The new X logo has started replacing the blue bird on the web.
      • andallthat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        This seems different, though. Google and Facebook still exist, with their respective logos as part of a parent company that mostly nobody, except for investors, should really care about. Maybe this is what will end up happening here as well, as Elon is sadly famous for saying outrageous things and then backtrack on them, change his mind or just never mention them again, but the way it’s been communicated Twitter and the bird logo are just going away completely.

  • coffeebiscuit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s called X now.… proceeds to prompt “log in to twitter”.

    This is becoming a branding shit show.

    • Szymon@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Musk doesn’t seem to understand the concept of a developmental environment prior to a production launch.

      • disasterpiece@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        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.

        • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Don’t think musk designs the rockets that much, from what I’ve heard musk is basically just the figurehead

    • phi1997@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      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

    • thehatfox@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      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 Twitter X to be an “everything app”, while X11’s cruft and bloated featureset have led to it being replaced by Wayland.

  • Mateoto@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The new name goes well with the audience as they already use extensively nazi swastika symbols as an expression of opinions.

  • demonquark@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Why replace twitter though? Do you what facebook did with threads. Launch a new app and allow existing twitter users to automatically onboard.

    People hate having major changes hoisted on them. See reddit.

    • OccamsTeapot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I like how the suggestion in the comments is 10x better and more effective than what the multi billion dollar company went for

  • ARealDinosaur@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Don’t forget to turn off automatic updates for twitter if you’re stuck using it till you can get a bluesky invite!

      • ARealDinosaur@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        I did. I tried, I’m just not getting it. I mean I’m here…I’m not giving up on learning this stuff. It just doesn’t click for me so far & as a visual artist, the traffic on these mainstream sites is still important for me too. I’m kinda trapped into whatever alternative the masses settle on.

        • sab@kbin.social
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          2 years ago

          That makes sense. Hopefully when Threads joins the Fediverse it will be easier for those who depend on traffic for income to reach a broader audience.

          Some tips on the fediverse, in case you’d want to try it out more more:

          • Pixelfed might be more suited for a visual artist, and seems to be gaining traction. It of course federates perfectly with Mastodon.
          • While Mastodon is to a degree designed specifically not to be Twitter, services like Firefish might scratch the same itch while being more feature rich
          • Use hashtags liberally, as people might follow hashtags to find content that interests them (if you post something with #fediverse on a federated server, it will also show up in kbin.social/m/fediverse/microblog
          • Start of with an introduction post (#introduction), include hashtags related to your work
          • Don’t start out on a very tiny server if you’re there to try to reach a broader audience. That’s easier from a more central node, unfortunately

          Good luck, no matter what you opt for!

    • eric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      But it goes back much further than that. Musk wanted to rebrand PayPal X before they ousted him as CEO more than 20 years ago. He is so proud that he bought this domain in the 90s that he just keeps trying to make it a thing despite the inherent ambiguity.

    • Pattern@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      This is what has me convinced that this whole thing isn’t 4D chess to eliminate Twitter as a tool of left wing speech and organizing. He loves the whole “X” concept. Rebranding Twitter to X feels too authentic to be a cynical destruction of the platform.