My contribution to this new logo.
I sure everyone will steal this and posted it on X as if they thought of it.
I’m sure it’s not a unique idea. Lots of really smart and clever people think like me after all :D
Funnily enough I saw this exact images on multiple places outside of Lemmy, including on Twitter.
Even with the tongue… or just the bid and X cause I’ve seen hundreds of the bird with X eye but not any other ones with the tongue sticking out.
Hahaha. Wow is this ever stupid. And getting stupider by the second.
Brilliant move by Musk. ‘X’ has long been identified as the universal symbol for closing out of an application. Hopefully with this move even more people will permanently close out of Twitter and move on so I don’t have to read so many dumb news stories where the lazy journalist uses a few random tweets as their “source” for the headline.
Let’s also not forget it’s adult connotations, things are rated “X” for a reason 😅
Can’t wait till Premium X membership is known as “XXX Members”.
Then Elon’s handle changes to “Professor”
Also, if anybody here has seen Foodfight!, maybe I’m not the only one who thinks of Brand X
Brand X has been associated with generic off-brand for a long long time.
Yes, but I’m talking about a very specific Brand X.
It’s funny you should say that because I just deactivated my Twitter account. I never used it, and now I never will use it. Lemmy > Everything.
That’s hilarious. And hopefully!
“We’re expect folks will go along and stop referring to ‘tweeting’ and go with the more brand appropriate term of ‘x-creting’ from now on.” Musk said before adding, "‘X-cretions’ and ‘x-creted’ are encouraged too.
The fact that I don’t know if this is real or a joke tells you how ridiculous Musk has become.
idk if you came up with this but I expect to see this joke a bunch more in the coming days lol
I can’t imagine that others haven’t had the same thought, but I had not seen anything previously. It’s low hanging fruit, but you take what you can get!
Does that make the people on X x-crements?
I mean…
This is important because the thing everyone hated about Twitter was definitely the logo. Should have done this much sooner. High priority stuff.
what a fucking moron
Such a genuinely shit name.
I’m not even one of the rabid Musk haters, but it’s just an absolutely dreadful name that a 10 year old thinks is cool…
I fully expect people to still be calling it twitter for a long time.
I call it “irrelevant.”
I wish…
I call meta still facebook. fuck this rebranding bullshit to disssociate with shittyness
Meta/Facebook and Google/Alphabet are very different from Twitter/X. The first two created parent companies under which their large brand names still exist, but are now managed along with their other properties (Instagram,
Snapchat, Waymo, Deepmind, etc.) Musk, meanwhile, is trying to completely burn down the Twitter brand for some incomprehensible reason.Snapchat isn’t owned by meta btw
That’s because it’s an established brand with a huge value to it. Everyone knows twitter. Only an idiot would throw that away.
Musk has been on a roll of bad decisions since he first offered to buy Twitter lmao
He was making terrible decisions way before that.
Yes but Twitter is a 44 billion dollar mistake
You make a very good and very expensive point.
Yeah just like Meta will allways be Facebook for me
I bet you all next he will rebrand some of his other companies as ‘S’ (SpaceX?) and ‘E’ (??) just to be CEO of SEX. This man is so extremely childish.
He already has done it for Tesla models: S, 3, X, Y
You just nailed Elons personality.
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How in the world are there so many here who get that joke?
I guess lemmy is a seriously skewed part of the population. Which is cool I guess. ;)
instead of tweet you now xcrete
Pretty sure that was always the case
Do the “twitter videos” become “x videos” now?
They suspended xvideos.com’s account and the rumor is they are considering calling the videos on their platform xvideos… I REALLY REALLY want this to happen.
I want to see the ensuing trademark lawsuit from the owners of xvideo.com
Don’t bet on it. Twitter doesn’t have to host anyone it doesn’t want. TOS and all that.
They don’t have to host them but they can’t infringe on their name.
Guess it’s a moot point because as far as I know they didn’t end up using that name for their videos.
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Search results are gonna be buggered six ways from Sunday
Going to be some still competition for that trademark
The bird will live on in cities: skylines 2
Yep, now Chirper is closer to Twitter than Twitter is.
What a world…
Update: Elon Musk to sue Cities Skylines unless they change Chirper to “Y Bird” and give him a cameo.
I would go from hyped to boycott so fucking fast, don’t do that to me
The one about the cat being rescued from a tree always made me smile.
It’s called X now.… proceeds to prompt “log in to twitter”.
This is becoming a branding shit show.
Musk doesn’t seem to understand the concept of a developmental environment prior to a production launch.
TDD: Tantrum Driven Development
It’s ok, at least it’s just a website. Would be different if he was designing something like… oh idk… a car that people trust with their lives to drive itself. Or even a massive rocket carrying astronauts and valuable cargo.
Don’t think musk designs the rockets that much, from what I’ve heard musk is basically just the figurehead
Musk doesn’t seem to understand
And the tweet button is still right there in blue.
Maybe he’s hoping that when people click X to close the ads, he’ll get paid.
No way, it’s not even an original logo?
He crowdsourced the thing with like less than a day to review.
And completely ignored the crowdsourced contributions in favor of the Most. Generic. Logo. Ever.
I mean, if you look at it and squint hard, it kind of looks like a bird in flight with its wings spread? But hardly immediately recognizable, much less iconic.
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The old logo and name were a work of marketing art, and still so simple you get the gist of the platform from it. This is just, what the fuck dude.
It was a whole perfect package the name, nomenclature, logo, icon, and especially the notification sound all useless.
Imaging having that and pissing on it so you can relive your startup days as the big boss.
Next week: the Tweet sound is removed, replaced by Elon saying “I have sex” by default.
He rip out not only the great marketing artifact but also the users’ sentiment from seeing the bird logo reminding them of how long they’ve used the site which is now shockingly changing.
So let me get this straight. Musk bought Twitter for 44 billion, fired most of the staff, destroyed bunch of features and functionality, scared advertisers away and now changed the brand’s name. Wouldn’t it be less hassle to just start a platform and pay people $100 each as a sign up bonus?
That’s absurd! Assuming 4 billion in actual startup costs, at the purchase price they could only afford to do that for…
four hundred million people. LOL.
Jesus this was a dumb transaction.
Just for perspective, the U.S. population is 300 million. Add on the 67 million population of the UK and you still have plenty of change left over.
Jesus, this was a stupid decision.
Yup. Four hundred million is more than the entire daily userbase of twitter.
Damn, this comment thread was a level of enlightenment I was not expecting this morning 🤯
There are currently ~366 million Twitter users.
If Musk paid each person $100 to start using “X” instead, he’d spend $36.6 billion, leaving him with $7.4 billion to actually build the rest of the website and infrastructure.
Yup, he’s stupid.
He could also pay his rent and other bills.
Copying my comment from another thread:
But they’re not just re-branding. Twitter is now under some kind of corporate shell company. I haven’t seen much coverage of that, but my suspicion is that it’s intended to act as some kind of insulator to contain Twitter’s debts.
Like when they break a company into pieces and put everyone’s debts and no assets into a single part and then that part declares bankruptcy and all the debt magically goes away, leaving everything else with lots of assets and no debts and a future that looks really rosy. I can’t help but think that this is something similar to that.
