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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 reisse »

sschueller wrote: post #8

This man is burning anything that had any value at Twitter. From an extremely valuable list of verified users to the name which is even used as a verb. There is absolutely no reason to rename Twitter. The name isn't even that stained compared to like Comcast or what ever the name was of that phone company in the 90s that sucked so bad it was renamed.

> From an extremely valuable list of verified users

Was it extremely valuable? I know a lot of people (myself included) viewed blue checkmarks as a "company PR account/mass-media journalist/celebrity account maintained by SMM" sign. The most interesting people I followed on Twitter were not verified.

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

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Post by gloryjulio »

simbolit wrote: post #11

I initially thought buying twitter was about converting massively overvalued TSLA stock into only somewhat overvalued TWTR stock. I now think I was wrong.

Another stupid play is to merge verification with membership. I thought he would add a new membership tier along blue check mark to have some extra income. Instead he actually chose the bizarre route and sabotaged the verification.

Maybe he is really being paid by the Saudis to intentionally ruin Twitter to reduce the freedom of speech

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

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Post by jacquesm »

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?

> this is the only one so far that really, really, does seems stupid.

To you.

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

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Post by gonzo41 »

cbovis wrote: post #47

What a bizarre brand launch... * Primary logo in top left of web changed to X * Favicon still old Twitter logo * Search bar says "Search Twitter" * Meta title still says Twitter * Tweet terminology still in use * Footer updated to © 2023 X Corp. * Dialog for upgrading to Twitter Blue now has a blue X logo but copy refers to Twitter Blue * Communities still called Twitter Communities What's the plan here and why so in…

I agree, its messy. But in a week, it'll all be X, and we won't care. However, I do strongly feel this is a big mistake and will act as a jarring moment for a lot of people who will not want a 'new' thing. This may be the move that spikes the platform as the relevance of X becomes less and less because now it's history is disjoint from twitter and it's relevance to current events over the last 20 years.

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

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

oxfordmale wrote: post #19
ekianjo wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

when a word becomes too common it risks losing its trademark though

Good luck trade marking X

Or the logo, which is a unicode character: 𝕏 https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F

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

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Post by threeseed »

dooraven wrote: post #21
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.

This is what he's been envisioning since back in the PayPal days.

The problem for Musk is that the US, EU, UK, AU etc are not remotely interested in a mainstream commerce platform that takes a lax approach to KYC/AML.

And despite Musk's delusions the "blue tick" program is not a suitable verification foundation to build payments on top of.

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

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Post by jacquesm »

Quinzel wrote: post #16

It seems like Elon Musk has a vision of creating a platform business model that encompasses all his business endeavors and more. I don’t like Twitter, nor do I like Elon Musk, but it seems clear to me that he has a strategic plan. I doubt he gives two shits about what Twitter is or was - when he bought Twitter he acquired a lot of talent, and a place to start to launch his platform - of which he envisions the world b…

> it seems clear to me that he has a strategic plan

I highly doubt that because he originally didn't want to buy the thing in the first place. He's just making one hail Mary pass after the next to try to get it to turn a profit and failing so his last card - the one he always seems to play at some point - is to set it up for acquisition by one of his other companies to bail himself out.

That may work, or it won't, in which case Twitter (sorry, 'x') may well end up taking the rest of his empire with it.

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

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Post by thefz »

sschueller wrote: post #8

This man is burning anything that had any value at Twitter. From an extremely valuable list of verified users to the name which is even used as a verb. There is absolutely no reason to rename Twitter. The name isn't even that stained compared to like Comcast or what ever the name was of that phone company in the 90s that sucked so bad it was renamed.

It is wrong to conflate economic success with intelligence.
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