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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 lostlogin »

zpeti wrote: post #759
tootie wrote: post #591

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you ever ask the question "Is this a dumb move or 4D chess?" the answer is literally always "dumb move".

Said everyone about spacex and Tesla too. That doesn’t mean this twitter thing is going to succeed, but your always “dumb move” comment is not very well founded based on musks history. The entire tone of voice of this thread is exactly what people said about Tesla 5 years ago and why so many were shorting it. Turns out - that was a bad move.

Let’s see, 5 years from now maybe you can Xeet us about how right you are.

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Post by poisonarena »

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"…

Twitter? Whats that? You mean 𝕏? I honestly don't get all the hate for it, if you don't like it you dont have to xeet, nobody is forcing you rexeet Elon Musk, dont want to use 𝕏 don't use it!

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

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Post by joshmanders »

WeylandYutani wrote: post #810
alexpotato wrote: post #687

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> 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.

This is my problem with Twitter. It's not meant for serious discussion. We have blogs for that. Nobody wants to read it for an interesting article about geopolitics- foreignaffairs.com already exists. Know your audience.

> It's not meant for serious discussion.

What exactly is it meant for then if not serious discussion?

> We have blogs for that.

You mean the one sided discussions? Also not every thought is worthy of a blog post, but is worthy of being put out there.

> Nobody wants to read it for an interesting article about geopolitics- foreignaffairs.com already exists

Geopolitics isn't the only thing longer convos are for... The problem with pre-Musk/4000 char limit Twitter is that nuances are heavily lost because of the lack of characters and that nobody wants to do thread storms.

> Know your audience.

Ironic.

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Post by CaptainZapp »

Balgair wrote: post #781
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…

> (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 don't think it's OK to remotely analyze a mental illness of another person.

I think that Mr. Musk is an undiluted asshole and one of the worst douchebags to ever grace our planet, which he has proven again and again.

But analyzing his mental condition is sure as shit not up to me or to anybody else.

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Post by qwertox »

danShumway wrote: post #456

Y'all are trying to make fun of this, but it's really a brilliant tactical move. Think about it; Musk desperately needs to flip Twitter, and this branding change both makes the site much more attractive for a potential buyout from a porn company, and also lowers the valuation of Twitter even further to the point where it's probably within range for a decently sized porn company to buy.

Why would a porn company buy a social network which will immediately lose most of its users (think journalists, politicians, NASA and the like)?

He could have sold x.com for a huge amount or built his own OnlyFans.

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

bleepblop wrote: post #655
simplicio wrote: post #497

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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.

OS X was never an X it was a roman numeral 10 and when used on its own it was mostly serif.

Pretty sure apples own presentations used “OS Ten” not “OS Ecks”

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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Post by numpad0 »

jmondi wrote: post #649
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #638

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Aah yes, everyone knows that google trends is the best way to judge the health of a business.

That's the highest resolution picture that the bossman understands perhaps lol

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Post by explaininjs »

sidibe wrote: post #668
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

Like when he said he’d change it to X and did? And the plan that involved firing the majority of the company and proceeding to develop faster than ever before? K.

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Post by superdug »

justo-rivera wrote: post #824
Balgair wrote: post #781

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> (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…

In what sense is bipolar disorder worse than extreme unreflected and unchecked ego?

What I believe OP was getting at is that while he’s being an asshole he’s completely tormented by his own mind not allowing him empathy or understanding beyond his suffering. Since he, like so many with bipolar disorder (myself included) is that the cycle of suffering and abhorrent behavior will continue until he can accept that his brain will not let him out of torment long enough to see how his infliction is broadcast outward and who it really effects. Now combine that with the world’s biggest microphone being used by a man with enough means that it will be dumb luck for him to realize it as he has no consequences for his actions. It’s not impossible to make that realization on your own and it’s even harder to make it stick without medication to make your brain break out of a cycle that you have no more control over than anyone else, and it’s your own mind doing it to you.
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