Twitter to ditch bird logo, Musk says : worldnews

[-] airdi1@lemmy.world 116 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Musk think the problem is the logo. Only if he knew, the logo is fine it is him that people dont like.

[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 88 points 1 year ago

The logo has been very successful in branding the company, as well as the companion verb "tweet". I think a company has reached peak when its name or something connected is used as an action verb. If he had taken over McDs he'd be tossing out the arches and even Big Mac with claims that they are the problem.

Twitter may have not been in great shape financially when he took over, but at least it had somewhat of an image. Musk is the contractor you called to fix a leak in the roof, and he burns the house down. He fixed the leak alright.

[-] root@socialmedia.fail 17 points 1 year ago

Twitter was doing fine financially before Musk bought it. He paid more than twice what it was worth and he used loans to do it, that's what this is all about.

[-] atomWood@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Twitter has never really been a financially viable company. They were losing money year after year. That’s not what I would call financially stable. There’s a reason they did everything they could to force Musk to buy it when he tried to back out.

[-] root@socialmedia.fail 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah there is a reason, the reason is because his dumbass offered more than twice what the company was worth.

Lots of tech companies operate at slightly under profitability. They were doing fine.

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[-] blivet@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, the name of the company, the logo, and the idea of “tweets” are all a charming evocation of a world filled with brief messages. Twitter has problems, but branding isn’t one of them.

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[-] sensibilidades@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

What's the new word for microblogging on X corp? "Musk x-ed this morning that ..."

[-] DreamerOfImprobableDreams@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Funny, because "x-ing out" is what I do whenever I accidentally click on a twitter link nowadays!

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly, I would drop the McDonald’s clown. He is weird and some children and even adults are uneasy or outright scared of him.

[-] RippleEffect@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Honestly the clown has more or less been dropped. I hardly see him anywhere.

[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They already dropped him for basically that reason back in 2016.

https://www.the-sun.com/money/3419072/why-mcdonalds-get-rid-ronald-mcdonald/

[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

As said, Ronald disappeared a while ago for other reasons, but along with that McD became more of a "modern" look and got away from catering to the family at a kid's level. They still changed successfully. My point was that Musk would throw everything out and do something totally not designed to bring people to eat there, and then blame everyone but himself. His most successful work seems to be when he lets other run the show, and his real problems started when he forgot that and tried to be front and center on everything without anyone filtering his ideas and verbal thoughts. Elon Musk a decade back would now have a different image had he just hired and listened to a good PR person.

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[-] Gregorech@lemmy.world 101 points 1 year ago

He wants to replace it with an X, an x with bent arms in a nice red and white background people will love that it'll just pop.

[-] Aurix@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Many social apps use blue. Having your suggested colour applied would make sure Twitter is supremely above the others.

[-] Gregorech@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

He needs to buy Uber next....

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[-] Ennuigo@lemm.ee 76 points 1 year ago

What is with this guy and his hardon for adding “X” to everything? He’s like a teenager that thinks that adding flame decals to anything makes them “cooler”.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 year ago

It's halfway to a swastika.

[-] instamat@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

He’s obsessed with it. His version of PayPal before he merged with the company that became PayPal was x.com and everyone hated it.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Teslax - Ask your pharmacist today what Teslax can do for you.

[-] Default_Defect@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Teslax gives you erectile dysfunction.

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[-] glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago

The x stands for xtremely shitty.

[-] Hextic@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Literally stuck in the 90s.

[-] taylus@lemmy.ml 66 points 1 year ago

I’m so glad we got this instead of solving global warming

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[-] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 58 points 1 year ago

Getting rid of the last remaining identifiable part of the company. Genius move.

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[-] gosling@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

Elon is a genius! He removed the bird, symbolizing the loss of freedom for its user and his company's inability to soar to great heights.

The bird leaving indicates an impeding catastrophe about to hit his company and the new symbol "X" is just as clever, because that's the sign people will click on when they go uninstall the app. Soon, the relationship between Twitter and its users will be nonexistent, just like Musk and his "X" wives

[-] pizza_rolls@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

X is closer to a swastika than a bird so it fits

The next update to the logo will be adding 4 more lines...

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[-] Daydreamer@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 year ago

It is entirely possible that he just wrecks companies for fun.

[-] 30isthenew29@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

This is just what billionaires do nowadays.

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[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago

I've been using a moniker containing two Xs for over two decades. Speaking on behalf of my early-20s self, how fucking edgy do you believe yourself to be as one of the world's richest persons embracing a single letter as the epitome of logos to represent your umbrella corporation? Hire a branding team, you pathetically dull gen-x neckbeard edgelord manchild.

Seriously, the '90s called a they want their X back.

[-] xSPYXEx@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Elon is the kind of guy who picked a goofy xbox gamertag when he was a kid and never stopped using it. I wouldn't know.

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[-] Ducks@ducks.dev 10 points 1 year ago

He doesn't need a branding team, he's too smart for that. That's why he is also sourcing a logo from the Twitter community. Because ~~billionaires~~ geniuses don't pay for anything.

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[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 year ago

Pay $44 billion for a well known and popular company, ditch the name and the logo for something totally new and unknown.

So smart.

[-] 30isthenew29@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

It’s beyond our thinking. Minimum above 300 IQ needed to understand this.

[-] dq9@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Another unnecessary bandaid to Elon's massive problems. I'd say he should quit while he's behind, but I love watching him fail.

[-] appel@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

That man's got no god damn sense.

[-] DarthYoshiBoy@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

I choose to believe he's just doing this for memes at this point. I can't accept humans are capable of these depths through inadvertent action, it's just too dumb.

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Do we need to stop calling them tweets then?

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 20 points 1 year ago

The new word will be 'twats', after it's owner

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Years ago I used the word "twat" around my girlfriend and she said "you're pronouncing that wrong". WTF? I thought she was going to tell me to pronounce it like the English do ("twatt" instead of "twott") but she said it was actually pronounced "twah" - without the t on the end. Turns out she thought people were trying to use the French word toit. No idea why she thought people were going around calling each other roofs.