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Twitter Rebranded as 'X'
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Probably won’t be long. Most of the ad spots Apple currently running were prepaid before Musk bought the company formerly known as Twitter. And most of it is for Apple TV+, which doesn’t factor as much importance as devices. (example is new MacBook Air. Normally the ad campaign would last for months but this time around, only few weeks before it started to disappear meaning Apple didn’t buy lot of as space for it)
Titanium didn't invent the thick bar X
It's a thing: 𝕏 (mathematical double-struck capital x) https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F
Twitter as a brand is very well known — posting “tweets” reinforced the brand. He could have launched “Twitter Pay”, etc. if he wanted to branch out — why throw out the brand that you paid for? He could have easily spent a fraction of $44B building up x.com as a competitor to Twitter. This makes no sense to me.
I think Elon has lost grip of all the current problems that people actually face with Twitter, like bots and hijacked trends.. and general toxicity that puts off most of the people from posting anything.
meanwhile, millions have stopped using Threads because of the inability to post anything remotely displeasing.
Well Meta from all its different platforms.. doesn't actually have intellectual (opinion posters) users anywhere.. so most of its own users who came to try it out found it boring and left soon.
Threads will succeed only if Elon successfully kills Twitter.
That's not how trademarks work. The use of the symbol in the context of mathematics is totally irrelevant as of whether the symbol can been successfully trademarked in the context of computer software.
I can't tell if Musk is more of a Michael Scott or Kendall Roy. Maybe a hybrid of both.
It has.. so that tells more about people than the platform itself.. but the teams running the platform are responsible to ensure its a safe place for users... but it failed to do so.. so a lot of people deleted the app long ago and only check it on the browser for a few mins.
So I am not sure what you mean by "Elon has lost grip of all the current problems" when twitter has always been toxic (which as a by product, increases user engagement overall).
If there’s no new app or any kind of new product or exciting partnership to be presented today, why on Earth make a decision like this now?
Seems completely arbitrary to change the name just to change the name.
The announcements and promises for x they made are complete vapor flavored nothing burgers.
Why wouldn’t you exploit the brand recognition and (still) huge user base of Twitter to have people trust your “everything app” app and then, after several many years, when all the users are fully plugged in, financially and emotionally, you pull the rug underneath them and rename the company and change the branding?
Sure, if the vast majority of Twitter users were Tesla or Elon fans then this would make a lot of sense. It’s just that they’re not.
Also, the Twitter bird logo is recognized across the globe and most cultures -Why would you willingly go back to square one? And use something as generic and easily mistaken for something else as the letter X?
Maybe get off the nostalgia train and keep all the “x” stuff for your Tesla products?!?
Seems completely arbitrary to change the name just to change the name.
The announcements and promises for x they made are complete vapor flavored nothing burgers.
Why wouldn’t you exploit the brand recognition and (still) huge user base of Twitter to have people trust your “everything app” app and then, after several many years, when all the users are fully plugged in, financially and emotionally, you pull the rug underneath them and rename the company and change the branding?
Sure, if the vast majority of Twitter users were Tesla or Elon fans then this would make a lot of sense. It’s just that they’re not.
Also, the Twitter bird logo is recognized across the globe and most cultures -Why would you willingly go back to square one? And use something as generic and easily mistaken for something else as the letter X?
Maybe get off the nostalgia train and keep all the “x” stuff for your Tesla products?!?
Elon's X logo is not trademarkable, because it's pulled directly from the font "Special Alphabets 4".
You can't trademark a letter typed out in a font that already has a copyright of its own.
Just me, but if I were to rebrand something as a letter it would be Q. It will be spelled "Que" and pronounced queue.
So you prefer a toxic product? I'm not sure what's the point you are trying to make?
Twitter being toxic is a major concern for a lot of users and it's the number 1 on the list of issues with the platform. If you like it the way it is.. good for you.. at least Elon is pleasing someone I'm glad.
If we are randomly picking letters, why not Z? spelled as Zed and pronounced as Jade.
Again, I don't understand what you mean by "Elon has lost grip of all the current problems" when toxicity has always existed and Elon has always supported free speech. He never "lost grip" of the toxicity problem, free speech only increased it.
Toxicity is not a problem for me. I simply block on Twitter. Not a huge deal.
If anything, Twitter teaches people to grow thicker skin. Random trolls on the internet using words shouldn't ruin your day.
Ok now at least you are making sense. Also if violence and hate promoting free speech increases toxicity and toxicity drives away advertisers, is that absolute free speech an advantage or a challenge?
There have been several news stories about Elon's friends and investors pleading and forcing him to stop posting on twitter. Do read them.
Also there was a time when reddit used to be like that.. but it was years ago.. they got into a lot of trouble and finally cleaned up.. but it actually brought in a lot of new users who preferred the safe space it provided.
What? Elon said the problem with Twitter was bots. He couldn't figure out how to get rid of bots, so he said the solution was creating an $8 "verified" user option. Except that didn't get rid of bots, and it also entirely broke the concept of the "verified" user, because the only thing that's verified is the payment from a person, rather than their identity. So now if you see a public figure's name with a "verified" badge, it doesn't mean it's actually that person anymore. And he's also progressively broken basic features of Twitter, making it more unreliable, and more difficult to use. He's never had any kind of "grip" on anything with Twitter, ever.
I think the general perception about Elon's twitter run is that he created more problems than he solved. Also the anti humane approach to reducing the team's head count was really unbecoming. He was a rare billionaire that general public actually admired.. he quickly changed that in the recent year or so.