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Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo. Elon Musk, who owns the transformed social media site, began signaling the change early Sunday morning with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, “and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”
Roundcat ( @Roundcat@kbin.social ) 31•1 year agoAnd yet every journalist, youtuber, podcaster or creator complaining about it will do everything in their power to find an excuse not to leave.
Big P ( @peter@feddit.uk ) 2•1 year agoBecause that’s still where all the people are
Roundcat ( @Roundcat@kbin.social ) 9•1 year agoI rest my case
lemonflavoured ( @lemonflavoured@kbin.social ) 2•1 year agoFor now.
brothershamus ( @brothershamus@kbin.social ) 2•1 year agoOkay then
trex ( @trex@kbin.social ) 1•1 year agoChicken and egg problem.
dowath ( @dowath@kbin.social ) 30•1 year agoThe twitter branding was one of the few things actually going for it. Oh look a cute birdie, oh look the house is a birdhouse! GET IT!
Now it’s, an X? A meaningless X? With a birdhouse home icon and bird-related words everywhere?
muse ( @muse@kbin.social ) 15•1 year agoIt looks close enough like a swastika that he can sell merch easier to his fanbase. Armband sales are gonna go through the roof
Ragnell ( @Ragnell@kbin.social ) 10•1 year agoHe killed the blue canary in the outlet by the light switch. Where is the birdhouse in our soul now?
fartsinger ( @fartsinger@kbin.social ) 2•11 months agoOmg, it’s “outlet by the lightswitch!” I’ve been trying to decipher that line for years!
Wxnzxn ( @Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year agoAs has been pointed out elsewhere on the net, the Twitter branding was the most valuable part besides the already existing userbase. Having “tweeting” and as a verb in everyday English has been a godsend marketing specialists can only dream of and it has become so prevalent in news and journalism, it’s both hilarious and depressing.
Elon is really working to make the dream of mainstream Mastodon and a big fediverse a reality.
kimagure ( @kimagure@kbin.social ) 1•11 months agoNah, people will move to Threads or Blusky not Mastodon.
dowath ( @dowath@kbin.social ) 1•11 months agostart tootin’ everyone lets make it catch on…
roguetrick ( @roguetrick@kbin.social ) 27•1 year agoWhat, is he trying to ensure his new product is entirely branded as “shit”? I am amazed. Usually you rebrand to get away from something the previous direction was doing. Considering he was still operating on the goodwill from the previous direction while actively tanking the platform, this is astounding.
MxM111 ( @MxM111@kbin.social ) 19•1 year agoClick X to go to Twitter. No the other X - you just closed the window.
_haha_oh_wow_ ( @_haha_oh_wow_@kbin.social ) 12•1 year agoClosing the window seems like a better choice, let’s call it a happy accident.
Nicenightforawalk ( @Nicenightforawalk@kbin.social ) 17•1 year agoXtinct is what’s going to happen
ChaosOnion ( @ChaosOnion@kbin.social ) 16•1 year agoHe scared off a large portion of developers, killed third party clients, destroyed validated users via monetization, let bad actors back onto the platform, and thrown away iconic branding for edge lord bullshit. Manchurian CEO.
Frz ( @Frz@lemm.ee ) 4•1 year agoI feel at this point it would’ve made more sense to just build his own social media platform from scratch. What he’s doing is like spending billions to buy a specific used car, only to promptly replace every single part of it and throw the existing parts away. I mean sure, but then why not just buy a new car to begin with?
Talaraine ( @Talaraine@kbin.social ) 3•1 year agoB/C they made him Big Mad. He’s enjoying this.
ChrisLicht ( @ChrisLicht@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year agoHis costs of hiring, retention, RFP-bidding, and regulatory compliance are all going up at his other businesses.
And, his employees at those other businesses no longer think he’s a genius, which might be worse. Morale is going to be a serious issue.
Elon will be sent to pasture at all of his investments by the end of the decade. The cost of doing business with him is going to become too high.
crowsby ( @crowsby@kbin.social ) 1•1 year agoDoubtlessly true, but by the same token I suspect they’re running better than ever without Elon around to “help”. Their employees certainly seem to think so.
Staark ( @Staark@kbin.social ) 12•1 year agoMusk is one of the biggest cretins I have ever witnessed. Why is he destroying an easily identified, well known brand logo and replacing it with an X?
I wonder what the equivalent to a “tweet” is going to be.
sab ( @sab@kbin.social ) 14•1 year agoThey really need to be referred to as xits, with people xitting all over the place. There’s a solid argument to be made that the platform has been full of xit for a while now, actually.
eggest ( @eggest@kbin.social ) 12•1 year agoHe’s already said tweets will now be known as X’s.
Great isn’t it?
“Hey, have you seen Obama’s ex?”
brothershamus ( @brothershamus@kbin.social ) 4•1 year agoI’m gonna x about this.
FaceDeer ( @FaceDeer@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago“Sending an X”, which can be abbreviated to “sex.”
EnderWi99in ( @EnderWi99in@kbin.social ) 4•1 year agoBecause he’s obsessed with bringing back his old brand and turning Twitter into a social instant payment Paypal/Twitter hybrid.
Sinnerman ( @Sinnerman@kbin.social ) 2•1 year agoPossibly relevant background: https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wants-to-relive-his-start
TingoTenga ( @TingoTenga@kbin.social ) 11•1 year agoI have a hard time imagining that a letter individually considered, with only minimal stylization, will not have lots of issues for being protected and defended as a trademark.
FaceDeer ( @FaceDeer@kbin.social ) 6•1 year agoAlso, how do you Google something like this?
brothershamus ( @brothershamus@kbin.social ) 10•1 year agoCue marketing professors the world over, having fits over what “branding” is and what one should never, ever do with it.
Seriously that meme about "I thought he was a genius because I don’t know about rockets . . " is just more real-life every day. Your roll, Tesla.
SpaceMonk ( @SpaceMonk@kbin.social ) 10•1 year agoI know these articles get made but they don’t have to get posted.
D-ISS-O-CIA-TED ( @D-ISS-O-CIA-TED@kbin.social ) 9•1 year agoI’d like to see more news about tech, and less news about social media
Xeelee ( @Xeelee@kbin.social ) 9•11 months agoBuy one of the most recognisable brands on the planet and then just toss it overboard and replace it with something totally bland. Only a true business genius could come up with an idea like that.
FfaerieOxide ( @FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ) 4•1 year agoYeah, but for a little while at least he’ll have an X that hasn’t left him.
Gutotito ( @Gutotito@kbin.social ) 9•1 year agoIsn’t that the old Xerox logo?
Untitled_Pribor ( @Untitled_Pribor@kbin.social ) 3•1 year agoLooks more like x.org’s logo, just without the ring
lemmyng ( @lemmyng@beehaw.org ) 9•1 year agoThat logo looks an awful lot like the X Window System one.
LineNoise ( @LineNoise@kbin.social ) 7•1 year agoIt’s the X from AGFA Monotype Special Alphabets 4.
https://catalog.monotype.com/font/monotype/special-alphabets/4
brothershamus ( @brothershamus@kbin.social ) 3•1 year agoperchance is that copyrighted?
Just because. Y’know. That would be high-larious.
LChitman ( @LChitman@kbin.social ) 5•1 year agoHas anybody considered that Musk could be engaging in a Trading Places style billionaire competition, wherein the players try and trash their multi-billion dollar tech company faster than the others?
XTornado ( @XTornado@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year agoOk but who are the others like I know about Reddit but who else?
LChitman ( @LChitman@kbin.social ) 1•1 year agoNot sure, the other big companies have lots of individual issues and scandals but Twitter is way ahead, and it seems like there is something new every week. Musk must be winning so far.
xc2215x ( @xc2215x@kbin.social ) 4•1 year agoThis seems like an Elon decision that he likes not one that is good for the site.
brothershamus ( @brothershamus@kbin.social ) 4•1 year agoAs opposed to? :D