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Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 years ago by mastermind@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

Guys the Android app is still called Twitter.

What...

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[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This has been his plan since a long time ago, he's just following up on it now https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/05/tech/everything-app-x-musk-china-wechat-learnings-intl-hnk/index.html

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[–] codiefz@feddit.de 26 points 2 years 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.

[–] Metans@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks like the logo for a hair salon or fashion magazine or something lol

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[–] Deeleres@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What will happen next?! The Logo is really similar to x.org or their X Window System.

[–] Enpeze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Twitter X doesn't have enough Xs in it. I vote to rename Twitter X to T Wixxer, at least here in Germany.

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[–] AndreTelevise@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

The weird thing is that x.com sometimes loads into Twitter and sometimes doesn't, which shows that there's really no management in all of this.

[–] baked_tea@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lmao the favicon is still a bird

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[–] a_hungry_rat@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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?

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[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago

𝕏

It’s one of the hollow letters used in math.

Basically what I’m saying is math should sue him.

[–] HeavenAndHell@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] MelancholikhPatata@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] WheelcharArtist@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

now i get where the name spacex comes from. it's the space version of musk's x company...

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[–] fujiwood@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How am I supposed to make a filter to block "X"? I know Lemmy doesn't support it yet but on Boost I could add filters to block certain posts with words/names.

I'm hoping that Boost for Lemmy will have this feature but my first question still stands. Blocking Twitter was easy because it was specific. How am I supposed to block a letter? I

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[–] tider06@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's pronounced "ten" right?

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Haven't updated their favicon yet lmao nice work.

[–] nero@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

They’ve updated literally nothing except the icon as far as i can see.

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[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago (6 children)

When it comes to billionaires, never attribute to stupidity which can be adequately explained by malice.

I'm finding it hard to believe these billionaires are legitimately just making that poor of decisions that happen to be causing significant destruction to major social media platforms.

But then again, elon's kid's name is a great counter example. How the fuck am I not a gazillionaire? Oh right, no family emerald mine.

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[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

TWITTER IS NOW X.ORG

THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP LADS

ITS HAPPENING

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[–] Gearheart@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This seems like it's a ploy just to get attention and traffic. Seems that it's working as I'm seeing it in all the news sites.

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[–] demonquark@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why replace twitter though? Do you what facebook did with threads. Launch a new app and allow existing twitter users to automatically onboard.

People hate having major changes hoisted on them. See reddit.

[–] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

I like how the suggestion in the comments is 10x better and more effective than what the multi billion dollar company went for

[–] HamDenSorte@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn, their brand guidelines still uses the old logo, his designers probably didn't have a say.

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[–] gotnuffin@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Whoever is still there is going to call a tweet a tweet and X, Twitter.

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Twitter now equals broken image icon.

[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

I'd love it if he extra fucks up and Jack Dorsey somehow gets the Twitter name back for bluesky

[–] Kwaker76@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just wait for Musky to try and start suing people for using anything with "X" in the title/name.

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