Elon is a genius! He removed the bird, symbolizing the loss of freedom for its user and his company's inability to soar to great heights.
The bird leaving indicates an impeding catastrophe about to hit his company and the new symbol "X" is just as clever, because that's the sign people will click on when they go uninstall the app. Soon, the relationship between Twitter and its users will be nonexistent, just like Musk and his "X" wives
It's especially relevant when you consider the phrase "Canary in a coal mine", which literally and figuratively describes early warning of a problem.
I have no idea why CNN would do a news story on what amounts to a marketing gimmick from a website.
Money!
Money, uh, finds a way
Cough Televised Trump "Town Hall" Cough
CNN isn't what it used to be...
There’s no empty Trump or DeSantis podiums for them to air I guess
Do you see all the engagement this post is getting? It's not just a marketing gimmick for Twitter...
yes lets change the one thing twitter has left a recognizable brand
Elon's obsession with "X" is the most cringe thing about him.
Not the most, just one of.
I honestly think he desperately wanted to be a porn star or something. Like, he really is maniacally obsessed with 'x'. He's such a complete fucking tool.
It’s gonna be a maze.
“69” and “420” are up there too
The canary is the first to go.
We really need a way to block by keywords. Elon Musk says is about as worthless as Donald Trump says.
I would say more actively harmful (since there's often some attempt at manipulation behind the words) than worthless.
wants to create a super app for everything
limits DMs because they can’t manage spam
yeah, ok buddy
He's changing it to a toilet, to match what most people call the platform these days.
Ugh, not this X thing. What a farce.
I'm sure it was remarked upon at the time, but naming your company "X Corp" is the most lame comic book supervillain shit I've ever heard. Like not even main supervillain, but more like sub Hammer level. One of those bad guys who is always coming up with elaborate schemes for petty shit and getting his ass handed to him by tertiary level heroes.
They're probably different enough to not get sued but I wouldn't want to risk Amazon getting litigious.
He’s also risking legal action from Microsoft (DirectX, Xbox), Apple (OS X), Google (skunkworks called Google X), Xvideos, Firaxis (XCOM) and Meta (owns a trademark on X in social media they bought from MS for what became Facebook Games) all at the same time.
A-well-a bird bird bird, bird is the word
A-well-a don't you know about the bird?
Well everybody's talkin' about the bird!
Lets kill twitter by a boring ”X”
So…birds aren’t real?
Twitter? Doesn't ring a bell, sorry.
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