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.
Hired by who? Dude tried to back out of the deal, and it’s cost him billions.
He has been hounding x.com since before the paypal days. This is him finally having his toy.
What was it all about before being desecrated by Musk?
I think you meant to reply to a different comment of mine. Musky boi here wanted Paypal to be X.com before being mutinied from his position as CEO because x.com sounds like a porn site.
Twitter on the other hand was for quick sharing of information in under a specified word count, like a bird tweeting. It was a primary source of information for a lot before its possession and subsequent consumption by a billionaire 1950’s fridge
Between 2017 and today, it was a mostly-blank page with the letter “x”: https://web.archive.org/web/20230722020649/http://x.com/
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?
Counterpoint: W
George W. Bush. You’re right!
I think Ж looks cool. It’s like an Greek Psi but mirrored, or an X with a pipe in it.
It’s cyrillic. Makes the sound “j” or “dz”.
Ж NUTZ?
I used to spell my handle with an “x” years ago. I started spelling it differently after seeing so many edgy names with “X’s” in them. I thought it was edgy and changed it.
I feel like cleaning my monitor
Yeah why is this screenshot so grimy lol
i was literally reaching for a microfiber cloth
how do you take a screenshot with the specks on your monitor included?
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.
I don’t think we should worry about an app we will never use. :)
Let me think about potential competitors to such an app… oh, the internet. Is he just trying to launch a new browser?
BrowserX
In 5 seconds I came up with better. BOWSER.
It just sounds like a banking app you can use to text with. Why would I want to use that?
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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?
Pronounced “skeet”
I was going for “shit” but skeet works too.
and when you publish one it’s called “shooting”
They are annoying like mosquitos
We can say then that Elon Musk is full of xeet
Xit. Pronounced as in Xi Jinping.
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Watch it remain being called a tweet.
It’s kinda like Kleenex for facial tissue. What a ding dong.
My friend suggested “an xcrement.”
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Probably be better to refrain from slurs. There are plenty of other, better insults to choose from :)
The only thing more pathetic than Musk are his fans that would defend him no matter what idiotic thing he says or does.
He definitely has that face
Musk is such a man-child. He keeps surprising me, in the most bizarre and negative ways.
You shouldn’t be surprised. It’s absolutely true to form for him.
Fair enough.
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.
Lmfao the absolute ego on that guy is something to marvel.
And it seems his X logo is a blatant ripoff of X.org (and the X Window System).
Good luck googling for X
Wasn’t there a recent horror movie called like that?
X11
New #birdsite
Low effort derivative
I noticed that too. It’s not even a good logo to steal, it’s always felt old.
Much like the X windowing system, Twitter has always been garbage.
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)
Also fuck Nazis for co-opting that beautiful symbol.
Wow, first time on Lemmy and already see someone calling the Hakenkreuz beautiful…
I’m not sure how to take this comment?
Oh he’s taking about Nazis um ok … Zips up pants
Yikes
Xikes*
Xixes
Xixex
Xxx
Wait…too far
X
No such thing as too far.
Yix
🔮 Twitter renaming to X and Mastodon renaming to Twitter 🥸
Thinking “X” is a cool letter is exactly what I’d expect from a middle-aged wannabe edgelord.
@MisterMoo @mastermind I was saying ‘X Corp’ sounds like a company that’s about to be robbed in Batman Beyond.
What a way to bid farewell to your x-45 billion dollars.
