Twitter logo now copies X Windows system logo, public left gawping
Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
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#812Does anyone remember the original bird logo, which was literally from iStockphoto IIRC?
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#813Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine descending into practically fascism because someone doesn't agree with your political candidate of choice. Where were these warnings when Twitter was full of spam bots, got hacked by a 17 year old, mass censoring, etc?
Did you reply to the wrong comment? Seems like a bunch of non sequitors
The person I replied to wants the state to forcefully remove Elon Musk from the companies he currently runs because of software decisions he's making.
Not sure if the person 'embarrassed' to drive a Tesla has looked into the history of other car companies.
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#814The Brand Toolkit page needs updating - https://about.twitter.com/en/who-we-are/brand-toolkit Not only does it still have the bird it says "Our logo is our most recognizable asset. That’s why we’re so protective of it. Take a moment to think about how you apply it and take a read of our Brand Guidelines for examples of how we like you to use it."
Holy shit I did a literal spit take when I read that. Way too funny.
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#815Elon's acquisition of Twitter is a gift that just keeps on giving. At this point, considering the social polarization it brought, destroying Twitter for good would be an immense service to humanity, and Musk is doing exactly that, even if unwillingly.
Its interesting given that it would probably be easier to just hire a few competent managers to steer Twitter into profitability rather than Musk actively managing Twitter into the ground.
That would be better for twitter and Elon Musk. But it's better for the rest of us if he crashes and burns the company.
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#816Very interesting no one had an issue with twitter when they were mass censoring (even the sitting president of the united states!), got hacked by a 17 year old to have all types of celebrities and politicians tweet a bitcoin scam, were chock full of scam bots, etc. Twitter today is freer and on the path towards improvement, much like the original twitter. Who remembers the Iran revolution and the "stop or i'll tweet"…
Yeah, it's so free the word CIS is considered hate speech. It's so free you can't see tweets without logging in. It's so free Elon gave insider information to hand selected journalists to build a misleading narrative. Maximum freedom for sure. We all know why certain people seem to like Musk, they just won't admit it because they know the reasons make them look bad. Also, there are still scams, still fake accounts, s…
I do wish Elon fulfilled his promise of 'free speech absolutism', but unfortunately it's not possible with advertising today. The problem is we have no choice here given the censorship of other social media companies so anything is better than what we had before.
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#817I 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…
> (why would he care so much about this, boredom?) > due to extreme unreflected and unchecked ego Unfortunately, I think it's worse than that. My belief is that it's manic phases caused by bipolar disorder. If you squint and chart these 'manic' decisions, it seems to be about every 4-5 months. In between he'll often (though not always) post some self-reflective and more 'down' things and be generally more quiet (reme…
I'm not sure when in the last 9 months since he bought Twitter you found Elon reflective and "down". It's been lunacy after lunacy every single week.
Does it seem like manic? Yes. But when this behavior is persistent, not sure bipolar is the diagnosis per se.
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#818It's wild how much emotion and turmoil freaking twitter changing their freaking logo causes for people. An article about the DEA trying to end end-to-end encryption has one quarter the comments.
fascinating isn't it. Everyday I have thoughts like this. Why does X get people so riled up, when the real shit (planet heating, finite resources, plastics pollution, corrupt/broken western democratic systems, who owns your poop, etc etc)
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#819Re: Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
#820I 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…
> Lastly he probably also had/has some WeChat ambitions. Years ago I remember reading something about the Chinese microblogging sites and it was mentioned "these sites also have a character limits. However, b/c in Chinese a character can be an entire word, the 'word limits' are much longer." Moving to the 4000 character limit feels very much a response to the above.
I sure hope it wasn't a response to that! Twitter dealt with that in 2017!
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2017/Giving-yo...
They made Unicode code points below U+1100 count as 1/280 of the character limit, and code points above it count as 1/140 of the character limit.