Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

Post by coldtea » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 10:26 PM UTC

Applejinx wrote: post #896

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"…

The reason I keep saying 'ketamine is a hell of a drug' is, foolish doesn't adequately describe what's happening. The wealthiest huckster in the whole entire world has done so many horse tranquilizers as psychedelics that something broke and he is flipping out and wielding his power in unaccountable ways, like any billionaire, but in obvious madness. He broke. But nobody can do a thing to help, because billionaires a…

Post by burnte » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 10:27 PM UTC

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…

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 10:33 PM UTC

cubefox wrote: post #56

zgluck wrote: post #9

Not X, 𝕏. (Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X, U+1D54F)

Interesting. This raises the further question: Which Unicode characters are allowed in company names? Surely it's not just the Latin alphabet.

Post by vitorgrs » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 10:46 PM UTC

dmix wrote: post #330

sdfzguf wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Elob has a fixiation on the letter. As I understand it, he wants to create a 'meta' platform for everything. I think in China such platforms exist (?). It's not to far away to say, that you need a 'meta' name for a platform like that. Probably wants to leave the 'private company' image and try to create an 'institution'. I hope it fails.

WeChat is extremely popular in China and on the surface it's a messaging app but below that is a whole swath of stuff, the most interesting IMO is the decentralized marketplace. My GF's mom is Chinese and she buys tons of stuff like vegetables and housewares from random people through the app. People pay for rent and various bills, you can call their version of Uber, order food etc. If Twitter is going to pull this o…

Post by tamrix » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 10:52 PM UTC

DrBazza wrote: post #426

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.

The sheer genius of throwing away the brand of one of a handful of companies that has a phrase that has entered common parlance: hoover it up, google it, and tweet it. Feels like Musk has caught some of the PriceWaterhouseCoopers 'Introducing Monday' nonsense. At least we could attribute that to the dotcom madness.