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Twitter To Rebrand As X (www.theverge.com)
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[-] trashhalo@beehaw.org 281 points 1 year ago
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[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 193 points 1 year ago

Ffs

Yes change the name and iconic logo of a huge corporation, that will go over great.

If he hadn't demonstrated his incompetence earlier I'd think it was intentional.

I still think there's a bit of intent to destroy the company but it's kinda hard to tell.

[-] poorsocialskills@lemmy.ml 118 points 1 year ago

There’s a woman over on Mastodon making the argument that he’s trying to destroy it so it can’t be used to organize left-leaning political action (fundraising, activism, issue messaging, etc) any longer. She makes a compelling argument.

[-] bedrooms@kbin.social 97 points 1 year ago

I don't buy that. He tried to cancel the purchase. He's also losing money, and so it's definitely not a 3D chess.

[-] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 49 points 1 year ago

Didn't Twitter almost take him to court if he didn't follow through with the purchase? I think he got caught in his over investment in Twitter last year, and rather than go through a trial with discovery (I think he NEEDED to follow through to avoid this specifically), he decided to go through with the purchase. I wonder what the hell they would have found during a trial discovery that made him sink $44B.

But what he's doing now? I don't think it's related to that. I think it might be to help manipulate stocks, as we have seen him do several months back. Maybe he thinks that destroying left-leaning political action saves him in taxes? He destroyed public transportation in California just so people would theoretically purchase more Tesla cars. Nothing is beyond being trampled by Musk if he thinks he can benefit by stumbling over the other side of the corpse.

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[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 29 points 1 year ago

Not only that, it would have been easier and cheaper to just shut the whole thing down after taking ownership. His very public (mainly by his own tweeting) stewardship of Twitter is damaging to his reputation, and the reputation of his other businesses. The reality is, he just is that dumb.

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[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd believe it if I hadn't already heard of Musk being the type to fire workers in his line of sight at pure random simply to fire someone. It apparently got so bad that aids would plan the route he would take to the meetings around having as few victims as possible out in the open.

It would be a smart move for anyone, and he is succeeding to a good extent (they'll just go elsewhere?), but I think that's just a happy accident of his. I feel like he's really just using it as a chew toy so he can feel all big and important with the headlines. If he were being journalistically gray rocked, I wonder what he'd do.

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[-] peter@feddit.uk 31 points 1 year ago

The issue with that argument is... Why? He is a business man, activism generally doesn't effect him, tesla cars are generally liked by left leaning middle class, why would he spend so much money to destroy something?

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[-] blazera@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

he bought it pretty soon after a meeting with Putin, while the Ukraine invasion was fresh and international support was rallying on Twitter. So, blackmail, bribery, buy up Twitter and immediately gut it.

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[-] fearout@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I saw this article posted in another thread and it seems to explain a lot. Not sure how close it is to reality, but it looks like nostalgia is at least a partial reason for this change.

Yep. Fucking nostalgia.

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[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 114 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is a stupid name

It'll be a nightmare to search

Gonna name my company "😃"

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm opening up a rival called "social media." Already, we're on everyone's lips, set to have a userbase spanning half the web.

[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago

There’s a band I heard of called “:(“ and I’ve never been able to find it since

[-] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 32 points 1 year ago
[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago

Wow, thanks! I’m not sure this is even them but it’s a band called :( so I’ll take it!

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[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 25 points 1 year ago

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[-] Deestan@beehaw.org 77 points 1 year ago

"Arr, this ❌ marks where I buried 44 billion doubloons!"

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[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 75 points 1 year ago

If your goal is to reduce cost why would you waste money doing a rebrand.. so dumb

[-] EnderWi99in@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago

I believe his main goal is turning Twitter into something of an "everything" site where he's looking to combine the likes of Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Discord, and Venmo/Paypal into a single service. I don't know if it was his goal when he bought it or if it has any chance in hell of working, but that's something he at least said (while probably drunk) fairly recently.

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[-] figaro 75 points 1 year ago

Was Twitter ever really a left leaning platform in the first place? It pretty much always felt like it was filled with Russian bots and maga shit.

So I guess good job Musk for burning down a shit website? Lol

As a side note, Mastodon is legitimately fantastic. The community there is genuinely nice.

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 71 points 1 year ago

It was left leaning until about 2014. Then it slowly crept farther and farther right wing. Slowly bleeding users who didn't want to deal with the fascist jerks. Slowly converting fence sitters into fascist jerks by normalizing fascism by pretending it was just asking questions, just making edgy jokes, you know the drill. Next, 2016 came. That for me was when the bottom fell out of twitter. The Russian twitter bots were everywhere. And it took twitter way too long to deal with it. I think by that point, the platform was ruined. It was never going to grow meaningfully by attracting new people. It was just going to slowly decay as people looked for their friends and favorite creators on Reddit, Discord, Youtube, or wherever else they went. But that decay would have been slow until Elon tanked it. His efforts have chased off users in droves

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[-] hachyderm@beehaw.org 65 points 1 year ago

This is like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

[-] TerryTPlatypus@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

Shh, shh, let it happen, let it happen. Meanwhile, want some popcorn? I made like 3 tubs worth of it

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[-] fing3r@feddit.de 58 points 1 year ago

STOP CLICKING ON THIS SHIT

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[-] beepnoise@beehaw.org 54 points 1 year ago

Guys, I’m starting to think this Elon guy isn’t as smart as he claims…

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[-] Gacrux@lemm.ee 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

alright now we're gonna have quite a big discussion as to what "x server" means. x11? twitter?

"guys x servers are down!"
"have you checked your .xinitrc? did you start x?"
"whats an x innit racecar? the x servers are down!"
"how do you use x without knowing what an .xinitrc is... oh"

meanwhile reddit gonna rename themselves to "wayland"

[-] Loulou@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 1 year ago

Reddit rebranding to "Y" because that's what we say when they do changes.

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[-] Sina@beehaw.org 47 points 1 year ago

I'm telling you, he has Covid fog.

[-] ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub 35 points 1 year ago

He has a cocaine addiction

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[-] Dan_Rachevaski@beehaw.org 45 points 1 year ago

He got a company and a social media that is remarkable, and recognizable, and even has an action verb related to it, "tweet, to tweet, tweeting".

And he decided to piss on it and create the X app. Adding insult to injury is that it's again, another techy black and white logo. Of course, because that's the silicon valley trend isn't it, black and white clean minimalist corporate logo, no soul, no community, just corporate all along.

[-] roi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 year ago

Mmmm yes. Can’t wait to X about this!

[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 21 points 1 year ago

That's cool and edgy

xXxEloNxXx

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[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 1 year ago

Who wants to tell him about Xorg and their product X11?

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[-] skellener@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago

I think they should go with 💩Shitter - it’s where most people use it anyway.

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[-] thingsiplay@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago

@chiz X is so easy to search in internet. So many results; it gets never boring! Very unique name and brand.

Spez: Write it down, write it down! Let's rename Reddit to Z! Employee: Why Z? Spez: What do you mean why? Does X make any sense to you too? Employee: All right, I should have never questioned you.

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[-] Metaright@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago

Pay $44 billion for a brand

Literally destroy the brand

This is more baffling than accidentally destroying the brand, like he's been doing.

[-] atomic@programming.dev 35 points 1 year ago

It's like he can't destroy his company fast enough😂

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[-] averyminya@beehaw.org 34 points 1 year ago

Space-X, X AE A-12, trying to create a company named X since the 90's...

guys, I think elon musk is obsessed with Speed Racers Racer X. Why else would X be such a prominent motivator for this creature?

Any theories? Deal with the devil made at a crossroads? Or maybe he just was really used to railroad crossing signs as a kid and wants to relive those memories?

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[-] AWildMimicAppears@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago

In a few years the only thing of value remaining of twitter will be the x.com domain

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[-] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

if a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow

Christ, imagine being on the dev team that has to make this happen in a day.

[-] Gacrux@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)


good enough, musk?

edit: wait the actual logo looks basically the same as this but without the orange ring

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[-] doleo@lemmy.one 27 points 1 year ago

idk about you, but when I think of my X, I think of a toxic place filled with hate, that I never want to go to or hear about again. Branding on point.

[-] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 year ago

So. The button you should press if you accidentally open Twitter on your PC.

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[-] freamon@endlesstalk.org 26 points 1 year ago

'Cos it marks the spot where he buried all his treasure, amirite?

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[-] Gnubyte@lemdit.com 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I went and deactivated my twitter accounts today. I got Lemmy and when I do my own servers via my own app, I'll enjoy a twitter alternative again. Edit: Im saying this because my mind went to action not bitching. I think the X rebrand is like a sign of the times and the official "okay twitters dead" moment.

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[-] Aimhere@midwest.social 21 points 1 year ago

I want to know, what are "tweets" and "tweeting" going to be relabeled as?

I can just see conversations like:

"Dude, did you see the latest X from Eminem?" "Yeah, I re-X'd it to all my buds!"

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[-] esaru@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago

This is not what most users signed up for when they signed up on Twitter.

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 year ago
[-] Krapulaolut@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 year ago

EnXittification happening. Let's hope the rest of the users finds their way to fediverse.

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