This has been his plan since a long time ago, he's just following up on it now https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/05/tech/everything-app-x-musk-china-wechat-learnings-intl-hnk/index.html
What will happen next?! The Logo is really similar to x.org or their X Window System.
It really isn't. It's an X. There's not much to it.
It's a shit name, it's a shit logo, it's a shit platform. But it's far from a copyright infringement. Especially because no-one will confuse the cesspool named Twitter X with a window manager for unix systems
Twitter X doesn't have enough Xs in it. I vote to rename Twitter X to T Wixxer, at least here in Germany.
okay but why in the world would he rename it, what could he possibly gain from doing it? Twitter was going to die either ways but it seems Elon is getting impatient and wants to see it dead sooner
He wants to transform it into the "Everything" app. That's why he's pushing hard on the video platform side of things.
Looks like the logo for a hair salon or fashion magazine or something lol
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It’s one of the hollow letters used in math.
Basically what I’m saying is math should sue him.
This is wild, a significant percentage of Twitter's value was its brand, and this guy has just slapped an X on it and changed the colour scheme to dark mode. Do people actually still use Twitter?
The brand name and the logo were literally the only thing Musk had left from his purchase.
Makes sense that he's out to destroy those as well.
The weird thing is that x.com sometimes loads into Twitter and sometimes doesn't, which shows that there's really no management in all of this.
now i get where the name spacex comes from. it's the space version of musk's x company...
Even the new name implementation feels half-assed. It still says Twitter everywhere you go on the website in words. Like why not wait until you’re fully ready to make the change?
How am I supposed to make a filter to block "X"? I know Lemmy doesn't support it yet but on Boost I could add filters to block certain posts with words/names.
I'm hoping that Boost for Lemmy will have this feature but my first question still stands. Blocking Twitter was easy because it was specific. How am I supposed to block a letter? I
Why replace twitter though? Do you what facebook did with threads. Launch a new app and allow existing twitter users to automatically onboard.
People hate having major changes hoisted on them. See reddit.
I like how the suggestion in the comments is 10x better and more effective than what the multi billion dollar company went for
TWITTER IS NOW X.ORG
THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP LADS
ITS HAPPENING
This seems like it's a ploy just to get attention and traffic. Seems that it's working as I'm seeing it in all the news sites.
Whoever is still there is going to call a tweet a tweet and X, Twitter.
Damn, their brand guidelines still uses the old logo, his designers probably didn't have a say.
I don't understand the reason behind this. The consistency is all over the place behind the brand. Is this a lead-in into a larger idea? that will "connect all the dots". Or are these literally off the cuff changes? The creator payout for ads, seems like the only positive update that made sense recently, along with subscriptions, although those didn't really seem to affect the smaller accounts with <100k followers etc.
Just wait for Musky to try and start suing people for using anything with "X" in the title/name.
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