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Twitter Rebranded as 'X'
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I'm getting that New Coke-Microsoft Zune-Atari ET game feel on this one.
Anyone else getting that vibe?
Anyone else getting that vibe?
Talk about desperate. Musk has ruined that company, his reputation, and the reputation of his other brands all at the same time.
looking forward to seeing how many outages and bugs we get as the words 'twitter' and 'tweet' are haphazardly purged from variable and function names, repo names, service names etc in typical elon cowboy style.
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I've been alive to now see the two best social networks die. One due to ineptitude (MySpace), another killed off by a reichwing lunatic (Twitter).
We've now entered the era where "Well at least it's not #spacekaren" is the bar to clear for something to be acceptable.
We've now entered the era where "Well at least it's not #spacekaren" is the bar to clear for something to be acceptable.
It's too bad Twitter/X isn't still a publicly traded company. I'd love to see the reaction of people with a vested interest in the company on the NYSE today.
A small dumpster fire logo would be more appropriate.
You guys and gals should realize Musk isn’t doing all this on the spur of the moment. There is at minimum a five year plan at work.
As an older dude you realize that starting a website from scratch takes time and Musk is no teenager. Time for him is actually more expensive than billions of dollars.
You can’t take it with you, but your legacy can live on…
As an older dude you realize that starting a website from scratch takes time and Musk is no teenager. Time for him is actually more expensive than billions of dollars.
You can’t take it with you, but your legacy can live on…
That’s precisely the point. In a time when tech bros are acting increasingly unhinged, maybe bland and unexciting is precisely the stability I crave in a company whose products I rely on for pretty much everything in my life.
it’s easy to walk away from twitter (and I have). I would rather not have to switch away from the apple ecosystem (because frankly, the alternative sucks), which is why I often find myself shaking my head at many a honeheaded take on what Apple ought to do, otherwise they are doomed.
Just checking in to see how the Musk fans are explaining him flushing away 17 years of brand equity for, quite possibly, the stupidest sounding app name. "He's a genius and you can't possibly understand him because he's so smart" appears to be where y'all are going. Wow, good to know.
If privacy is your concern then it's probably not a good idea to be using social media which is designed for you to share anything you want with anyone you want.
As crazy as it sounds.... I really wonder if he is doing all this on purpose. I know there is about a 1% chance of that... but I still wonder.
That should give a few more people the opportunity to finally delete their profiles and move on.
What an utterly ridiculous idea. This really is one of those cases where “any publicity” is just bad..
What an utterly ridiculous idea. This really is one of those cases where “any publicity” is just bad..
What's with his obsession with "X"? The "X" has been overused. And now tweets are going to be called Xs? I'm sure people will continue referring to the company as Twitter.
How does one pronounce Xitter?
💩 would be more appropriate. Twitter becomes Pooper. Tweets become poops.
They have been using this to respond to journalists for months already.
They have been using this to respond to journalists for months already.
How to destroy a brand in record time. The bird is iconic, it would be like coca cola ditching it's name and font.
In the case of Alphabet and Meta it made sense since they are the parent companies while Google is the Search Engine branch and Facebook the Social Media branch.
Wow. This re-branding seems so stupid. Elon has a total obsession with the letter x and other ones like y and z. What's it with that obsession?