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Twitter Rebranded as 'X'
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While 450 million is a large number of people. In reality it’s just 5% of the world’s population.
It’s going to be “To Twix”. Best of two worlds.
As Steve said when he demoed OSX for the first time “It’s so good you wanna lick it” (because the buttons looked like Candy)
LOL, this makes me think of the early nineties rave scene, and hearing this from some not-so-hip party attendees.
This will fail.
Too much money.
Not enough brains.
X marks the spot where he lost his GDang mind.
Too much money.
Not enough brains.
X marks the spot where he lost his GDang mind.
Ridiculous. But even more ridiculous is him thinking he can truly turn this platform into a global town square. While he continues to push his views every way he can.
Calling to vote for a specific party, monetising specific channels and content, pushing his tweets (or X’s) down everyone throat.
His job is to make the company profitable, not further polarise the world.
Calling to vote for a specific party, monetising specific channels and content, pushing his tweets (or X’s) down everyone throat.
His job is to make the company profitable, not further polarise the world.
Agreed, however, "tweet" isn't (wasn't) very transferrable to other languages IMHO. It's only just "a message/post on Twitter". Not sure X will do better but there's "t-X-t"... Will be interesting to see if the platform survives in the long run.
Meta should change Threads to O and we can have hugs and kisses all over the place
Twitter has rebranded as "X" worldwide, under the direction of owner Elon Musk. An "interim" logo featuring a white X on a black background has replaced the original blue bird logo on the platform, signaling the billionaire's intention to transform the social media network into an "everything app" similar to China's WeChat.
Musk on Sunday changed his profile picture to the new logo and added to his bio "X.com," which redirects to a brief "X" splash screen on Twitter's homepage. In a tweet on Monday morning, Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino said "X is here! Let's do this." Musk later shared an image of the new X branding projected onto the side of Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco.
Twitter's official legal entity name was registered as X Corp when the company was acquired in October 2022 by Musk, who has since been referring to it as "X" or "an accelerant to creating X," but the customer-facing avian branding had hitherto survived.
The social media platform has been called Twitter since its launch in March 2006, and its About page still says the blue bird logo is "our most recognizable asset" and "That's why we're so protective of it."
Regardless, Musk believes the replacement "should have been done a long time ago." His penchant for the letter X is evident elsewhere, for example in his SpaceX and X.Ai company names. X.com was also the name of the online bank Musk co-founded, before it merged with Confinity to eventually become PayPal.
According to Platformer's Zoe Schiffer, Musk sent an email last night to Twitter employees telling them the company would publicly become known as X, and that it was the last time he would email from a Twitter address.
In a Sunday tweet, Yaccarino suggested X would 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."
"Tweets" are to be replaced, according to Musk, and posts will be called "x's". As of writing, the service still appears as Twitter in the official app, but expect that to also change soon.
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I wonder how many websites will look a mess with their formatting once the twitter dot com address is removed because pages that reference twitter will show '404 page not found'.
X Admins going after things that make Dear Leader look bad:
Tech bro's chime in with a hell ya!
Tech bro's chime in with a hell ya!
Not sure you are right... for example in Poland/Polish it was already localised sometimes to "tłit" (loosing all connotation with meaning, forming noun meaning "entry on twitter" or even vert "tłiting")... though, most of the people still write it "twitter" but verbs from it are already "twitować" and so forth.
With X, which doesn't exist in Polish alphabet nominatively, it would be somewhat odd as it's quite short and even en English it's difficult to figure out what the heck will you be ding... x-ing? sould somewhat like japanes Xi...
Satellite access for all in the world makes his organization unique. Zuckerberg tried it with the third world but wanted exclusive access through Facebook, and India brought it down on the basis of net neutrality.
As a private company he can do as he wishes and being profitable is up to him.
They’ve already got a great X video sharing service at Xvideos.com. I’m excited to see more great things are coming to X in the near future.
That looked like the X Window logo to me at very first glance. Well, looked like my memory of it. Not really the same.
Sooo....Twitter is dead then.
That was quick and unceremonious....
That was quick and unceremonious....
Yeah that’s why Tesla just had record quarter delivering 446k vehicles. But let’s not let the facts get in the way.
Oh it’s so easy to build rockets that NASA and Blue Origin are having great success. So easy to blow up federal money.
There are not many bad moves left and he’s going make them all.
That's what a big ego will get you. Also just another way to waste money that could clearly go towards something more useful. And for the record: I still call 'Meta' - 'Facebook' and I will call this thing 'Twitter' until the end of time. ('X' is gonna be too confusing.)
Is it me or does Elon have an unhealthy relationship with the letter X?
Does it really matter what happens to Twitter aside from entertainment value? Plenty of serious businesses from Musk that are actually worth the attention.
Twitter was something people cared about, it had a key place in the online community, and now it's been wrecked by a spiteful and petty individual. X only has meaning for him, it's like he's trying to turn something that used to have meaning to many people, to his own private plaything.
By the way: this interim logo was ""designed"" by two podcasters (reality: it was picked from a font they found).
The ""logo"" is also the Unicode Character 𝕏 (U+1D54F), also known as the 'Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X' so X Corp. can never trademark this logo.
This whole transition is peak Musk. Dreamed about X since 1999 and change everything in one day. I guess the Twitter CEO only learned about the switch on Sunday.
The ""logo"" is also the Unicode Character 𝕏 (U+1D54F), also known as the 'Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X' so X Corp. can never trademark this logo.
This whole transition is peak Musk. Dreamed about X since 1999 and change everything in one day. I guess the Twitter CEO only learned about the switch on Sunday.