In the long slow decline of Twitter, Elon Musk is now making the most superficial shufflings of the cosmetics: he’s renaming Twitter “X”. Just “X”. Except the name is still twitter, the url is still twitter.com, it’s just the bird logo is now a generic “X”.
OK, if you say so. People are still going to call it twitter until it implodes. We can’t call it “X” because that’s where we buried the treasure, marked the spot, crossed out a mistake.
Linda Yaccarino, the poor dupe Musk lured into taking over as nominal CEO, waxed rhapsodic over this change.
X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.
No, it won’t. You’re rearranging the deck chairs on the sinking ship. You’re tweaking the font on your CV. You are totally delusional.
I think “Y” (as in “why?”) would be more apt.
Ssh. Don’t interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.
Twitter’s ex.
Twitter’s New “X” Logo Is Reminding Plenty Of People Around X.Org
“X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.”
So much to talking shit without saying a thing
Interesting way to spin “my boss spun this shit on me last night without warning and now I have to explain it”
X? That’s soooo meta!
Good lord, Muskrat really is a 12 year old edgelord…
It is an X parrot.
Everyone is going to laugh and snigger at the name change, but we shouldn’t dismiss Elon’s business acumen. He made a small fortune buying Twitter…
….
Out of a much larger one.
The blue bird was a good logo.
Instantly identifiable, cute, and simple.
X is none of those things and easily confused for other things, including one of the 26 letters in our alphabet.
I don’t get this.
Musk wants to make Twitter into a super app that does everything people do online.
Audio? Spotify etc..
Video? That is what Youtube, TikTok, and any and all cable, satellite, and internet TV and movie channels already do.
Messaging? That is what cell phones and email do.
Payments/banking? That is what Paypal, banks, and credit cards are for.
So Musk wants Twitter X to compete with several dozen other well established entities?
I still don’t get it.
Since I don’t like Musk, I won’t ever have an X account to go along with my nonexistent Twitter account.
I will however, attend the funeral of Twitter X, like many tens of millions of other people, online of course but not using the X app.
Thanks to Twitter, Musk has made a small fortune out of a much larger one
I used to use Twitter sometimes because it was useful.
Mostly following links to and from Twitter to follow the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Since Musk bought it, it has become more and more unusable.
Lately, I get one of three messages.
1. Must be over 18 and log onto your Twitter account.
To see a news headline and I don’t have an account.
2. This didn’t work. Try again.
3. The Tweet appears but that is it.
No Thread.
You have to log onto Twitter using your nonexistent account to actually read Twitter.
Which I’m not going to do ever because…Elon Musk is a terrible person.
Elon Musk hasn’t figured out that when your user base disappears, you no longer have an internet website that is going to make money or even keep on existing.
Strangely enough, there still isn’t a replacement for Twitter.
I’ve heard of Threads from that other evil oligarch but have yet to see any links to it and I won’t get a Threads account either.
X-terminate! X-terminate!! X-terminate!!!!
The Daleks were ahead of their time.
Musk has owned the x.com domain name since 1999, originally for his online banking service that merged into paypal, but it now redirects to twitter.
I guess since he had it anyway he might as well use it for his wechat ripoff.
First argument I’ve seen that’s a compelling reason. Let’s see how long until this mistake is gone.
And the logo is apparently his usual high quality work. It’s capital X from Monotype’s Special Alphabets 4
If he’s still stiffing his suppliers (office space, cloud services, etc.), I wish they would all evict him and cut off all services at the same time.
Too bad, when Twitter finally dies, there won’t be a grave we can piss on. Maybe scratch a X logo on the ground and have a go at it. Turn it into a TikTok meme? (I’ve never had a Twitter account, or seen anything on TikTok.)
sqlrob, @15: So does that mean that super-genius Musk has switched his company logo to something which either he can’t copyright himself, or is already under copyright belonging to somebody else? Brilliant.
You beat me to “crossed out a mistake”.
“Ex” is not something universally associated with positive feelings.
Maybe ex-billionarie will be relevant, soon.
:X X”- how illitterate people sign documents.
And the symbol of Aldouis Hynkel in “The Great Dictator”.
Dunc, see @ 4, which mentions x.org, the official site for the original X windows system. And the remarkably similar logo.
Still, I expect that Muskrat will try to go after them shortly, as the letter will belong to him, then he’ll go after MPAA for using the letter to rate his favorite films. Then, the illiterate, for signing with his company’s copyrighted letter.
Well, right until a court tells him that no letter can be owned by a corporation or person.
Idea: celebrate Musk by wearing Hynkel-style armbands with “X X”.
Also, “planet X” – If it exists- is likely several hundred astronomical units out. Encourage the Elon to be the first human to get there.
yeh yeh yeh it’s mister x-to-the-z xzibit
I hereby name the new Twitter X icon the road kill buzzard. Come on you cartoonists out there! Show us some good stuff!
“payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities”
ooh, i wonder if he’s alluding to nfts, crypto, etc… i’m wondering if he thinks that already crippled service will run at all when blockchains are involved.
Nope, his x com came out in 2000. He was pressured to merge it by the stockholders with paypal.
But, it’s interesting that renaming and a new logo is far more important than, oh, getting users and advertisers back or well, keeping the service stable and running.
He’ll turn Twitter into penny stock soon at this rate.
Soon to be X platform.
He’d make more money with the XXX platform.
Just trying to give him bad ideas… Not that he’s a shortage of them.
For fans of “The Office”, doesn’t that quote sound like Dwight Shrute describing the ll-fated Sabre Store.
” he’s renaming Twitter “X””
Ye was already taken.
@23 cheerfulcharlie said: I hereby name the new Twitter X icon the road kill buzzard,
I reply: a t-shirt had 2 buzzards on a tree branch. One said, ‘patience my ass, I’m gonna go kill something’. And, that’s what the elongated muskrat seems to be thinking.
Yeah, Melon Usk is an idiot. What on earth does he think he achieves by renaming a well-recognized brand into a single letter from the arse of the Latin alphabet? Instead of “tweeting” will people now be doing what? Exing? That word already does have a meaning (I do not know about English, but in CZ it is slang for “dying”). There was very little doubt about it prior to his purchase of Twitter, but ever since that, he keeps confirming continuously that he is, in fact, an idiot of colossal proportions.
I predict he will have about as much success rebranding Twitter to “X” as the other asshole had success rebranding Facebook to “Meta”.
eXing, exiting, six of one, half dozen of the other.
Muskmelon’s really using his head – as a battering ram.
And he’s starting an Artificial Idiocy company, so biological idiocy meets artificial idiocy, whatever can to wrong – go wrong – go wrong – …
Who’s he gonna get the right kind of “X” from? Big Bird? Vanna White?
Opinion : He is rebranding and changing functionality to make it more like tic tok.
He wants what’s left of the user base, a hijacked group, so X starts with a largish base.
Police crashed Elon Musk’s attempt to take down Twitter’s sign with a crane
Because he didn’t get a permit.
USPTO Trademark Application
Application date: May 25, 2017
Mark information: a stylized letter “X”
Relevant field: anything concerning computer software
Current owner: Meta Corp.
That is going to be some cage match.
Elon is not just a man-child, he is a man-fetus.
@36: Reginald Selkirk
You forgot to mention the best part — after the premature end of the Twitter sign removal, all that was left was:
“er”
Sums up the whole name change quite succinctly, methinks.
jeanmeslier:
So, what’s wrong with that?
I think you broke the metaphor; might as well have written man-zygote and break it all the way.
@ 12 raven
Same here; but in the tread about Barbie’s crotch (never thought I’d have to type those words) someone pointed out there’s a site called nitter.net. If you just replace the “twitter.com” on a link to a tweet with “nitter.net” you can see the tweet in context, with the whole thread, what (if any) it’s replying to, comments, etc. Like you used to be able to do with twitter before Musk fucked it up.
I’ve been using it and it works fine. (Top tip, Stevko.)
Maybe he is trying to get sued by Apple? Or has the Mac OS updated beyond OS X at this point? lol Seriously though, maybe he needs to update the name again to something more appropriate, like ∅.
Reginald Selkirk @ 38, gonna be one hell of a match, given X org’s prior art possession for a wee bit before Meta’s existence.
jeanmeslier @ 39, not at all. You see, when Elon was an infant, the wrong thing was tossed out with the diaper – the infant. This resulted in a turd being swaddled and raised in his place.