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[–] 286 points 3 years ago (7 children)

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…

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  • [–] 82 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    I fully expect people to still be calling it twitter for a long time.

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  • [–] 49 points 3 years ago

    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

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    [–] 269 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    "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.

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    [–] 193 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You'll remember that name, because the moment the site appears, you'll click the little X on the top right corner of your computer screen to get rid of it.

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  • [–] 182 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    It’s called X now.… proceeds to prompt “log in to twitter”.

    This is becoming a branding shit show.

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    [–] 171 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Do the "twitter videos" become "x videos" now?

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  • [–] 95 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 145 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] 124 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    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?

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    [–] 116 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    My contribution to this new logo.

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    [–] 107 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    All of this is just noise designed to keep us talking about the site. You could call it bad advertising. We should stop feeding the troll.

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    [–] 94 points 3 years ago (15 children)

    Go to twitter.com, it goes "X" and then "Sign in to Twitter".

    You missed a spot there Elon. You know what we industry professionals do - it's called a "design process". You:

    • Mock up the way you want it to look
    • Make it look that way
    • Then you push it live.
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    [–] 94 points 3 years ago

    Hahaha. Wow is this ever stupid. And getting stupider by the second.

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  • [–] 93 points 3 years ago

    what a fucking moron

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  • [–] 88 points 3 years ago

    This is important because the thing everyone hated about Twitter was definitely the logo. Should have done this much sooner. High priority stuff.

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  • [–] 78 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    No idea how people are still buying and riding in this guy's cars after seeing how badly he runs a website.

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    [–] 72 points 3 years ago (1 child)
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    [–] 71 points 3 years ago

    Problem. I have gone to Twitter and am clicking the X but it won't close.

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  • [–] 71 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I really want X.org to challenge this move in court and win!

    @mastermind

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  • [–] 39 points 3 years ago

    Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears

    I thought the the new logo was the X11 logo at first, they are bit similar.

    Also a bit ironic seeing as Musk wants Twitter X to be an "everything app", while X11's cruft and bloated featureset have led to it being replaced by Wayland.

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    [–] 65 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    instead of tweet you now xcrete

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    [–] 50 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    The bird will live on in cities: skylines 2

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    [–] 48 points 3 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 44 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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    [–] 43 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    X

    Happening now

    Join Twitter today.

    But how do I join X? You know, the new thing supposedly currently happening? Why would I join boring old twitter now that X is happening?

    Genius at work.

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    [–] 41 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Isn’t an “X” how illiterate people signed their name?

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    [–] 41 points 3 years ago

    Buy and then kill one of most recognizable brands of the early 21st century. Elon truly is the genius he and his bootlickers believe him to be.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Guess i’ll now just call it “The company formerly known as Twitter” 🤷🏻‍♂️

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    [–] 40 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    is there a way to block all elon musk and twitter news?

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    [–] 34 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I hope they rename Tweets to Xcretes

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    [–] 32 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If we lived in meritocracy, Elon would be living in his moms basement instead of being a billionaire.

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    [–] 31 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Tweets are now eXcretions!

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