“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 1 year ago by mastermind@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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nailbitrbatterylickr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ultimate_question@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Why not just go ahead and call it X-crement?
ArugulaZ@kbin.social 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
It’s called X now.… proceeds to prompt “log in to twitter”.
This is becoming a branding shit show.
Szymon@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Musk doesn’t seem to understand the concept of a developmental environment prior to a production launch.
ours@lemmy.film 1 year ago
TDD: Tantrum Driven Development
disasterpiece@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
And the tweet button is still right there in blue.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Maybe he’s hoping that when people click X to close the ads, he’ll get paid.
thorcik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do the “twitter videos” become “x videos” now?
joelthelion@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
instead of tweet you now xcrete
lando55@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pretty sure that was always the case
chrizbie@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
is there a way to block all elon musk and twitter news?
TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Problem. I have gone to Twitter and am clicking the X but it won’t close.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Twitter now equals broken image icon.
BustlingChungus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Guess i’ll now just call it “The company formerly known as Twitter” 🤷🏻♂️
Unaware7013@kbin.social 1 year ago
I'm normally against dead naming, but I think I'll make an exception for musk.
RekcuffuckeR@feddit.de 1 year ago
(E)x-Twitter
hdnsmbt@feddit.de 1 year ago
TCFKAT does have a nice ring to it.
dx1@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bold of you to assume Twitter has test environment. Musky probably decommissioned it for cost cutting.
bluesydney@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Isn’t an “X” how illiterate people signed their name?
sci@feddit.nl 1 year ago
It’s also how you close the window/app
codiefz@feddit.de 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Calling it a “plan” is quite generous.
Pattern@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
What will happen next?! The Logo is really similar to x.org or their X Window System.
Enpeze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Trademark, not copyright.
a_hungry_rat@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Yeah the conspiracy theory that he’s out to destroy it seems to be real.
yata@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
now i get where the name spacex comes from. it’s the space version of musk’s x company…
hdnsmbt@feddit.de 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Move fast and fuck it all up
WiredSlumber@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If we lived in meritocracy, Elon would be living in his moms basement instead of being a billionaire.
gotnuffin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Whoever is still there is going to call a tweet a tweet and X, Twitter.
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 1 year ago
Same for Facebook with Meta or Google with Alphabet. Stupid generic parent company names.
andallthat@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Damn, their brand guidelines still uses the old logo, his designers probably didn’t have a say.
sonovebitch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
X Not Gon’ Give It To Ya
tider06@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s pronounced “ten” right?
Khost@kbin.social 1 year ago
Elon is genuinely useless
li10@feddit.uk 1 year 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 1 year ago
I fully expect people to still be calling it twitter for a long time.
ArugulaZ@kbin.social 1 year ago
I call it "irrelevant."
notapantsday@feddit.de 1 year 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 1 year ago
Yeah just like Meta will allways be Facebook for me
LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Brand X, Brand X, it’s simple and plain…
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Decimit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You just nailed Elons personality.