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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.
Thinking “X” is a cool letter is exactly what I’d expect from a middle-aged wannabe edgelord.
🔮 Twitter renaming to X and Mastodon renaming to Twitter 🥸
He may change the name, but he’s still a twit.
What a dumbass. Let’s throw out all the well-known brand recognition we paid for and then spend millions of dollars we don’t have on a new name and logo.
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?
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.
I feel like cleaning my monitor
i was literally reaching for a microfiber cloth
Why not make it a black X on a round white background surrounded by red? (/s)
With little arms for the X so it looks like it’s strong or something too right? (Also /s and obligatory fuck nazis)
Also fuck Nazis for co-opting that beautiful symbol.
Wow, first time on Lemmy and already see someone calling the Hakenkreuz beautiful…
I’m not sure how to take this comment?
Good good. That will kill it faster.
While I share your sentiment completely, I have a bad feeling that this is the beginning of something bigger. AFAIK the Twitter purchase was Musk’s first venture into building an everything app, and he already owns x.com. I think this is one of the first steps.
I don’t think we should worry about an app we will never use. :)
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.
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.
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).
Musk is such a man-child. He keeps surprising me, in the most bizarre and negative ways.
You shouldn’t be surprised. It’s absolutely true to form for him.
Yikes
Xikes*
Xixes
Xixex
Xxx
Wait…too far
X
No such thing as too far.
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.
How many times can Elon shoot himself in the foot with Twitter before it dies
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.)
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! "
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.
Not when he does and says a remarkable stupid thing about once a month. I imagine it’s the same reason we shouldn’t mention mass murderers by name
