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Brilliant.
Except that Meta (Facebook) has already trademarked X as pertains to social media.
AKA Twitter is now Fucked?
Was there a time it wasn’t?
There was a time they let people send Tweets through SMS. It almost made sense back then.
KILL IT
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!
RIP AND TEAR
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yeah, well, even the @twitter account now has the X logo.
x.com redirects to twitter.com as well.
Wonder if Businesses will replace the twitter logo in their windows as well.
Wonder if Businesses will replace the twitter logo in their windows as well.
I doubt they will for a while at least. This change was so sudden that a lot of people will just not know what X is. It doesn’t look like a social media icon and a lot of people will just not be familiar with it.
It’s also horribly forgettable, even if I did use X regularly, I might just forget what the icon looked like out of context.
At this time, many businesses are indeed probably replacing their twitter logo, with either Mastodon, threads, or nothing as a replacement
They did a great job replacing a highly marketable icon with character, with something that feels like cliche 80’s dial-up geocities days that doesn’t make sense at all, given the terminology of everything…
In other news, you need to log in to use twitter now? lol. Wow, genius
Kinda like the names of his kids.
I wonder how many (e)X-twitter users there will be after this change.
Even Mastodon’s old lingo "toot"ing sounds more trendy than "x"ing a comment.
If you remember back to your birthday cards as a kid when your loved ones put XOXO in the card… X is kisses.
So Xing is pronounced Kissing!
The X isn’t kisses. The X stand for closes eyes and the O is an open mouth, hence XO = kiss emote and XOXO is the plural
Doesn’t “XOXO” mean “hugs and kisses”? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.
That never made sense to me. X is the shape of two people hugging and O is the shape of pursed lips.
Yeah I don’t get it either, but it’s been that way for so long that we as a society probably stopped questioning it.
Yeah, you are right. Guess we used it wrong in school.
You’re interpreting a much older shorthand with online emoticon rules. XO is a closed-eye open-mouth emoticon, but XOXO has been “hugs and kisses” for long enough to have been used when people wrote letters by hand.
That was always my understanding of it.
Yeah that’s what I grew up learning and my mom taught me that x is kisses o is hugs. Til that it’s seen and way!
Don’t tweet it, just exit.
"x"ing a comment.
Excreting.
Wait…it’s not tooting anymore?
I mean I do that daily. Only not on the internets
Apparently Elon has a thing for the letter X. SpaceX, naming his son “X Æ A-12”, and now renaming Twitter.
Apparently according to Elon his wife came up with most of the name
Can he legally change his son’s name to use the new x?
𝕏 Æ A-𝕏ii
“Schadenfreude ist die beste Freude” :p
Facebook/Meta owns the trademark for “X” for use in social networking.
Microsoft owns the trademark for “X” for use in finance/e-commerce.
But SpaceX at least is only short for Space Exploration Technologies Corporation
Yeah, nothing to do with a man-child giggling that it sounds like space-sex a bit.
Spac Explorathun.
But they don’t do exploration? They just do orbit stuff
Yet
Model X is called that because he wanted the models to spell SEXY - but Ford still owns “Model E” so he had to go with S3XY instead.
What a tool.
Who could blame the greatest minds from being entranced by a mysterious “X”?
Not risking that click 😉
PS. Is Rick-Rolling allowed here, or was that just on R?
It’s X from the Mega Man X video game series.
👀
He believes they’re above regulation, if anyone tries to CTL X it just gets cut from the web.
Rename Twitter Blue to X Pass
Rename the Post Tweet textbox to the X Box
Uploaded videos are now X videos.
what
In my case this translates to “Twitter is now deleted”.
I deleted Twitter years ago.
Isn’t that the jagex logo?
I think it looks different enough from the Jagex logo. Though I think the jury is still out on the X Windows System logo
saw this earlier from an old twitter tab, thought my browser had been hijacked. what an amateurish logo, looks like what a tiny business puts up on their wordpress when they have no designers & are only making a logo because they have to, definitely not what i’d expect from one of the biggest social media sites in the world. elon has been fixated on the whole x thing for literal decades now & that’s the best logo he came up with?
Supposedly this is a temporary logo until they can create a more permanent one. It literally came from some random that tweeted at him (X’d at him? Lol). He asked for submissions and just chose one, maybe he accidentally laid off all the graphic designers.
man, the whole elon musk/twitter situation seems less & less real the more it plays out
Rebranding was so urgent that he didn’t wait for a finished logo? I have to admit, I’m baffled. With his other changes I can at least imagine a thought process behind it, this one seems to be something he just woke up and decided to do all of a sudden.
The decision probably involved a big line of cocaine
Or two overlapping lines of cocaine!
Wow get this genius some venture capital funding
What other changes has a thought process behind them? Virtually everything he’s done at twitter has seemed like something that occurred to him while shitting and then he forced his team to implement by the end of the day.
Twitter was apparently losing a lot of money before he bought it, so laying off a bunch of staff is one reasonable way to deal with that. Same with charging for the API, getting rid of data centers and offices, and even login requirements to reduce bandwidth and infrastructure costs.
These were all things done as an attempt at solving problems. They may not have been good solutions, but as I said, you can understand the thought process behind them. “We’re spending more than we take in. So do things to reduce spending and boost income.”
I have no idea what problem this rebranding is supposed to solve, though. When Facebook changed to Meta, or Google changed to Alphabet, I could understand those because their name had become associated with only a very specific subset of what the company wanted to do. Twitter is still just being Twitter, though. Unless perhaps he’s got some big new project he’s planning for them to start doing that’s distinct from microblogging.
It becomes a lot easier to understand when you remember that he might just be kinda stupid :)
He’s not, though. He’s had plenty of successful companies that have done some pretty amazing things, and he’s become a multi-hundred-billionaire starting from a relatively extremely small amount of seed funding.
I suspect that his successes in other fields may have led him to think he would be just as good at running a social media company, which isn’t going so well for him.
- Offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion
- Try to back out when Twitter says “ok lol”
- Get forced to complete the purchase
- Saddle Twitter with the debt you now have as a result of buying Twitter
- Invite all the previously-banned bigots and hatemongers back on the site
- Make your staff’s lives hell, including bullshit ‘performance’ stuff like checking how many lines-of-code they write, so most of them are either fired or leave on their own
- Raise API prices sky-high, get ridiculed
- Lock everything behind user log-in, logged-out users can’t see anything
- Rate-limit how many things logged-in users can do
- Break widgets
- Was once the public square of the internet, now weather services are moving to Mastodon
- “why are we still losing money >:(”
- Initiate a half-assed rebrand to “X” but the logo, 𝕏, is literally just a mathematical symbol. Who needs copyright on your billion dollar company’s brand identity, eh?
Whoa, be careful everyone, these are the slick moves of a master genius!
It’s entirely possible that he was smart, I’m sure he was to an extent, but I believe that Space X and Tesla have better structures in places for managing/limiting Musk’s direct influence, and I also believe that, like many of the super rich, he’s succumbed to a form of right-wing brain rot over the years. His brain is now smooth and toxic.
I literally said in the comment that you’re responding to that Musk isn’t good at running Twitter.
It’s a little worse than ‘not going well’, is my point.
He bought a company that got bought by PayPal. He didn’t build anything he didn’t run anything. He bought an existing company that got bought out. At SpaceX and Tesla they have entire structures created to stop Elon from fucking up shit and to manage him. If you need your company organized to manage the owner and stop them from fucking shit up you don’t get to claim to be smart or to build amazing stuff. In every case it’s the engineers that build amazing things despite Elon’s involvement. Elon himself is an idiot.
If Elon’s an idiot who doesn’t do anything, then why are so many of his companies successful at the revolutionary things they try? How’s Blue Origin doing with its rockets, for example?
I think there’s a very clear theme of “I don’t like this person therefore I believe he has no positive qualities whatsoever” going on here.
Uh the just world fallacy it’s strong in you.
Because he’s a rich fuck who inherited emerald mine money to get his start, and he got lucky with his first buys and got an in with other rich fucks, and he buys good companies and sometimes he doesn’t wreck them?
He didn’t build any of it.
While he obviously has some intelligence, he’s still very much an idiot. One just has to look at his immature and mostly incoherent public relations and business decisions to see that. Further, as smart as he thinks he is, he’s not designing rockets. He pays much smarter people than him to do that for him.
People will often say that very rich people MUST be extremely intelligent, after all - they have more money than you!
I would counter that sociopathy and the ability to work with a complete lack of morals is what allows people to truly become wealthy. There’s no such thing as an ethical billionaire.
It’s far easier to be successful if you’re already rich.
He didn’t start off particularly wealthy.
Exactly! Who’s parents don’t have apartheid emerald mine money?!
what an amateurish logo, looks like what a tiny business puts up on their wordpress when they have no designers & are only making a logo
To me it looks legitimately confusingly like the xorg logo, which ironically you usually see on a Linux system only when the config to display the correct logo for something is missing or invalid.
