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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…

"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.

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.

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

This is becoming a branding shit show.

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

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.

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?

My contribution to this new logo.

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.

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

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.

what a fucking moron

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

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

Time to switch to Wayland

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

@mastermind

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

instead of tweet you now xcrete

The bird will live on in cities: skylines 2

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I hope they rename Tweets to Xcretes

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

Tweets are now eXcretions!

Ribbit