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IMO the Twitter name and logo together are brilliant. I guess most languages have sayings about birds singing, as a way to receive information. Basically what Twitter is supposed to be all about. The ONE thing that 100% isn't wrong about Twitter, is the logo and name. Killing that makes no sense.
Musk may think he can fix the image problems he created with a campaign and a new logo. But he can't because the image problems are all about the things Musk has done, and have very little to do with what Twitter used to be. A new name will only enforce the belief that what Twitter used to be has gone, and will most probably accelerate the downward spiral.
Maybe Musk likes the letter X for the meaning, because his exes were all better than the next?
Musk thinks the "image problem" is any credibility that's left over from before he was hired to destroy it. This is all intentional. Anyone denying that at this point is just naive.
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He has been hounding x.com since before the paypal days. This is him finally having his toy.
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But, X. X is, like, the coolest letter of the alphabet! X-Men, Malcolm X ...even your username ends in an X! What do you have to say to that?
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Good good. That will kill it faster.
While I share your sentiment completely, I have a bad feeling that this is the beginning of something bigger. AFAIK the Twitter purchase was Musk’s first venture into building an everything app, and he already owns x.com. I think this is one of the first steps.
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You’ve heard of an ex-boyfriend, now meet your ex-social media.
I appreciate Musk. He shows me what I should have always realized on my own which is many of the super rich folks are there only due to mommy and daddy money and nothing more.
Also that internet edgelords can be successful, if they're born into wealth.
What's a tweet going to be called? A xeet?
Xit. Pronounced as in Xi Jinping.
We can say then that Elon Musk is full of xeet
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Musk is such a man-child. He keeps surprising me, in the most bizarre and negative ways.
He got it. He finally got X.com. all he had to do was buy an existing and thriving community and shit all over it.
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Why not make it a black X on a round white background surrounded by red? (/s)
With little arms for the X so it looks like it's strong or something too right? (Also /s and obligatory fuck nazis)
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What a way to bid farewell to your x-45 billion dollars.
lmao
🔮 Twitter renaming to X and Mastodon renaming to Twitter 🥸
We all know rebranding Facebook as Meta brought so much value to the company and it's users /s Honestly he does whatever the fuck he wants i am tired of seeing his face everywhere, just stop posting whatever he does:" musk go to pee" , "musk ate a lunch! "
I respectfully disagree. Is he an idiot who’s making horrible business decisions? Sure! But changing the name of one of the most famous social media platforms is worth posting on a technology community.
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So he wants to built WeChat for US, but everyone here will either be on WhatsApp or iMessage, and good luck moving people from either of those platforms, it’ll never happen. Especially given his continuously worsening reputation.
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Thinking “X” is a cool letter is exactly what I’d expect from a middle-aged wannabe edgelord.
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ah yes, let's use the same symbol for closing a window... although, I suppose it could be the name of his pet or something
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Why is he stealing Xorg's logo?
He's stealing the X logo, not the X.Org logo. The X.Org logo consists of the X logo with a superimposed "O".
X came way before X.Org. X.Org is just a 21^st^ century implementation of X.
Wait, what?
Yeah, Elon has this idea that he can make WeChat but for places outside of China. An app you're effectively required to have as a means of communication, identification, payment, and whatever else, and he wants to call it "X."
Kind of a stupid idea tbh ! While china the internet is pretty much controlled , we have a rather free internet and most people would use whatever works the best , instead of a bloated app that cant work for what its supposed to do !
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And the most pathetic part is he’s been trying to do this for over 20 years. He tried to rebrand PayPal to X before they ousted him as CEO around the time that the FIRST tech bubble burst, and all these years later, he still hasn’t figured out that this is a bad idea.
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Definitely where energy and effort should be allocated to fix twitters problems
Yeah makes a lot of sense. I know, pay an exorbitant price for a ubiquitous brand then change it to something obscure. Sounds like a great business plan to me. You go Elon.
Free press - this is a 'New Coke' moment for Twitter. They'll announce a new name and logo, then roll it back after the outcry they expect. However, the elon boot-lickers will 'love the name' and everyone else will think it's funny in a schadenfreude kind of way. So it will be super transparent.
I suspect they'll ultimately make twitter a subsidiary of a company called 'X'. (Elon has access to x.com, and has probably wanted to use it for a while.)
Twitter's legal name is already X. It was changed months ago with official announcement. Someone tried to sue Twitter, which is how we found out.
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What a strange way to say "I have no idea what I'm doing - somebody please stop me."
He wants it to look even more like an evil sci-fi corporation? Come on, who is gonna be Superman and take out this dorky Lex Luther loser.
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