Good good. That will kill it faster.
Twitter’s rebrand to X may actually be happening soon
Submitted 1 year ago by mastermind@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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squash_squash@lemmy.world 1 year ago
PineapplePartisan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’ve heard of an ex-boyfriend, now meet your ex-social media.
Jeff@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Also that internet edgelords can be successful, if they’re born into wealth.
30isthenew29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Elon Musk is a retard.
nepenthes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Probably be better to refrain from slurs. There are plenty of other, better insults to choose from :)
Caminsky@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The only thing more pathetic than Musk are his fans that would defend him no matter what idiotic thing he says or does.
GreenCrush@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He definitely has that face
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What’s a tweet going to be called? A xeet?
rich8n@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pronounced “skeet”
FrankFrankson@lemmy.world 1 year ago
and when you publish one it’s called “shooting”
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was going for “shit” but skeet works too.
variants@possumpat.io 1 year ago
They are annoying like mosquitos
dopeshark@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We can say then that Elon Musk is full of xeet
fearout@kbin.social 1 year ago
Xit. Pronounced as in Xi Jinping.
DLSchichtl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Probably a yeet, because Musk is an unimaginative child.
garretble@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My friend suggested an “xcrement”
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Watch it still be called a tweet.
poorlydrawnarsenal@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Good luck googling for X
dopeshark@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wasn’t there a recent horror movie called like that?
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lmfao the absolute ego on that guy is something to marvel.
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And it seems his X logo is a blatant ripoff of X.org (and the X Window System).
spoon00@lemm.ee 1 year ago
saucyloggins@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I noticed that too. It’s not even a good logo to steal, it’s always felt old.
AffineConnection@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Much like the X windowing system, Twitter has always been garbage.
embit@feddit.de 1 year ago
Why not make it a black X on a round white background surrounded by red? (/s)
jdf038@mander.xyz 1 year ago
With little arms for the X so it looks like it’s strong or something too right? (Also /s and obligatory fuck nazis)
madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also fuck Nazis for co-opting that beautiful symbol.
creditCrazy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh he’s taking about Nazis um ok … Zips up pants
Zoldyck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Musk is such a man-child. He keeps surprising me, in the most bizarre and negative ways.
oSillyScope@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You shouldn’t be surprised. It’s absolutely true to form for him.
Zoldyck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fair enough.
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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! "
Targox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
pouines@lemm.ee 1 year ago
🔮 Twitter renaming to X and Mastodon renaming to Twitter 🥸
MisterMoo@kbin.social 1 year ago
Thinking “X” is a cool letter is exactly what I’d expect from a middle-aged wannabe edgelord.
xts@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Bardak@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
He lacks the understanding on how WeChat was able to get were it is. Ignoring any Chinese government help they were the default chat app for China therefore on every phone and were in a market without strong electronic payment system. All the other services that WeChat has come from the success of chat and payments.
North America and Europe for better or worse have had credit cards as the standard for electronic payments for decades now. North America uses SMS/iMessage as the default chat service and Europe uses WhatsApp. Twitter is used less than Facebook messager in both ot those markets.
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
There’s no way any company can get the kind of traction WeChat has in China. Apple might come close if they release iMessage across platforms but that will probably never happen in (unless the EU passes some new laws to force it).
FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lmao
stink_pickle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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
BellaDonna@mujico.org 1 year ago
Renamed for the button you press on the browser when you find yourself there.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or something…
rich8n@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What a way to bid farewell to your x-45 billion dollars.
PrinzMegahertz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So instead of tweeting tweets on twitter, you will be x-ing x on x?
madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Triple X if you will.
quortez@kbin.social 1 year ago
Why is he stealing Xorg's logo?
AffineConnection@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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.
alerternate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.)
NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yep, its listed as owned by X Corp on Wikipedia.
igorlogius@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Since i dont think … sugar, spice and everything nice was involved,
this must be what is happening here
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subspaceinterferents@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wait, what?
gk99@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.”
jungekatz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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 !
ericisshort@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
quortez@kbin.social 1 year ago
If there's any company that could actually do that it would be between PayPal and Metabook, not Muskrat. He's not that guy
inkican@kbin.social 1 year ago
What a strange way to say "I have no idea what I'm doing - somebody please stop me."
GreenCrush@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
creditCrazy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Next thing you know he’s gonna make the color palette a red x and black
jerkjaguar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re close I think it black with a white X or gray X
negativeyoda@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Definitely where energy and effort should be allocated to fix twitters problems
defiant@lemm.ee 1 year ago
How many times can Elon shoot himself in the foot with Twitter before it dies
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 1 year ago
He should’ve stuck to space
Ansgar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Image
Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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?
jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
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.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He has been hounding x.com since before the paypal days. This is him finally having his toy.
voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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?
embit@feddit.de 1 year ago
I fell like cleaning my monitor
camr_on@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah why is this screenshot so grimy lol
ninja@hoboninjachicken.com 1 year ago
i was literally reaching for a microfiber cloth
ninja@hoboninjachicken.com 1 year ago
how do you take a screenshot with the specks on your monitor included?