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Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

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Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

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Post by dooraven »

dutchCourage wrote: post #13

What does the path to success look like for "the everything app"? I can't picture it. So far it looks like they're acting like a FAANG in a "fake it til you make it" move to try to attract money. But not only do they not have the scale, Twitter is also losing its place as the reference app for live text updates.

If they can replicate WeChat it might be a good outcome, since WeChat is essentially the everything app for most China

Problem is that the CCP is basically intimately tied to it so WeChat has massive advantages there.

Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

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Post by meibo »

dooraven wrote: post #17
erulabs wrote: post #10

You know, for all the talk about how twitter is going downhill and making stupid decisions, this is the only one so far that really, really, does seems stupid. Verification was bad and now it’s a joke, api rate limits have some possible argument etc - but why in the hell buy a household name just to change it? Why not build X from scratch?

It still has a boatload of users and is still the cultural town square of the tech world. To build X from scratch you'd have to convince people like Marc Andreessen, Paul Graham, a bunch of other VCs etc to move. Changing behaviour is very hard. You'd have to get people to install new apps, get use to new workflows etc and humans are creatures of habit so this is very hard.

My entire tech bubble moved to mastodon and it's been great. No ads, no algorithms. Maybe the VC bubble is just stuck with it because of what it used to be?

Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

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Post by hrtenc »

On the one hand, Musk was always obsessed with X, so the change may be organic.

On the other hand, a name change together with new product announcements is standard for American CEOs if they don't know what to do and have to show to their investors that they are doing something. I believe Musk has a number of Saudi investors.

Let's see what he does. If he goes into streaming like with Tucker Carlson the renaming may be appropriate. Perhaps he'll buy Fox News, who knows.

I have little hopes for the payment processor. I've avoided PayPal and I sure will avoid this one.

Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

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Post by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn »

erulabs wrote: post #10

You know, for all the talk about how twitter is going downhill and making stupid decisions, this is the only one so far that really, really, does seems stupid. Verification was bad and now it’s a joke, api rate limits have some possible argument etc - but why in the hell buy a household name just to change it? Why not build X from scratch?

Apparently tweets will now be called "x's".

Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

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Post by dooraven »

meibo wrote: post #22
dooraven wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It still has a boatload of users and is still the cultural town square of the tech world. To build X from scratch you'd have to convince people like Marc Andreessen, Paul Graham, a bunch of other VCs etc to move. Changing behaviour is very hard. You'd have to get people to install new apps, get use to new workflows etc and humans are creatures of habit so this is very hard.

My entire tech bubble moved to mastodon and it's been great. No ads, no algorithms. Maybe the VC bubble is just stuck with it because of what it used to be?

I'm curious about the composition of your tech bubble - is it programmers / technical folk mostly? cause yeah lots have moved.

The non-technical tech sphere hasn't really moved though, but maybe my circles are quite different to yours.

Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

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Post by lolc »

I embrace this change! Now I might just stop impulsively clicking on links that report on the Twitter trash fire. Because now it's the X trash fire and whatever is X anyway.

I remember when Facebook turned into Meta. Made it much easier to ignore them.

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