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Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo. Elon Musk, who owns the transformed social media site, began signaling the change early Sunday morning with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, “and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”
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Buy one of the most recognisable brands on the planet and then just toss it overboard and replace it with something totally bland. Only a true business genius could come up with an idea like that.
Yeah, but for a little while at least he’ll have an X that hasn’t left him.
I have a hard time imagining that a letter individually considered, with only minimal stylization, will not have lots of issues for being protected and defended as a trademark.
Also, how do you Google something like this?
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I’ve never been more sure of my decision to move to the fediverse. Y’all still on Twitter should go make a mastodon account
Is there a recognized excellent guide for non-techy-people-moving-from-twitter-to-mastodon?
I don’t twit, but I can see how it would still baffle the average user.
I don’t know about guides, but I do agree it can be a little confusing. Trying to work out what instances are and which one you should join is difficult until you understand the concept and a little about how the tech works - it’s the same with the threadiverse. Realising it’s like email domains is what made it click for me.
And if you personally ever decide to get into Mastodon: you’re on kbin already, which federates with Mastodon and has support for microblogging, so you don’t even need to do anything new - you just need to start using that functionality on kbin!
Yeah I just know a lot of people who barely understand passwords, and moving to a new platform that isn’t exactly the same is going to be a frustrating exercise which ends in them staying on the old platform. It needs to look, act, and feel like twitter in all the ways they’re used to for it to carry the largest group of non-savvy users.
And remember they don’t read manuals or FAQs or anything, so . . maybe a viral tiktok or youtube something, I dunno.
https://joinfediverse.wiki/Getting_started_with_your_Fediverse_account
Also, if they miss quote-tweets there’s Firefish, which is still on ActivityPub and can talk to Mastodon, that has quote-posts.
Link? Google doesn’t seem to know about it and neither do I
Oh, so it’s basically one and the same with Calckey, being the software powering it. Gotcha.
@garrettw87 Calckey rebranded as Firefish last week. And managed a way smoother transition than Xwitter has.
Well, it’s not hard to do lol
There are several out there.
Click X to go to Twitter. No the other X - you just closed the window.
Closing the window seems like a better choice, let’s call it a happy accident.
This seems like an Elon decision that he likes not one that is good for the site.
As opposed to? :D
Musk is one of the biggest cretins I have ever witnessed. Why is he destroying an easily identified, well known brand logo and replacing it with an X?
Because he’s obsessed with bringing back his old brand and turning Twitter into a social instant payment Paypal/Twitter hybrid.
Possibly relevant background: https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wants-to-relive-his-start
‘Shut yo mouth, I’m not “Tweeting” at you, I’m X-ing’
Yeah its such a dumb rebrand and he tried to call Paypal ‘x.com’ too. Musk is as creative as moth shit.
Sir, I represent Moth Shit Local 454 and we take offense to such characterization.
I wonder what the equivalent to a “tweet” is going to be.
They really need to be referred to as xits, with people xitting all over the place. There’s a solid argument to be made that the platform has been full of xit for a while now, actually.
“Sending an X”, which can be abbreviated to “sex.”
He’s already said tweets will now be known as X’s.
Great isn’t it?
“Hey, have you seen Obama’s ex?”
I’m gonna x about this.
Oh jeez
He’s wanted an X company for so long - it feels like something from a teenager desperately trying to be edgy.
He got x.com in 1999, trying to make an online bank. He then bought/merged with a company that was doing an online payment system, envisioning it as part of X, but that got rebranded to PayPal and ended up being spun off separately, ultimately bought by eBay. The online bank thing failed.
I think he’s probably going to try to make Twitter the base for a new online bank thing, but I hope not too many people are dumb enough to trust their money to Musk.
I know these articles get made but they don’t have to get posted.
I’d like to see more news about tech, and less news about social media
Ah yes, rebranding while in the process of losing loads of users because of your own stupidity! That’s sure to go well!
That logo looks an awful lot like the X Window System one.
It’s the X from AGFA Monotype Special Alphabets 4.
https://catalog.monotype.com/font/monotype/special-alphabets/4
perchance is that copyrighted?
Just because. Y’know. That would be high-larious.
Isn’t that the old Xerox logo?
Looks more like x.org’s logo, just without the ring
Has anybody considered that Musk could be engaging in a Trading Places style billionaire competition, wherein the players try and trash their multi-billion dollar tech company faster than the others?
Ok but who are the others like I know about Reddit but who else?
Not sure, the other big companies have lots of individual issues and scandals but Twitter is way ahead, and it seems like there is something new every week. Musk must be winning so far.
I love the chaos.
