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 tootie » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 4:03 PM UTC

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!

Oh man, nostalgia for the early days of the internet when Monty Python quotes were the currency of influence. This one is just impeccably timed.

It's funny because I was just explaining to my kids how we owe the internet definition of "spam" to Monty Python.

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

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Post by _jal » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 4:03 PM UTC

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #638

musha68k wrote: post #602

I don’t remember who stated this but basically there is this thought that Musk was in fact mad about how on Twitter the “common man” could indeed vocally and effectively share their disagreement with his decisions. It also might have been an impulsive decision to become relevant in “new tech” at the same time (why would he care so much about this, boredom?). Ultimately he probably just wanted to get out of that impul…

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So I guess we're back 90s-style business hype? "We're losing money on every click, but will make it up in volume!"

Maybe the lawyers and landlords will take payment in blue checks.

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

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Post by frodowtf » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 4:03 PM UTC

Towaway69 wrote: post #644

I do wonder how much work will go into changing the logo on all the websites that have twitter buttons. The number of WordPress blogs that are now being updated. All because of the whim of one person.

Here is a list of wordpress blogs that will be updated because of this:

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

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Post by Towaway69 » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 4:03 PM UTC

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!

Watch the phoenix raise from the ashes.

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

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Post by 1121redblackgo » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 4:03 PM UTC

catgary wrote: post #503

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.

Occam's Razor might suggest he is simply bad at managing a social media company

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

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Post by simplicio » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 4:04 PM UTC

bleepblop wrote: post #655

simplicio wrote: post #497

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh, I imagine people will just keep using the old nomenclature. Still, while the social network was presuambly the most valuable part of Twitter, gotta figure the brand was a non-trivial part of the 44 billion Musk paid to buy the company. Seems crazy to toss it after a few months. Also, the new brand is bad. if someone told me to check out "x.com", I would assume they were directing me to a porn site. And the logo l…

Reminds me of the OS X logo honestly. Maybe apple has a leg to stand on in terms of trademark? Though I find that highly doubtful due to it being a letter of the alphabet.

Think the x.org foundation has the better claim, since they pronounce the name the same way (think OS X is "OS ten", from what I recall), and their logo is closer.

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

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Post by DoughnutHole » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 4:04 PM UTC

erulabs wrote: post #550

hourago wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

It was a political game for journalists and now it’s officially instead of unofficially meaningless, but it was never serviceable and certainly not “harmful”. Hyperbole is a plague.

It is absolutely harmful for the user experience because it's tied to a boost in the visibility of your tweets. It's essentially made replies a useless avenue for interesting content.

Instead of the top replies to popular posts being tweets that have been boosted by a signal that arguably indicates quality (views, likes, retweets, replies of their own) tweets are boosted by a signal of the opposite - the poster's willingness to pay for visibility of content that couldn't rise to the top on its own merits or that of its poster.

Replies to popular content are now a wasteland for interesting content or discussion unless you've mass-blocked Twitter Blue subscribers - definitely harmful.

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

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Post by sidibe » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 4:04 PM UTC

explaininjs wrote: post #578

Has anything Elon-doomers have said with regard to Twitter ever materialized? I still remember when people were sure it’d blow up if it didn’t have a constant supply of thousands of engineers doing… “stuff”. Are y’all really that naïve about how little most people in tech actually do? Similarly here, are y’all really that naïve to think the branding matters at all compared to the user base?

The naive people are the ones who still believe anything Elon says or that he had any plan when firing those people

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

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Post by Capricorn2481 » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 4:04 PM UTC

finikytou wrote: post #654

Capricorn2481 wrote: post #590

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 This is the exact vacuous nonsense Sam Bankman-Fried was spouting while playing League of Legends in a VC meeting and it made Sequoia Capital wet their pants. It really puts the cart before the horse of "how or why" Twitter should position themselves this way. It is frus…

sam bankman-fried is closer to Musk opponents at every angle you look at. and btw those opponents crowned sam bankman fried while they hate musk in every newspaper you can buy in the US

What opponents? You mean in the tech VC world? Cause the rest of us are disillusioned with both of them.

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

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Post by stormfather » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 4:04 PM UTC

MPSimmons wrote: post #519

heyjamesknight wrote: post #441

I've been mostly ambivalent about the Musk-era at Twitter—mostly because I just don't care enough to have an opinion. This, though. This one makes me angry and disappointed. Twitter has had such a solid brand for so long. It's accomplished things most marketers only dream of: getting a verb like "Tweet" into the standard lexicon is like the pinnacle of branding. Even with all of the issues, "Twitter" and its "Tweets"…

Elon is really, really good at a couple of things: - Identifying inefficiencies in an existing technical solution - Making people do what he wants The things that Elon is really good at don't necessarily translate to great success in a long-term strategic vision. In a pure engineering discipline, like automotive production or aerospace engineering, they're very useful, but neither one of those things necessarily lend…

You're not looking at this with the right perspective. Hyperloop, EV's, solar panels, batteries, huge tunnels, reusable rockets. What's the common thread here?

This is obviously all the technology that Elon thinks is necessary to colonize Mars, and in each case he's doing the best he can to develop it on Earth. However its usefulness on Earth is a secondary concern.