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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 BrotherBisquick »

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.

> It’s not a popular opinion on this site

Oh come on.

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

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Post by sdfzguf »

dmix wrote: post #330
sdfzguf wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Elob has a fixiation on the letter. As I understand it, he wants to create a 'meta' platform for everything. I think in China such platforms exist (?). It's not to far away to say, that you need a 'meta' name for a platform like that. Probably wants to leave the 'private company' image and try to create an 'institution'. I hope it fails.

WeChat is extremely popular in China and on the surface it's a messaging app but below that is a whole swath of stuff, the most interesting IMO is the decentralized marketplace. My GF's mom is Chinese and she buys tons of stuff like vegetables and housewares from random people through the app. People pay for rent and various bills, you can call their version of Uber, order food etc. If Twitter is going to pull this o…

Thanks for the explanation of the 'direct message' aspect. I didn't know that, but it's interesting

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

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Post by btbuildem »

"x.com is parked free, courtesy of GoDaddy.com"

Wild. I was expecting they'd use the obvious domain name.

Does this rename include retaining the original trademarks (name, "twitter blue", etc etc?) - or can someone now clone the site and restore the original functionality?

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Post by lb4r »

thefz wrote: post #60
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.

Around a decade ago it was considered pretty dumb to spend all your time and money building rockets and electric cars. I sometimes wonder how high the bar is set for 'intelligence.'

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Post by ajmurmann »

netbioserror wrote: post #265
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…

The only thing Twitter has ever had going for it is its brand. The rebranding is weird and indicative of an obsession on Musk's part, but everyone needs to stop pretending that Twitter was anything more than that brand, which could disappear at any moment. It was a financial black hole propped up by frankly stupid amounts of capital injection, made briefly profitable by the black swan of Trump hysteria. I have yet to…

Twitter missed out big time in search. There is so much high-quality content on that platform, yet it's practically undiscoverable. I've way too often spent 15 minutes+ trying to find a tweet I saw at some point. Usually I never find it again. Search is a great save for ad revenue.

Leave Twitter as is otherwise, add search and cut opex. Twitter was great for what it was from a user perspective.

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

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Post by andreygrehov »

The logo is interim, so we should expect a re-design in the near future.

No any other assets have changed, which means the logo change was mainly to highlight on the vision. I actually appreciate the sloppiness. Twitter is now like a dorm startup. Change the logo? Sure,

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Post by noman-land »

mcv wrote: post #292
marcinzm wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>opposed to censorship He's not or rather he's in favor of being able to say anything he wants and shutting up anyone who says what he doesn't like (such as his jet's location or anything he views as woke).

He's opposed to censorship by others, but in favour of censorship by him. Actually, he's also fine with government censorship as long as they're not censoring him or people he likes. Twitter obeying government censorship requests have gone way up since he took over.

Do you have a source for "Twitter obeying government censorship requests have gone way up since he took over"?

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Post by jerjerjer »

tremon wrote: post #374
csomar wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He is not a good engineer or strategist. He is good at marketing though. He got lucky with Space X and the rockets launched. He got a shit-ton of funding for Tesla, the whole business doesn't make sense (competitors can do better with tighter margins) but people threw money at him, so it worked. So he thought he is a genius and can make this one work too. He realized his mistake (tried to get off the deal) but when t…

I just hope Space X survives all this madness Let's hope Musk's vision for SpaceX will not devolve into "Twitter, but in space".

MySpaceX

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

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Post by goodbyesf »

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 don’t really see what Musk is trying to accomplish.

Have you followed his twitter account? Watch his interviews. Read his SEC filings? He's been pretty open about his intentions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Corp.

> Everything he’s done to Twitter carries the foul stench of Death by Private Equity. No product improvements, but worse reliability, more spam

That's not what 'Death by Private Equity' is or looks like.

> and a weird desperate-looking rebrand.

Desperate weird rebrand? The rebrand happens months ago. It's not a new thing.

"The concept for X solidified in October 2022, when Musk tweeted that acquiring Twitter is "an accelerant to creating X, the everything app"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Corp.

Elon is doing what exactly what he said he was going to do but you are twisting into some bizarre 'Death by Private Equity' that doesn't make sense because you don't like elon? Isn't that the gist of it? The anti-elon pr campaign is no different than the anti-zuckerburg campaign.

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