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

#101

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

> 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.

Because the sell the whole time was to let people roleplay as famous people. And that would have worked a bit more if the actual celebrities didn't immediately respond with "ew, no"

The features are ... pretty crummy. Longform tweets nobody wants to read, up to what ... 40 hour videos that nobody will watch. A basic functionality like edit?

And now the funniest one: getting paid to tweet, which the biggest accounts on Twitter got joke RPM to entice people to sign up for blue. I feel really bad for anyone who thinks they're going to make their $8 back.

He can't get any of this right and he seriously is already talking about becoming a bank or payment system? Good luck.

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

#102

Meanwhile, the x.com domain seems to be somewhat shambolic. As I write this, it hits a Godaddy parking page. According to this[0] tweet[1], it's been a Godaddy site, a dead link, a redirect, and now a godaddy site again. Shambles. [0] https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1683289016723202050 [1] No, I'm not calling them X's. That name is saved for those who broke my heart, made me cry, and left me binge watching No…

It's going to the Wikipedia page about x.com for me. EDIT: oh wait my browser did that. X.com now goes to Twitter. So now a sizeable portion of people who try to go to x.com is going to go to the Wikipedia page for x.com I guess.

Also the Twitter sign-in page says "X - Sign into Twitter".

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

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I don’t really see what Musk is trying to accomplish. Everything he’s done to Twitter carries the foul stench of Death by Private Equity. No product improvements, but worse reliability, more spam, and a weird desperate-looking rebrand. This is what it looks like when inept MBAs try to squeeze some more life out of a dying platform. The strange thing here is that Musk’s acquisition was supposed to be the exact opposit…

It’s not a popular opinion on this site, and I’m probably going to be savagely downvoted, but whatever talent Musk had for business was eroded at least a decade ago by him surrounding himself with ego-stroking yes men. He drank his own cool aid.

I don't think he had any talent, he just got lucky and companies insulated themselves from him. With Twitter we're seeing what happens when companies don't insulate themselves from him.

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

#104
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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…

This feels like a lot of decisions of Musk w.r.t. Twitter have been, impulsive and hastily implemented.

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

#105

Elon Musk is addicted to the messaging app formerly known as Twitter. Elon Musk seems to believe everyone else is addicted to the same degree. Everything he does with twitter only makes sense to me given the assumption that all users have to stay and they can not possibly leave. How many people are like "I don't want an everything app, I just wanna read silly tweets"? This demographic apparently doesn't exist in his…

> the messaging app formerly known as Twitter. I like that. Permission to re-use?

Lol. As if that was copyrightable.

Of course, go wild.

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

#106

Twitter has managed to get so many words to be common. Like it's a "tweet", not "a post on facebook". It's a "retweet" or "quote tweet", not "something I shared on facebook". Why throw all this deep brand recognition away? It's like people say "google it", and google suddenly changing the name of their search.

There are probably hundreds of thousands (millions?) of websites out there that have the twitter bird logo at the bottom either to direct link people to share the article or maybe a link to the profile of the author or whatever.

They are never going to change to the X logo.

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

#107
post #85

I don’t really see what Musk is trying to accomplish. Everything he’s done to Twitter carries the foul stench of Death by Private Equity. No product improvements, but worse reliability, more spam, and a weird desperate-looking rebrand. This is what it looks like when inept MBAs try to squeeze some more life out of a dying platform. The strange thing here is that Musk’s acquisition was supposed to be the exact opposit…

Theories about a global service app ala Chinese Platforms... Would make sense to try to recover losses by more in-app sales.

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

#109
I hope that this will push government officials and structures to set up mastodon instances. Like one for the government where each agency has an account.

Europe did this [0] and I find that it's a very good idea to have control over communication (plus since it's open anyone can do what they want with the data)

[0] https://social.network.europa.eu/

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

#110
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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…

If he goes into streaming, will the platform be called XVideos?

As another wag put it "Cancelling my X Blue subscription before my wife sees it on my credit card statement"

Something as generic is X is bad for an "everything platform", and something where lots of the existing use has specific connotations is worse

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