There's so many places to update. A branding shift like this is a MASSIVE undertaking!
Having a single letter company/product/app doesn't make that any easier
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Twitter Finally Turns to 'X' on Apple's App Store
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There's so many places to update. A branding shift like this is a MASSIVE undertaking!
Having a single letter company/product/app doesn't make that any easier
How do you pronounce it now, or do you just say the app former known as Twitter? And, what do we call tweets and retweets?
It can be a massive undertaking and it appears they've made fairly little effort to do so at this point. Practically all they've done so far is to change the logo to X and "de-Twitter" the app description/details. The Twitter name is still otherwise seen throughout. I would think they could've relatively easily done some sort of find and replace for the words/text Twitter, Tweet, etc. and replace with X, Post, etc. and do something similar with images.
X Corp seems to be really dragging its feet here. Perhaps they aren't that ready to give up the Twitter association yet but the mixed branding is amateurish and sloppy. If they wanted to keep the Twitter name in play for a while, they should've gone with something like "X Twitter", "Twitter by X", "Twitter, an X app" instead of this current mishmash.
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A legal document between all possible founders of the company literally says Musk is one of five co founders and yet you claim Musk isn’t a co founder. I guess you know better than all the founders of Tesla the history of Tesla. Of course none of that matters to the fact that Elon Musk was a key component of Tesla becoming the most successful electronic car company.
I think the X is pronounced as "deadly beta-level software posing as a self-driving system."
https://www.reuters.com/business/au...a-cars-over-loss-steering-control-2023-08-01/
Oh, wait. wrong company.
https://www.reuters.com/business/au...a-cars-over-loss-steering-control-2023-08-01/
Oh, wait. wrong company.
Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning Founded Tesla in 2003.
Xusk invested in Tesla in 2004.
Xusk then did as Xusk does and applied revisionist history and to this day claims to be a founder.
There was a name change from Tesla to Tesla Motors in 2017.
Perhaps that's the technical point the lying sack of x is using to claim he is the "founder".
To repeat.
Xusk was not the founder of Tesla.
No matter how much he tries to gaslight his followers.
Xusk invested in Tesla in 2004.
Xusk then did as Xusk does and applied revisionist history and to this day claims to be a founder.
There was a name change from Tesla to Tesla Motors in 2017.
Perhaps that's the technical point the lying sack of x is using to claim he is the "founder".
To repeat.
Xusk was not the founder of Tesla.
No matter how much he tries to gaslight his followers.
It's still my head cannon that Musk was very high on Pot when he decided to buy Twitter. 
It's still my head cannon that Musk was very high on Pot when he decided to buy Twitter.
He might have been; remember when he tried to get out of buying Twitter, prob. because he knew what an idiotic idea it was, and then Twitter had to sue him in Delaware Corp. Court, and his lawyers said he was going to lose, so severely it would leave a mark?
Good times. Good times.
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I literally mentioned how that document came to be. In the post your replied to.
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I do kinda miss that Apple skeuomorphic design.
i don't agree, just making lot of money is not the criteria for success.
People who make lot of money can make mistakes.
It also depends on what kind of a person he is, how he treats his employees.
here X is not the logo.
X in Mac OS X means version 10.
X in iPhone X is version 10.
So different things.
Except for the fact that everything you said is false, but go on.
I’m sorry but this is dangerous nonsense, anyone can claim anything on the internet.
I don’t know of any actual Jewish people that would say such outlandish things. Allowing white supremacists to spread their propaganda and recruit people is not in any way “freedom”. Eliminationist rhetoric is attempting to take away others freedoms and their lives.
I suggest you pick up a history book if you’re not just trolling because this is just a terrible terrible statement.
Surely if we just ignore them they’ll go away, right??
I'm possibly / probably wrong, but I'm thinking: the logo is now a naff 'X', but the name of the app was never not going to remain 'Twitter'.
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has updated its official app on Apple's App Store to conform with the new branding that was announced last weekend by billionaire owner Elon Musk.
Instead of "Let's talk" – Twitter's original tagline – "Blaze your glory!" is the curious subtitle on X's iOS App Store listing, which describes the app as "the trusted digital town square for everyone."
The new logo and name are meant to reflect Musk's longstanding intention to transform the social media network into an "everything app" similar to China's WeChat.
The rebranding process that has taken place over the last week has been piecemeal to say the least, with various aspects of the platform's online experience still containing vestigial references to Twitter.
The app icon was replaced earlier last week, but the app's name change is believed to have taken longer than usual because Apple dithered on whether to allow it. App Store policy doesn't permit an app to have a single character title on its App Store listing, as pointed out by Nick Sheriff.
Apparently X received special treatment from Apple, which is more than Musk got when he ordered the Twitter signage to be replaced at the company's headquarters in San Francisco last week. Five letters were taken down from the office's large vertical sign before work was interrupted by police who were concerned about the lack of safety measures to protect pedestrians walking beneath the operation.
A giant pulsing X has since been erected on the roof of the building, and that has also drawn the ire of city officials after neighbors complained it was intrusive.
The X branding has been criticized by some commentators for being uninspired, as well as for the letter's long association with porn websites. The new name for the social media platform also means that Twitter Blue is now called "X Blue," which could be doubly suggestive of lewd content. The subscription service allows users to upload up to three hours of video, up from the previous two-hour limit.
Twitter/X CEO Linda Yaccarino said the platform will be powered by AI and offer users "unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities... X will connect us all in ways we're just beginning to imagine."
Article Link: Twitter Finally Turns to 'X' on Apple's App Store
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Yes, it is. Freedom of assembly extends to racists and people you disagree with. The fact that people want constitutional rights to be ignored just because it's the internet is just one step away from losing them offline. If you were talking about child molesters, I'd agree with you. And they do take action against that... because molesting children is wrong and illegal, and being a racist isn't.
You actually see white supremacist recruiting on Twitter? I dunno... sounds like the algorithm is showing you what you're interested in seeing. Lol. Jokes aside, I'm guessing you haven't seen any of that and are just parroting some anti-Musk, race-baiting news source that's cashing in on your emotional clicks & views.
It's truly sad that otherwise smart people have been duped into believing all these crazy racial narratives and absolutely refuse to believe otherwise, even though their daily offline lives are practically devoid of it.
Absolutely. The point being made was that Twitter was “censoring people” and “stifling free speech” before Mr. Musk bought it. That of course is not true and to your point, opening Twitter/X up to basically ANY content also exposes the company to countless potential legal entanglements. The main takeaway from all of this is that Musk is a basically incompetent individual with way too much money to waste on things that do society absolutely no good whatsoever.
We call all of it a thing of the past and stop feeding the social media advertising platforms free content to monetize.
White supremacists are bad. Deplatforming them is not bad. Most companies don’t welcome white supremest content and don’t want their advertising placed next to it. If white supremacists want to post their hateful racist rhetoric they’re welcome to create their own social media platform to do it on. Because we have free speech in this country. That’s what that means.
Your commentary on free speech is fundamentally wrong. Twitter is not now and never has been a free speech platform. It is not the public square. It’s a private company that can impose any rules of conduct they see fit so long as it confirms to the law.
Repeating the canned rhetoric that Musk acolytes chant isn’t going to gain any traction here.
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Supremacists of any flavor or convictions are bad as their ideas go against basic statesmanship competencies. There is a reason why Nazi Germany never had a "future" and was always meant to be an instrument of global politics in the hands of those who are actually practiced statesmanship competencies.
Presumably will change to "X". So instead of Tweeting on Twitter, you'll X on X.