to fix twitters problems
I appreciate Musk. He shows me what I should have always realized on my own which is many of the super rich folks are there only due to mommy and daddy money and nothing more.
Also that internet edgelords can be successful, if they’re born into wealth.
Thinking “X” is a cool letter is exactly what I’d expect from a middle-aged wannabe edgelord.
@MisterMoo @mastermind I was saying ‘X Corp’ sounds like a company that’s about to be robbed in Batman Beyond.
