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2y ago

Twitter is now X

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Looks absolutely well-planned and not rushed at all, perfect alignment of the logo, proper copy. Definitely not just a hasty implementation of a fever dream.
- Uh, Elon, did you just copy the X Window System logo?
  
  He googled "X logo" and picked the first option he didn't recognize
  
  No. It's from Special Alphabets 4. https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1683428660915625989?t=61yiSztLYwYk44zLQ1HVrw&s=19
  
  No, they copied Elon. Law suit coming soon. /s
- It's not even centered?
  
  It's right of the center. So aligned with Elon's politics...
  
  Somehow, this is the bit that offends me most
  
  I'm guessing that skill with Cascading Style Sheets is considered wasted time and effort at X, much like media relations, accessibility, and microservices.
- I thought this was a joke.

They did a great job replacing a highly marketable icon with character, with something that feels like cliche 80's dial-up geocities days that doesn't make sense at all, given the terminology of everything...
In other news, you need to log in to use twitter now? lol. Wow, genius
- Kinda like the names of his kids.

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saw this earlier from an old twitter tab, thought my browser had been hijacked with some extension. what an amateurish logo, looks like what a tiny business puts up on their wordpress when they have no designers & are only making a logo because they have to, definitely not what i'd expect from one of the biggest social media sites in the world. elon has been fixated on the whole x thing for literal decades now & that's the best logo he came up with?
- Supposedly this is a temporary logo until they can create a more permanent one. It literally came from some random that tweeted at him (X'd at him? Lol). He asked for submissions and just chose one, maybe he accidentally laid off all the graphic designers.
  
  Rebranding was so urgent that he didn't wait for a finished logo? I have to admit, I'm baffled. With his other changes I can at least imagine a thought process behind it, this one seems to be something he just woke up and decided to do all of a sudden.
  
  man, the whole elon musk/twitter situation seems less & less real the more it plays out
- what an amateurish logo, looks like what a tiny business puts up on their wordpress when they have no designers & are only making a logo
  To me it looks legitimately confusingly like the xorg logo, which ironically you usually see on a Linux system only when the config to display the correct logo for something is missing or invalid.

I wonder how many (e)X-twitter users there will be after this change.
Even Mastodon's old lingo "toot"ing sounds more trendy than "x"ing a comment.
- "x"ing a comment.
  Excreting.
- If you remember back to your birthday cards as a kid when your loved ones put XOXO in the card... X is kisses.
  So Xing is pronounced Kissing!
  
  Don't tweet it, just exit.
  
  The X isn't kisses. The X stand for closes eyes and the O is an open mouth, hence XO = kiss emote and XOXO is the plural
- Wait...it's not tooting anymore?
  
  I mean I do that daily. Only not on the internets

What's next, Elon? Try to trademark the letter x?
- Space X will rebrand to S
  Tesla To E
  Just so he gets his S E X "joke" on the second try.
  
  AI he wanted to become the CEO of SEX al along. . .
- Rebrand to XXX
  
  Elon can ask his ex-president mate to hook him up with some porn stars for twitter
- Elon on his way to sue X-ray manufacturers.
- Microsoft might have an issue with that.
  
  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology may also take issue.

In my case this translates to "Twitter is now deleted".
- I deleted Twitter years ago.

Apparently Elon has a thing for the letter X. SpaceX, naming his son "X Æ A-12", and now renaming Twitter.
- X.com was the startup Musk (and others) launched in 1999. It merged with another startup to create PayPal in 2000. Musk bought the X.com domain back a few years ago.
  So yea, he's been obsessed with the letter X for a while. Other than SpaceX, there's also Tesla Model X.
  
  Model X is called that because he wanted the models to spell SEXY - but Ford still owns "Model E" so he had to go with S3XY instead.
  
  Who could blame the greatest minds from being entranced by a mysterious "X"?
  
  But SpaceX at least is only short for Space Exploration Technologies Corporation
  
  "Schadenfreude ist die beste Freude" :p
  Facebook/Meta owns the trademark for "X" for use in social networking.
  Microsoft owns the trademark for "X" for use in finance/e-commerce.
  https://themessenger.com/tech/twitters-rebrand-to-x-could-be-a-trademark-nightmare-thanks-to-microsoft
- Can he legally change his son's name to use the new x?
  𝕏 Æ A-𝕏ii
- Apparently according to Elon his wife came up with most of the name

Rename Twitter Blue to X Pass
Rename the Post Tweet textbox to the X Box
- Uploaded videos are now X videos.
  
  what

yeah, well, even the @twitter account now has the X logo.
x.com redirects to twitter.com as well.
Wonder if Businesses will replace the twitter logo in their windows as well.
- At this time, many businesses are indeed probably replacing their twitter logo, with either Mastodon, threads, or nothing as a replacement
- Wonder if Businesses will replace the twitter logo in their windows as well.
  I doubt they will for a while at least. This change was so sudden that a lot of people will just not know what X is. It doesn't look like a social media icon and a lot of people will just not be familiar with it.
  It's also horribly forgettable, even if I did use X regularly, I might just forget what the icon looked like out of context.

He believes they're above regulation, if anyone tries to CTL X it just gets cut from the web.

KILL IT
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!
- RIP AND TEAR

Isn't that the jagex logo?
- I think it looks different enough from the Jagex logo. Though I think the jury is still out on the X Windows System logo

This shit makes Elon look even more like a Bond villain than he already is.
- That's giving him way too much credit. More like an Austin Powers villain, and even that is questionable.
  
  Off brand Scooby-Doo villain.

AKA Twitter is now Fucked?
- Was there a time it wasn't?
  
  There was a time they let people send Tweets through SMS. It almost made sense back then.

Except that Meta (Facebook) has already trademarked X as pertains to social media.

Brilliant.

Der erste Schritt zu West-WeeChat.
- haben die auch ein hässliches logo?

No it isn't.
No... No it's not... But you can imagine what'd be like if it was, right?

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