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The other stuff didn't bother people enough to leave, but rebranding? That's the step too far. Anyway Mastodon usage has fluctuated a good amount over the last few months so I don't think that's a good metric for people fleeing Twitter, or should I say X (what a terrible name).
Twitter's value was in its branding as the case with any ubiquitous product. There was zero reason to change it other than to further damage the entity. Fine with me Elon, go ahead and kill it, one more failed corporate driven media site. We don't need any of them.
Everybody has a breaking point, right? This could have been the breaking point for many people.
I'm looking at this as “various little breaking points” some very trivial, but when taken as a whole, could break someone's tolerance, causing someone to be an eX-user.
Something that literally makes no difference, like a name change?
No difference to you. If indeed people left because of that then it made a difference by definition.
There's a reason McDonald's isn't called Kroc's.
If McDonald’s changed their name it works make no difference at this stage.
I don't think you understand how important branding is.
https://klintmarketing.com/35-rebranding-fails/
I do, but it’s irrelevant when a company has 500 million users.
Those examples I showed you are companies the size of Twitter. It affected sales in a major way. Many of them had to walk it back.