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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 paulsutter »

I'd like to give a little background. This isn't intended in defense of the move, I share the general discomfort with the change

X.com, a payments company, was Musk's second company formed in 1999. In March 2000 PayPal was formed by the merger X.com with Thiel and Levchin's Continuity. Musk was the initial CEO, but by September 2000 the board replaced Musk with Thiel while Musk was on vacation to Australia. October 2002, eBay purchased PayPal for US$1.5 billion

Musk repurchased the X.com domain from PayPal in 2017

In October 2022, Musk said he will execute the X product plan "with some improvements" which will make Twitter "the most valuable financial institution in the world"

Other notes:

- Musk is a fan of cryptocurrency and Bitcoin

- Starlink is an independent internet backbone that can be access from anywhere on earth

- Starlink plans to separate from SpaceX and IPO. Funds from the IPO is how SpaceX plans to pay for the Mars project

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

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Post by [deleted] »

hourago wrote: post #77
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?

> Verification was bad and now it’s a joke Verification was serviceable, now it is harmful. There is a big difference there. Even if formerly was not perfect.

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

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Post by bko »

pavlov wrote: 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…

> No product improvements, but worse reliability, more spam, and a weird desperate-looking rebrand.

What are you talking about? There has been more change at Twitter in the last year than in the last ten. From editable comments, subscriptions, revenue sharing, blue checkmark for sale, alternative check marks for govts and org, culling of old accounts, API restrictions, forcing people to put parody in acct. I noticed a lot less spam as well. A year and a half ago I remember every top reply being crypto scams from fake vitalik accounts

I get you prob don't like the guy but saying the product is unchanged is just delusional. Maybe some of the changes are worse but there have been a lot of changes

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

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Post by pessimizer »

matsemann wrote: post #4

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.

They can still say "tweet." I don't "goog" on google, I search on google. Also, the site isn't called "tweeter."

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

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Post by simbolit »

simou wrote: post #111
pavlov wrote: 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…

I speculate that musk is trying to build something like weChat for the US

I speculate your username is simou.

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

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Post by actionfromafar »

tgv wrote: post #96

It's not pining, it's passed on! This bird is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late bird! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies! It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an x-bird!

Your train of thoughts run with great speed!

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

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Post by orwin »

To me, even if my Linux now use Wayland, X is my Linux graphic interface. I created a rasterizer for Xserver, but i'm sure anybody who has worked on Linux GUI, mouse, tiling or even keyboard event will be the same. Like how at work they called a project group 'GCC'. This perturb me.

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

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Post by mcv »

brtkdotse wrote: post #100
pavlov wrote: 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…

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.

That Musk's genius acumen were either fake or something that he has since lost, is not an unpopular opinion, but the ruling wisdom here and elsewhere.

It's true, lots of people did fall for his Tony Stark act, but the past year has really opened people's eyes to the fact that it was all narcissism. The signs were there long before, but they were easy to ignore in light of the success of innovative companies like Tesla and SpaceX. But now people are wondering whether the success of those companies was really because of him, or that we was just there to provide the money and bask in the glory.

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