Sometimes I wonder if the Claudian letters stuck and, just like we got X for /ks/ (or /gz/… or /ʃ/… or whatever, this letter is a mess), we also got a Ↄ for /ps/. Maybe modern people would be also spamming Ↄ for this sort of “rule of cool”?
When I first read this post, I thought the CSS had gone wonky and part of the O was cut off.
CSS? You mean ZZↃ?
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This is such a bad move just from an SEO perspectiv
Classic Elon, will tweeting be called sexting and is this the main reason for the name change?
Hmm maybe just exting?
Tweets are now 𝕏crements
I’m thinking Elon doing this crazy rename is a throwback
Sad thing will be he’s probably somehow going to make SpaceX part of this
This is an interesting sabotage to any figures that want to maintain their presence.
If you search for “brandname twitter”, you’re probably going to get what you want. “brandname x” will be a SEO catastrophe.
Maybe they hoped to drive people to navigate through their own site and search facilities, but generally, not being where people are looking is a terrible strategy even on a chain of bad strategies.
A brand that limits users on how many content they can see wouldn’t want them to use their search engine when there is a free one that does it better
my bad, replied to wrong commentCorporations just seem to be getting more and more abstract… Here’s my ✨ amazing ✨ (non-complete) list:
- Oversimplification of logos (*cough* *cough* Firefox killing our fox)
- Corporate Memphis (that big tech, supper flat, indestiguishable art style)
- Websites (everything is either a bento box, image carousel, or loaded up with scroll-based animations – or all of these)
- Names (Facebook is now Meta, Twitter is becoming X)
Corporate Memphis is just the worst. I dunno why but it gives me heavy dystopian connotations.
It kooks like children were forced to design corporate logos in ms paint.
Firefox still has the fox:
I think he mistakenly referred to the firefox group of things like the password manager, the browser still has the fox logo
Yeah, that’s my bad.
The google redesign was the worst. I still haven’t gotten used to it and doubt I ever will.
The new logos are an acessibility nightmare. How does a stupid and unnecessary redesign like this gets approved?
Those logos were so good.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_X
Appropriate that this album is from the late 90s, which is when the X name would have actually been cool.
Oh yeah, that reminds me of IAMX
You must have missed this…
X was ahead of the game, but now everyone is quickly jumping onboard. I’ll be changing my username to ‘s’ as soon as I finish typing this. /s
These design examples are really interesting to me. I would hazard a guess that these types of designs are only popular right now because they are common among rapid design software packages/subscriptions used by companies who don’t want to hire real designers. I don’t think the styles are inherently bad but they certainly are lazy.
Oh no, i love the x-com games. They don’t deserve to be the name sponsor for Elons weird platform.
I think he is referring to the X-Men and Wolverine don’t deserve to be the name sponsor for Elon’s perverted platform.
Come to think of it, will employees be called x-men? Like the Zuck started refering to his employees as meta mates or whatever it was.
Can’t wait for the first X on X by X Æ A-12 about the SpaceX launch
Platforms like Reddit will never die, regardless what they do wrong. Twitter is the proof
Myspace has entered the chat.
The internet hasn’t even been around that long I wonder how long a web platform can even exist? The have certain been generations so far. It feels like we are changing generations now
𝕎𝕆𝕎, 𝕊𝕌𝕔𝕙 𝔸𝕟 𝔼𝕏𝕔𝕀𝕋𝕀𝕟𝔾 𝔸𝕟𝔻 𝕔𝕣𝔼𝔸𝕋𝕀𝕍𝔼 𝕀𝕔𝕆𝕟
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- Bland corporations and mediocre CEO when they need to name something * Slaps an X on it *
Just from an economic standpoint, it’s such a terrible decision. The Twitter bird is iconic to the point where the trademark itself is worth a considerable amount. This is like Disney dumping Mickey Mouse for a side character in The Dark Cauldron.
Elon is breaking up with his X and starting anew
So there was a thing called Unibird? I’m excited to learn more about operating system history.
Yes, with the most toxic users of all time.
I’m starting to think Elon purchased Twitter just to show us how little he cares for money and because he just wanted to destroy it.
It was a Heath Ledger’s Joker move.
Could also just be that Elon is a dumbass
After seeing the rebrand to X and his plans to bind it all, I take it back. Your theory sounds better.
A healthy dose of both
He actually tried backing out of the deal, but it was already too far to do so when he realised it wasn’t a good deal at all…
That and if he wanted to burn it down, he wouldn’t of thrown the fit about threads. Unexpected events doesn’t make something a conspiracy.
He’s talking about only changing the logo and people are all talking about it. It’s free marketing like he does with Tesla.
If the buzz doesn’t translate to (paying) users or ad views he doesn’t profit shit from it.
A good engagement metric is a good thing to show to big advertisers no? At the end of the day these companies couldn’t care less with woke/pc culture, they just want to sell.
Yeah, but if people don’t talk about it on twitter… or X, I suppose… then he has nothing to show for it to their advertisers. “Hey look, we were on TV, and newspapers write articles about us” is not really an argument for twitter anymore, they have been a household name for so long.
The any publicity is good publicity mindset really is gone after you are already a household name. Twitter was already in the news daily, Journalism was replaced with 300 “Celebrity/politician tweeted ______”, and half the time all research and studies being replaced with 10 random tweets. “People are outraged about X, here’s 10 tweets from random people to prove it”.
RIP people searching google for help with “X” on Windows.
