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.
That's because it's an established brand with a huge value to it. Everyone knows twitter. Only an idiot would throw that away.
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
"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
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.
It's anything but inconsistent.
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
And the tweet button is still right there in blue.
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
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 😅
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.
My contribution to this new logo.
I sure everyone will steal this and posted it on X as if they thought of it.
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.
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:
what a fucking moron
Hahaha. Wow is this ever stupid. And getting stupider by the second.
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.
Problem. I have gone to Twitter and am clicking the X but it won't close.
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 ~~Twitter~~ X to be an "everything app", while X11's cruft and bloated featureset have led to it being replaced by Wayland.
The old logo and name were a work of marketing art, and still so simple you get the gist of the platform from it. This is just, what the fuck dude.
X
Happening now
Join Twitter today.
But how do I join X? You know, the new thing supposedly currently happening? Why would I join boring old twitter now that X is happening?
Genius at work.
Buy and then kill one of most recognizable brands of the early 21st century. Elon truly is the genius he and his bootlickers believe him to be.
Guess i’ll now just call it “The company formerly known as Twitter” 🤷🏻♂️
This has been his plan since a long time ago, he's just following up on it now https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/05/tech/everything-app-x-musk-china-wechat-learnings-intl-hnk/index.html
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.
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