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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 FreshStart »

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…

It pokes a hole in the yes man bubble. Ironically society Algo bubbles it's leaders since the dawn of time and they can't stand it to rupture. Loyalty and uniform support or else the big boss gets anxiety atracks.At the same time they can not stop lurking near dissent, cause it's the last window to reality they have. Next on mamal brain bugs..

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

mjburgess wrote: post #657
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #638

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Not shown: advertising revenue; debt load; rise of competing services; probability of bankrupsy over time; number of staff; market cap... It might , perhaps, almost be that a google trends graph isn't a reliable measure of business sustainability.

> It might, perhaps, almost be that a google trends graph isn't a reliable measure of business sustainability.

Twitter was only profitable for one year while it was public (2018). It's not like Elon could make that much worse. For what it's worth, he claims (edit: claimed before the advertisers left) it's break-even now.

As for competing services, Facebook has their work cut out for them. Active Daily User count on Threads has gone down 70% from it's bombastic launch. Average user engagement time has also gone down to 4 minutes from 19.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/threads-user-engagement-continu...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/willskipworth/2023/07/21/thread...

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Post by simbolit »

conradfr wrote: post #450
ulfw wrote: post #433

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Doubt anyone who worked on that still is employed there. And even if, they surely weren't asked their opinion, nor informed about the decision.

I guess not. https://twitter.com/martingrasser/status/1683266038602010624

https://nitter.net/martingrasser/status/1683266038602010624 courtesy link for those without an $8 X Blue membership.

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Post by UnixSchizoid »

heyjamesknight wrote: post #500
andsoitis wrote: post #474

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> This, though. This one makes me angry and disappointed. But why are you angry about the rebrand?

Because branding is one of my passions in life. I love good branding. Twitter is fantastic branding. X... is not. Watching Elon destroy the Twitter brand is like watching someone throw orange paint on the Mona Lisa.

There is no way you are serious, it’s just a website. You can’t compare it to one of the most famous works of art.

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Post by _jal »

Capricorn2481 wrote: post #590
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…

> 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…

> It is frustrating to watch people continuously buy into his complete lack of vision or execution.

"Hey, look over there! I'll make the 6 Million Dollar Man!"

I'm pretty sure he just watches 80s TV for vaporware announcement ideas to use when there's bad press to suppress.

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Post by klvino »

The collective sentiment is that using "X" will make searching and referencing the platform and actions in the platform more challenging. "Did you 'X' it?"

Someone in the branding team will make a juvenile tag line of "X marks the spot" and ironically it might catch on for the sake of people calling the platform "the spot". "Did you find 'the spot' for it?"

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Post by lutoma »

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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This is how often people search for "twitter" on Google, not how many people are happily using the platform. Of course there's substantial search volume for a company that is in the headlines every other day for some controversy or another.

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Post by hacoo »

praptak wrote: post #653
AirMax98 wrote: post #598

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> 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. A reminder that Elon had to be sued into buying this company.

So he wanted it to take it off the stock market, fix it, yada yada but then realized this is a bad idea?

He made the offer impulsively without due diligence, then got cold feet when the market dropped. Real genius business moves

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Post by henry2023 »

mgiannopoulos wrote: post #641
AirMax98 wrote: post #598

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> 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. A reminder that Elon had to be sued into buying this company.

He tried to back away when the stock markets fell making financing more difficult/expensive. He wanted a better price. He still wanted to buy it.

What makes you think this? IMO he really wanted to not buy them but was forced to do it.

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

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Post by cutemonster »

andsoitis wrote: post #585
Merad wrote: post #370

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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.

> That's hilarious. You don't have to make change atomically. Eventual consistency is sufficient and very practical.

Combined with "Our [bird] logo is our most recognizable asset. That’s why we’re so protective of it" I think it is indeed a bit funny
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