Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by jcranmer » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 2:46 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #168

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.

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What Musk has changed in the time since he acquired Twitter is the following:

* Changed the moderation policies to allow more speech that had previously been considered impermissible hate speech or violent speech.

* Increased compliance with government censorship requests (which are predominantly of the form "please make this person stop saying bad things about me," and, in many cases, isn't actually permissible under that country's constitution).

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

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Post by heyjamesknight » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 2:47 PM UTC

rpastuszak wrote: post #464

In my opinion the healthiest approach is to not care. Life’s too short. Almost everything else is more important than some rich brain parasite’s midlife crisis dressed up as 5-d chess. The brain parasite feeds on attention whether positive or negative.

Fair. But I've already given up on news, politics, and pop culture. Billionaires playing 5D checkers was my last source of mindless entertainment!

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

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Post by catgary » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 2:47 PM UTC

martin-adams wrote: post #493

For what I can tell, Elon bought Twitter to take it off the stock market, fix it as a private company, creating growth and profitability, and then list it later to make his money back. He sees the X vision to make Twitter become the Everything App, where people turn to it for more than just messaging, but video calls and commerce. Very much like WeChat where it serves as a platform for things like restaurant bookings…

At this point it seems like he’s dismantling Twitter on purpose. I can understand why the Saudis who lent him money would want it gone after the Arab spring.

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

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Post by padolsey » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 2:48 PM UTC

rpastuszak wrote: post #464

In my opinion the healthiest approach is to not care. Life’s too short. Almost everything else is more important than some rich brain parasite’s midlife crisis dressed up as 5-d chess. The brain parasite feeds on attention whether positive or negative.

For myself at least, Twitter has been instrumental in my career, hobbies and friendships. But now, seeing it flounder, and having people shard off to mastadon, bsky, and siloed instances of [insert next federative platform], makes me so very sad. It feels like I’ve lost a key part of my social “surface area”. Things change, I know. What hurts though is that this didn’t need to happen. He ruined something that was, within margins, doing ~alright. It had massive public and social value for many individuals and institutions. With time, of course, we’ll forget he butchered it to death, but for now.. I’m pissed off at this childish fool and all those who enabled him.

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

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Post by datavirtue » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 2:48 PM UTC

opjjf wrote: post #469

Merad wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's hilarious. I honestly wonder if Elon decided to do this change on Friday and had people rushing all weekend to push it out the door.

Do you really have to wonder? I think it's one of his episodes, just like the purchase of Twitter itself, where the too quickly decides on something and pushes it through.

If I was a billionaire I would probably act like a spoiled 8th grader as well.

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

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Post by samstave » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 2:48 PM UTC

laichzeit0 wrote: post #479

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?

I think he actually wanted to change it to Titter and have the bird logo have tits. Seriously.

Is that because the owner of twitter is acting like a 'boob' (colloquial phrase for acting the fool)

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

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Post by heyjamesknight » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 2:49 PM UTC

martin-adams wrote: post #493

For what I can tell, Elon bought Twitter to take it off the stock market, fix it as a private company, creating growth and profitability, and then list it later to make his money back. He sees the X vision to make Twitter become the Everything App, where people turn to it for more than just messaging, but video calls and commerce. Very much like WeChat where it serves as a platform for things like restaurant bookings…

I hear what you're saying, but I don't think this is remotely the right way to go about it.

It would be like Google changing the Google name to Alphabet, or to "A.com" or something. Imagine throwing away "to Google something" in an effort to popularize a big, story-less, meaningless name.

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

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Post by ptkanchi » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 2:50 PM UTC

Musk will do what Musk does, whether or not he will be successful time will tell. But he has proven track record and he has made me a lot of money historically. To all you cringe haters, use your valuable energy else where rather than trashing others online.

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Post by willtemperley » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 2:50 PM UTC

samstave wrote: post #447

mysterydip wrote: post #363

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coincidentally, the end of that sketch is how I feel about the platform now: "I'm not prepared to pursue my line of inquiry any further as I think this is getting too silly."

Personally, I think getting hit in the face with a fish sketch is how Musk is treating Twitter users...

Can we please have a Musk vs Zuck fish slap-down

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

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Post by danans » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 2:51 PM UTC

jiwidi wrote: post #185

It is fun to see the fall of Musk, I don't know anyone who defends him at this point, everyone I know (myself included) have changed how we think of him since he acquired twitter. He has become an egocentric man with need for acceptance.

> He has become an egocentric man with need for acceptance.

Everyone has a need for acceptance and is driven by their ego. I think Musk's issues may lie a bit beyond those.