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[–] li10@feddit.uk 286 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Such a genuinely shit name.

I’m not even one of the rabid Musk haters, but it’s just an absolutely dreadful name that a 10 year old thinks is cool…

[–] TheHangedMan@feddit.uk 82 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I fully expect people to still be calling it twitter for a long time.

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 81 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] notapantsday@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's because it's an established brand with a huge value to it. Everyone knows twitter. Only an idiot would throw that away.

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[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

I bet you all next he will rebrand some of his other companies as ‘S’ (SpaceX?) and ‘E’ (??) just to be CEO of SEX. This man is so extremely childish.

He already has done it for Tesla models: S, 3, X, Y

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[–] nailbitrbatterylickr@lemmy.world 271 points 1 year ago (5 children)

"We're expect folks will go along and stop referring to 'tweeting' and go with the more brand appropriate term of 'x-creting' from now on." Musk said before adding, "'X-cretions' and 'x-creted' are encouraged too.

[–] Iwasondigg@lemmy.one 116 points 1 year ago

The fact that I don't know if this is real or a joke tells you how ridiculous Musk has become.

[–] ultimate_question@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

idk if you came up with this but I expect to see this joke a bunch more in the coming days lol

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[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 194 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'll remember that name, because the moment the site appears, you'll click the little X on the top right corner of your computer screen to get rid of it.

[–] sab@kbin.social 81 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I took it for a spin.

  1. x.com
  2. Do you want to sign in with Google? -> press X
  3. Sign in on Twitter -> press X
  4. 404 page not found -> press X on tab

It's anything but inconsistent.

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[–] coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 182 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It’s called X now.… proceeds to prompt “log in to twitter”.

This is becoming a branding shit show.

[–] Szymon@lemmy.ca 95 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Musk doesn't seem to understand the concept of a developmental environment prior to a production launch.

[–] ours@lemmy.film 57 points 1 year ago

TDD: Tantrum Driven Development

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[–] average650@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

And the tweet button is still right there in blue.

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[–] thorcik@lemmy.world 173 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do the "twitter videos" become "x videos" now?

[–] FrankFrankson@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They suspended xvideos.com's account and the rumor is they are considering calling the videos on their platform xvideos... I REALLY REALLY want this to happen.

[–] homura1650@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I want to see the ensuing trademark lawsuit from the owners of xvideo.com

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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 145 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Brilliant move by Musk. 'X' has long been identified as the universal symbol for closing out of an application. Hopefully with this move even more people will permanently close out of Twitter and move on so I don't have to read so many dumb news stories where the lazy journalist uses a few random tweets as their "source" for the headline.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Let's also not forget it's adult connotations, things are rated "X" for a reason 😅

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[–] UnknownQuantity@lemmy.world 124 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So let me get this straight. Musk bought Twitter for 44 billion, fired most of the staff, destroyed bunch of features and functionality, scared advertisers away and now changed the brand's name. Wouldn't it be less hassle to just start a platform and pay people $100 each as a sign up bonus?

[–] wjrii@kbin.social 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's absurd! Assuming 4 billion in actual startup costs, at the purchase price they could only afford to do that for...

four hundred million people. LOL.

Jesus this was a dumb transaction.

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[–] Master@lemmy.world 115 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My contribution to this new logo.

[–] Macaque@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I sure everyone will steal this and posted it on X as if they thought of it.

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[–] joelthelion@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago (5 children)

All of this is just noise designed to keep us talking about the site. You could call it bad advertising. We should stop feeding the troll.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 93 points 1 year ago

Hahaha. Wow is this ever stupid. And getting stupider by the second.

[–] dx1@lemmy.world 93 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Go to twitter.com, it goes "X" and then "Sign in to Twitter".

You missed a spot there Elon. You know what we industry professionals do - it's called a "design process". You:

  • Mock up the way you want it to look
  • Make it look that way
  • Then you push it live.
[–] nuke@yah.lol 36 points 1 year ago
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[–] andmonad@lemmy.world 92 points 1 year ago

what a fucking moron

[–] Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago

This is important because the thing everyone hated about Twitter was definitely the logo. Should have done this much sooner. High priority stuff.

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 77 points 1 year ago (9 children)

No idea how people are still buying and riding in this guy's cars after seeing how badly he runs a website.

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[–] erik1984@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] tcely@fosstodon.org 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I really want X.org to challenge this move in court and win!

@mastermind

[–] thehatfox@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago

Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears

I thought the the new logo was the X11 logo at first, they are bit similar.

Also a bit ironic seeing as Musk wants ~~Twitter~~ X to be an "everything app", while X11's cruft and bloated featureset have led to it being replaced by Wayland.

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[–] Ferris@discuss.online 70 points 1 year ago

Problem. I have gone to Twitter and am clicking the X but it won't close.

[–] Thintalle@feddit.de 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

instead of tweet you now xcrete

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[–] Adori@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The bird will live on in cities: skylines 2

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] CYCLR@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No way, it's not even an original logo?

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The old logo and name were a work of marketing art, and still so simple you get the gist of the platform from it. This is just, what the fuck dude.

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[–] hdnsmbt@feddit.de 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

X

Happening now

Join Twitter today.

But how do I join X? You know, the new thing supposedly currently happening? Why would I join boring old twitter now that X is happening?

Genius at work.

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[–] bluesydney@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn’t an “X” how illiterate people signed their name?

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[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago

Buy and then kill one of most recognizable brands of the early 21st century. Elon truly is the genius he and his bootlickers believe him to be.

[–] chrizbie@lemmy.nz 40 points 1 year ago (7 children)

is there a way to block all elon musk and twitter news?

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[–] BustlingChungus@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Guess i’ll now just call it “The company formerly known as Twitter” 🤷🏻‍♂️

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[–] aaron_griffin@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hope they rename Tweets to Xcretes

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[–] WiredSlumber@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we lived in meritocracy, Elon would be living in his moms basement instead of being a billionaire.

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[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tweets are now eXcretions!

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