“We’re expect folks will go along and stop referring to ‘tweeting’ and go with the more brand appropriate term of ‘x-creting’ from now on.” Musk said before adding, "‘X-cretions’ and ‘x-creted’ are encouraged too.
Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears
Submitted 11 months ago by mastermind@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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nailbitrbatterylickr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ultimate_question@lemmy.world 11 months ago
idk if you came up with this but I expect to see this joke a bunch more in the coming days lol
Iwasondigg@lemmy.one 11 months ago
The fact that I don’t know if this is real or a joke tells you how ridiculous Musk has become.
magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 11 months ago
Why not just go ahead and call it X-crement?
ArugulaZ@kbin.social 11 months ago
You'll remember that name, because the moment the site appears, you'll click the little X on the top right corner of your computer screen to get rid of it.
sab@kbin.social 11 months ago
I took it for a spin.
- x.com
- Do you want to sign in with Google? -> press X
- Sign in on Twitter -> press X
- 404 page not found -> press X on tab
It's anything but inconsistent.
coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s called X now.… proceeds to prompt “log in to twitter”.
This is becoming a branding shit show.
Szymon@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Musk doesn’t seem to understand the concept of a developmental environment prior to a production launch.
ours@lemmy.film 11 months ago
TDD: Tantrum Driven Development
disasterpiece@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s ok, at least it’s just a website. Would be different if it was something like… oh idk… a car that people trust with their lives to drive itself. Or even a massive rocket carrying astronauts and valuable cargo.
average650@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And the tweet button is still right there in blue.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Maybe he’s hoping that when people click X to close the ads, he’ll get paid.
thorcik@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Do the “twitter videos” become “x videos” now?
joelthelion@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All of this is just noise designed to keep us talking about the site. You could call it bad advertising. We should stop feeding the troll.
UnknownQuantity@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So let me get this straight. Musk bought Twitter for 44 billion, fired most of the staff, destroyed bunch of features and functionality, scared advertisers away and now changed the brand’s name. Wouldn’t it be less hassle to just start a platform and pay people $100 each as a sign up bonus?
wjrii@kbin.social 11 months ago
That's absurd! Assuming 4 billion in actual startup costs, at the purchase price they could only afford to do that for...
four hundred million people. LOL.
Jesus this was a dumb transaction.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just for perspective, the U.S. population is 300 million. Add on the 67 million population of the UK and you still have plenty of change left over.
Jesus, this was a stupid decision.
Thintalle@feddit.de 11 months ago
instead of tweet you now xcrete
lando55@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pretty sure that was always the case
chrizbie@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
is there a way to block all elon musk and twitter news?
TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Someone made an extension to do just that. It blurs out all news about billionaires.
I can’t remember what it’s called, though.
AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 11 months ago
Buy and then kill one of most recognizable brands of the early 21st century. Elon truly is the genius he and his bootlickers believe him to be.
Ferris@discuss.online 11 months ago
Problem. I have gone to Twitter and am clicking the X but it won’t close.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Twitter now equals broken image icon.
BustlingChungus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Guess i’ll now just call it “The company formerly known as Twitter” 🤷🏻♂️
Unaware7013@kbin.social 11 months ago
I'm normally against dead naming, but I think I'll make an exception for musk.
RekcuffuckeR@feddit.de 11 months ago
(E)x-Twitter
hdnsmbt@feddit.de 11 months ago
TCFKAT does have a nice ring to it.
dx1@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Go to twitter.com, it goes “X” and then “Sign in to Twitter”.
You missed a spot there Elon. You know what we industry professionals do - it’s called a “design process”. You:
- Mock up the way you want it to look
- Make it look that way
- Then you push it live.
nuke@yah.lol 11 months ago
TheBat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bold of you to assume Twitter has test environment. Musky probably decommissioned it for cost cutting.
bluesydney@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Isn’t an “X” how illiterate people signed their name?
sci@feddit.nl 11 months ago
It’s also how you close the window/app
codiefz@feddit.de 11 months ago
Years of brand recognition down the drain. Twitter was such a big part of our culture that you literarily have movies, tv shows, music promoting it indirectly.
Less than 1% of Twitter users signed up for blue. Elon, nobody in its right mind wants your WeChat clone.
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 11 months ago
This has been his plan since a long time ago, he’s just following up on it now edition.cnn.com/2022/10/05/tech/…/index.html
ericisshort@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But it goes back much further than that. Musk wanted to rebrand PayPal X before they ousted him as CEO more than 20 years ago. He is so proud that he bought this domain in the 90s that he just keeps trying to make it a thing despite the inherent ambiguity.
NinjaAssassinKitty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Calling it a “plan” is quite generous.
Pattern@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is what has me convinced that this whole thing isn’t 4D chess to eliminate Twitter as a tool of left wing speech and organizing. He loves the whole “X” concept. Rebranding Twitter to X feels too authentic to be a cynical destruction of the platform.
Deeleres@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
What will happen next?! The Logo is really similar to x.org or their X Window System.
Enpeze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
It really isn’t. It’s an X. There’s not much to it.
It’s a shit name, it’s a shit logo, it’s a shit platform. But it’s far from a copyright infringement. Especially because no-one will confuse the cesspool named Twitter X with a window manager for unix systems
froh42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Twitter X doesn’t have enough Xs in it. I vote to rename Twitter X to T Wixxer, at least here in Germany.
voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Trademark, not copyright.
a_hungry_rat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is wild, a significant percentage of Twitter’s value was its brand, and this guy has just slapped an X on it and changed the colour scheme to dark mode. Do people actually still use Twitter?
paintbucketholder@lemmy.world 11 months ago
- 80 percent of the workforce fired -> maintenance issues crowd up
- server bills went unpaid -> service became flaky
- office bills went unpaid ->Twitter got evicted from many of its offices
- Nazis, white supremacists, racists, white nationalists, xenophobes, homophobes and other trash back on service -> many regular users left the platform
- journalists and reporters got banned and/or harassed -> many of them left the platform
- public news services got harassed and branded as state owned media -> many of them left the platform
- blue checkmarks (including many of the unbanned Nazis and racists) were promoted to the top -> many regular users left the platform
The brand name and the logo were literally the only thing Musk had left from his purchase.
Makes sense that he’s out to destroy those as well.
abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah the conspiracy theory that he’s out to destroy it seems to be real.
yata@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
journalists and reporters got banned and/or harassed -> many of them left the platform public news services got harassed and branded as state owned media -> many of them left the platform
Unfortunately not enough of those have left yet. News and journalism was the backbone of what made twitter big back in the day, and they still constitute a huge part of the traffic that keeps it alive today.
They seem to be among the last to recognise what associating yourself with Musks brand does for your own brand.
MelancholikhPatata@kbin.social 11 months ago
okay but why in the world would he rename it, what could he possibly gain from doing it? Twitter was going to die either ways but it seems Elon is getting impatient and wants to see it dead sooner
ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 11 months ago
He wants to transform it into the "Everything" app. That's why he's pushing hard on the video platform side of things.
sab@kbin.social 11 months ago
What do you do when you can't make money off your microblog? Subtly change it into a banking app and charge wild interest rates. Your users won't know what stuck them.
WheelcharArtist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
now i get where the name spacex comes from. it’s the space version of musk’s x company…
hdnsmbt@feddit.de 11 months ago
X
Happening now
Join Twitter today.
But how do I join X? You know, the new thing supposedly currently happening? Why would I join boring old twitter now that X is happening?
Genius at work.
HeavenAndHell@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Even the new name implementation feels half-assed. It still says Twitter everywhere you go on the website in words. Like why not wait until you’re fully ready to make the change?
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Move fast and fuck it all up
WiredSlumber@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If we lived in meritocracy, Elon would be living in his moms basement instead of being a billionaire.
gotnuffin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Whoever is still there is going to call a tweet a tweet and X, Twitter.
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 11 months ago
Same for Facebook with Meta or Google with Alphabet. Stupid generic parent company names.
andallthat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This seems different, though. Google and Facebook still exist, with their respective logos as part of a parent company that mostly nobody, except for investors, should really care about. Maybe this is what will end up happening here as well, as Elon is sadly famous for saying outrageous things and then backtrack on them, change his mind or just never mention them again, but the way it’s been communicated Twitter and the bird logo are just going away completely.
HamDenSorte@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Damn, their brand guidelines still uses the old logo, his designers probably didn’t have a say.
sonovebitch@lemmy.world 11 months ago
X Not Gon’ Give It To Ya
tider06@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s pronounced “ten” right?
Khost@kbin.social 11 months ago
Elon is genuinely useless
li10@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Such a genuinely shit name.
I’m not even one of the rabid Musk haters, but it’s just an absolutely dreadful name that a 10 year old thinks is cool…
TheHangedMan@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I fully expect people to still be calling it twitter for a long time.
ArugulaZ@kbin.social 11 months ago
I call it "irrelevant."
notapantsday@feddit.de 11 months ago
That’s because it’s an established brand with a huge value to it. Everyone knows twitter. Only an idiot would throw that away.
Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Yeah just like Meta will allways be Facebook for me
LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I bet you all next he will rebrand some of his other companies as ‘S’ (SpaceX?) and ‘E’ (??) just to be CEO of SEX. This man is so extremely childish.
He already has done it for Tesla models: S, 3, X, Y
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
Brand X, Brand X, it’s simple and plain…
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Decimit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You just nailed Elons personality.