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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 andreygrehov »

meibo wrote: post #22
dooraven wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It still has a boatload of users and is still the cultural town square of the tech world. To build X from scratch you'd have to convince people like Marc Andreessen, Paul Graham, a bunch of other VCs etc to move. Changing behaviour is very hard. You'd have to get people to install new apps, get use to new workflows etc and humans are creatures of habit so this is very hard.

My entire tech bubble moved to mastodon and it's been great. No ads, no algorithms. Maybe the VC bubble is just stuck with it because of what it used to be?

How do I, as an investor, make money with mastodon?

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

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Post by tibbydudeza »

dooraven wrote: post #21
dutchCourage wrote: post #13

What does the path to success look like for "the everything app"? I can't picture it. So far it looks like they're acting like a FAANG in a "fake it til you make it" move to try to attract money. But not only do they not have the scale, Twitter is also losing its place as the reference app for live text updates.

If they can replicate WeChat it might be a good outcome, since WeChat is essentially the everything app for most China Problem is that the CCP is basically intimately tied to it so WeChat has massive advantages there.

There is a reason why Facebook/Whatsapp/Instagram is not in one app called Meta. It does not work too well with western audiences - cluttered and too busy mobile apps do not succeed.

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

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Post by TillE »

gonzo41 wrote: post #37
matsemann wrote: post #4

Twitter has managed to get so many words to be common. Like it's a "tweet", not "a post on facebook". It's a "retweet" or "quote tweet", not "something I shared on facebook". Why throw all this deep brand recognition away? It's like people say "google it", and google suddenly changing the name of their search.

Owners are kinda crazy. Go to relentless.com. It's the preferred name for amazon. Bezos got talked down from the ledge by his partners at he time. the best meme I have seen so far, is musk has out Gavin Belson'ed, Gavin Belson.

That was his idea for the name at the start though, rather than a rebrand.

I think "Relentless" isn't terrible, but "Amazon" is vastly better for international branding.

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

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Post by okeuro49 »

tentacleuno wrote: post #68
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.

I think Elon is a bit misguided, especially in his business ventures in the UK. For instance, it seems egregious to most people that Elon expects people to pay £100 a year for a social media site in the midst of a Cost of Living crisis. Personally, I don't see what the hype is around Elon. I think he's done good things, but in other ways he's not a very good businessman.

> expects people to pay £100 a year for a social media site in the midst of a Cost of Living crisis.

Twitter blue is an optional premium service as far as I know.

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

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Post by dotcoma »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #89
dotcoma wrote: post #2

A case study in brandicide.

This is much worse that the blandification of the Slack logo. Actually the X logo itself is good on it's own terms. And would be great for a newcomer startup, but not for Twitter. Twitter is the household name. This looks like a midlife crisis.

Agree.

Not to mention that we speak of "tweets" and "retweets", not "mini-posts on Twitter" and "shares on Twitter"...

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

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Post by tgv »

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!

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

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Post by prox »

simbolit wrote: post #20
dotcoma wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was my thinking, too. What do you think now ?

He is even stupider and has even less impulse control than I thought.

I wonder if it’s something that happened as years rolled on. He didn’t seem to be very contrarian or even social say over a decade ago.

Elon is self described with Aspergers Syndrome. This is from an interview :

“Other features of Asperger's syndrome include difficulty interacting with peers, inappropriate social or emotional behavior, and engaging in repetitive routines. Both children and adults with Asperger's syndrome are at an increased risk for depression, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), mood and anxiety disorders, and other mental health disorders.”

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

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Post by physicles »

tentacleuno wrote: post #68
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.

I think Elon is a bit misguided, especially in his business ventures in the UK. For instance, it seems egregious to most people that Elon expects people to pay £100 a year for a social media site in the midst of a Cost of Living crisis. Personally, I don't see what the hype is around Elon. I think he's done good things, but in other ways he's not a very good businessman.

He did revolutionize the space launch services industry. And jump started the transition to electric cars.

Doesn’t seem to know anything about tech though. And he’s burned his reputation to the ground this last year.

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

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Post by brtkdotse »

pavlov wrote: post #85

I don’t really see what Musk is trying to accomplish. Everything he’s done to Twitter carries the foul stench of Death by Private Equity. No product improvements, but worse reliability, more spam, and a weird desperate-looking rebrand. This is what it looks like when inept MBAs try to squeeze some more life out of a dying platform. The strange thing here is that Musk’s acquisition was supposed to be the exact opposit…

It’s not a popular opinion on this site, and I’m probably going to be savagely downvoted, but whatever talent Musk had for business was eroded at least a decade ago by him surrounding himself with ego-stroking yes men.

He drank his own cool aid.

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