Good good. That will kill it faster.
Twitter’s rebrand to X may actually be happening soon
Submitted 11 months ago by mastermind@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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squash_squash@lemmy.world 11 months ago
PineapplePartisan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’ve heard of an ex-boyfriend, now meet your ex-social media.
Jeff@lemm.ee 11 months 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 11 months ago
Also that internet edgelords can be successful, if they’re born into wealth.
30isthenew29@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Elon Musk is a retard.
nepenthes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Probably be better to refrain from slurs. There are plenty of other, better insults to choose from :)
Caminsky@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
He definitely has that face
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What’s a tweet going to be called? A xeet?
rich8n@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pronounced “skeet”
FrankFrankson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
and when you publish one it’s called “shooting”
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was going for “shit” but skeet works too.
variants@possumpat.io 11 months ago
They are annoying like mosquitos
dopeshark@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We can say then that Elon Musk is full of xeet
fearout@kbin.social 11 months ago
Xit. Pronounced as in Xi Jinping.
DLSchichtl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Probably a yeet, because Musk is an unimaginative child.
garretble@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My friend suggested an “xcrement”
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Watch it still be called a tweet.
poorlydrawnarsenal@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Good luck googling for X
dopeshark@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wasn’t there a recent horror movie called like that?
Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
Lmfao the absolute ego on that guy is something to marvel.
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And it seems his X logo is a blatant ripoff of X.org (and the X Window System).
spoon00@lemm.ee 11 months ago
saucyloggins@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I noticed that too. It’s not even a good logo to steal, it’s always felt old.
AffineConnection@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Much like the X windowing system, Twitter has always been garbage.
embit@feddit.de 11 months ago
Why not make it a black X on a round white background surrounded by red? (/s)
jdf038@mander.xyz 11 months 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 11 months ago
Also fuck Nazis for co-opting that beautiful symbol.
creditCrazy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh he’s taking about Nazis um ok … Zips up pants
Zoldyck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Musk is such a man-child. He keeps surprising me, in the most bizarre and negative ways.
oSillyScope@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You shouldn’t be surprised. It’s absolutely true to form for him.
Zoldyck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fair enough.
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
🔮 Twitter renaming to X and Mastodon renaming to Twitter 🥸
MisterMoo@kbin.social 11 months ago
Thinking “X” is a cool letter is exactly what I’d expect from a middle-aged wannabe edgelord.
xts@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
lmao
stink_pickle@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
Renamed for the button you press on the browser when you find yourself there.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or something…
rich8n@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What a way to bid farewell to your x-45 billion dollars.
PrinzMegahertz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So instead of tweeting tweets on twitter, you will be x-ing x on x?
madcaesar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Triple X if you will.
quortez@kbin.social 11 months ago
Why is he stealing Xorg's logo?
AffineConnection@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Yep, its listed as owned by X Corp on Wikipedia.
igorlogius@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
Wait, what?
gk99@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
What a strange way to say "I have no idea what I'm doing - somebody please stop me."
GreenCrush@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
Next thing you know he’s gonna make the color palette a red x and black
jerkjaguar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re close I think it black with a white X or gray X
negativeyoda@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Definitely where energy and effort should be allocated to fix twitters problems
defiant@lemm.ee 11 months ago
How many times can Elon shoot himself in the foot with Twitter before it dies
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 11 months ago
He should’ve stuck to space
Ansgar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Image
Buffalox@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
He has been hounding x.com since before the paypal days. This is him finally having his toy.
voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
I fell like cleaning my monitor
camr_on@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah why is this screenshot so grimy lol
ninja@hoboninjachicken.com 11 months ago
i was literally reaching for a microfiber cloth
ninja@hoboninjachicken.com 11 months ago
how do you take a screenshot with the specks on your monitor included?